Presidency Encourages Student Leaders On Nation-building

The Presidency has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu believes successful the power, resilience, and creativity of the Nigerian students and urged pupil national leaders to beryllium liable partners successful nation-building.

The elder peculiar advisers to the President connected Students Engagement, Hon. Sunday Asefon spoke astatine the Renewed Hope Student Leaders Engagement successful Kebbi State, wherever helium reaffirmed committedness of President Tinubu to payment of students and betterment successful prime of acquisition successful the country.

The gathering brought unneurotic pupil leaders crossed the 7 states of the North West namely; Jigawa State, Kaduna State, Kano State, Katsina State, Kebbi State, Sokoto State, and Zamfara State.

Asefon noted that the gathering was not conscionable different gathering but a level cautiously designed to bring authorities person to the students and youths of Nigeria.

He emphasised that nether the visionary enactment of President Tinubu the medication remains committed to ensuring that the programmes and policies successful the acquisition and younker assemblage are not lone created successful Abuja, but are good disseminated and brought straight to the grassroots wherever they substance most, the campuses, lecture halls, and communities wherever Nigerian students unrecorded and thrive.

One of specified bold and transformative initiatives rolled retired by Tinubu medication is the motorboat of Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) to marque acquisition accessible and affordable to each Nigerians irrespective of background.

As of 21st August 2025, implicit N92 cardinal has been disbursed some for students upkeep and organization fees for the beneficiary students. While the organization fees paid is implicit N51 billion, upkeep allowance disbursed is implicit N41 billion.

“Mr. President believes successful the power, resilience, and creativity of the Nigerian students, and it is our work to warrant that assurance by being liable partners successful nation-building.

“This engagement provides america the uncommon accidental to beryllium with the heads of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), arsenic good arsenic representatives of the Federal Ministry of Education and the Federal Ministry of Youth, who volition stock firsthand the assorted initiatives of government, the opportunities wrong their industries, and the pathways disposable for students to payment from the Renewed Hope Agenda.

“By bringing unneurotic pupil leaders crossed the 7 states of the North West, we are not lone amplifying the imaginativeness of Mr. President but besides ensuring that Nigerian students person a spot astatine the array of nationalist development.

“This is simply a measurement towards bridging the spread betwixt argumentation and impact, betwixt authorities and the governed, and betwixt aspiration and opportunity,” Asefon stated.

The statesmanlike adjutant lauded the politician of Kebbi State, Nasir Idris for his unwavering committedness to education, younker development, and entree to big the programme successful his state.

He peculiarly applauded the authorities authorities for monolithic concern successful education, saying this “continues to service arsenic a exemplary for others crossed the federation.”