{"id":61431,"date":"2025-02-17T18:53:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61431"},"modified":"2025-02-17T18:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:53:28","slug":"nelfund-closes-2023-2024-cycle-launches-next-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/17\/nelfund-closes-2023-2024-cycle-launches-next-day\/","title":{"rendered":"NELFUND Closes 2023\/2024 Cycle, Launches Next Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) announced that the 2023\/2024 student loan application cycle will close on February 21, with the new cycle opening on February 22.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Abuja, Managing Director Akintunde Sawyerr emphasized the fund&#8217;s commitment to efficiency, transparency, and supporting deserving students.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 220 days, NELFUND received 364,042 applications\u2014averaging 1,000 per day\u2014and disbursed over N22.7 billion in institutional fees to 215,514 students across 150 institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, N12.8 billion was provided as upkeep support to 169,114 students, with monthly grants of N20,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>Sawyerr assured applicants that submissions made before the deadline will be processed according to established guidelines, underscoring NELFUND\u2019s ongoing mission to remove financial barriers to education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) announced that the 2023\/2024 student loan application cycle will close on February 21, with the new cycle opening on February 22. At a press conference in Abuja, Managing Director Akintunde Sawyerr emphasized the fund&#8217;s commitment to efficiency, transparency, and supporting deserving students. Over the past 220 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61431","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61434,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61431\/revisions\/61434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}