{"id":62715,"date":"2025-03-13T14:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62715"},"modified":"2025-03-13T14:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:41:19","slug":"no-travel-ban-for-student-loan-beneficiaries-nelfund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/13\/no-travel-ban-for-student-loan-beneficiaries-nelfund\/","title":{"rendered":"No Travel Ban for Student Loan Beneficiaries -NELFUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), has assured students that beneficiaries of the student loan scheme will not face any travel restrictions after graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a sensitization programme at Edo University, Iyamho, NELFUND Managing Director, Akintunde Sawyerr, dismissed concerns that the scheme\u2019s law prevents recipients from seeking opportunities abroad.<\/p>\n<p>While urging beneficiaries to take loan repayment seriously, he emphasized that graduates working outside Nigeria are still expected to fulfill their financial obligations.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the scheme\u2019s advantages, including interest-free repayment and the absence of collateral requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Providing an update, Sawyerr disclosed that NELFUND has already processed payments for 261,000 students and is set to disburse up to \u20a6135 billion once all applications are finalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), has assured students that beneficiaries of the student loan scheme will not face any travel restrictions after graduation. Speaking at a sensitization programme at Edo University, Iyamho, NELFUND Managing Director, Akintunde Sawyerr, dismissed concerns that the scheme\u2019s law prevents recipients from seeking opportunities abroad. While urging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62715","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\/62715","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=62715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62717,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62715\/revisions\/62717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}