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NELFUND to introduce software for students with disabilities

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Last updated: March 18, 2025 2:12 am
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By Jimmy Jackson 

The Nigerian  Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) is set to introduce plans for specialised software aimed at ensuring that students with disabilities in higher institutions can fully take advantage of its loan scheme.

This was disclosed by the Managing Director/Chief Executive of NELFUND, Akintunde Sawyerr during a stakeholders’ engagement on student loans in Benin City, Edo State, according to a statement by the Fund on Sunday.

Sawyerr emphasised that the Act establishing the loan scheme guarantees equal opportunity for all, adding that NELFUND will collaborate with the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities to ensure more inclusivity.

“We want to see how we can make it easier for those visually impaired so that they can actually apply for the loan. We are looking at a specific software we are going to use,” he said.

Addressing concerns about loan repayment in the event of a beneficiary’s death, he said:

“The law says that, if the very person dies, that loan is not transferred to the family or anyone else. The loan is wiped out.”

Sawyerr reiterated the government’s commitment to making tertiary education accessible to all Nigerians saying, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came up with this initiative that no Nigerian student anywhere in Nigeria should be deprived of the opportunity to gain tertiary education because of lack of money.

“In order to actualize this vision, he set up this agency, Nigeria Education Loan Fund.

“He has funded it, he has put political will behind it, having created a structure through an Act of Parliament that effectively says that we are to go and look for these students, those who are about to drop out, those who are considering not furthering after secondary level, that we should look for them and if money is their issue, we should try to solve it. We’ve been doing that.”

Earlier, Edo State Deputy Governor, Dennis Idahosa, commended the Federal Government for making the student loan scheme a reality.

He said, “Let me also use this opportunity to thank the President of our dear country, President Bola Tinubu, for this initiative. Because before now, many families go through a lot of challenges to be able to pay school fees for students across the country.

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