The federal government has revealed that from September/October 2023/2024 Academic Session, students will start benefiting from students loan.
The Federal Ministry of Education disclosed that President Bola Tinubu has insisted that the process must be made seamless for students.
Andrew David Adejo, the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, disclosed this in a statement.
He said an inter-ministerial committee would be inaugurated to fine-tune the process for students to get the loan.
He said:
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed that he wants to see recipients of the loans by September/ October of 2023/2024 academic session and that, as such, an inter-ministerial committee will be inaugurated on Tuesday to fine-tune the process for students to get the loan within six weeks.
“Without meaning to say what the committee set up would do, we don’t want to make something that only public school students would benefit from.
“For now, private schools are paying tuition, so you have to give somebody going to private school an opportunity to get and pay tuition.’’
Politics Nigeria had earlier reported that the president signed the student loan bill, now an act of parliament, at Aso Rock on Monday.
