{"id":18031,"date":"2024-02-02T08:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T08:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=18031"},"modified":"2024-02-02T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T08:38:28","slug":"delay-persists-student-loan-scheme-launch-postponed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/02\/delay-persists-student-loan-scheme-launch-postponed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Delay Persists: Student Loan Scheme Launch Postponed Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite assurances from the federal government that the student loan scheme would kick off in January 2024, disappointment lingers among students and parents due to the continued delay.<\/p>\n<p>The eagerly anticipated student loan, designed to offer financial support to needy students, has been overshadowed by persistent setbacks. This has left aspiring students and their families uncertain about the future, as the government once again missed the January deadline.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu signed the bill establishing the Students Loan Fund (SLF) in June 2023, initially planning to commence between September and October of the same year. After failing to meet the October deadline, Tinubu announced a new start date of January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Despite affirmations from the government in late January, the launch of the loan scheme has yet to materialize, prolonging the frustration of those eagerly awaiting its implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite assurances from the federal government that the student loan scheme would kick off in January 2024, disappointment lingers among students and parents due to the continued delay. The eagerly anticipated student loan, designed to offer financial support to needy students, has been overshadowed by persistent setbacks. This has left aspiring students and their families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18045,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031\/revisions\/18045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}