{"id":39334,"date":"2024-07-17T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=39334"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:48:05","slug":"breaking-tinubu-kicks-off-student-loan-scheme-in-aso-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/17\/breaking-tinubu-kicks-off-student-loan-scheme-in-aso-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Tinubu Kicks Off Student Loan Scheme in Aso Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has officially launched the Student Loan Scheme following a recent amendment to the program. The inauguration of a presidential committee to oversee the scheme is currently underway at the State House, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has allocated \u20a635 billion to the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFund), aiming to support 70,000 initial applicants. This funding was approved by Tinubu to initiate the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jim Ovia, appointed as the Chair of the NELFund Governing Board, sanctioned the loan disbursements to successful applicants during its first meeting in Abuja last month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the inauguration at the Villa, President Tinubu is expected to outline the terms of reference for the implementation team to ensure the scheme remains aligned with its intended purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further details will be provided as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has officially launched the Student Loan Scheme following a recent amendment to the program. The inauguration of a presidential committee to oversee the scheme is currently underway at the State House, Abuja. &nbsp; The Federal Government has allocated \u20a635 billion to the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFund), aiming to support 70,000 initial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39334","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39345,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39334\/revisions\/39345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}