{"id":78441,"date":"2025-11-10T05:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78441"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:07:04","slug":"youths-urge-fg-to-create-advisory-body-for-nelfund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/10\/youths-urge-fg-to-create-advisory-body-for-nelfund\/","title":{"rendered":"Youths Urge FG to Create Advisory Body for NELFUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian youth organisations have called on the Federal Government to establish a youth advisory body for the Nigeria Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), to promote transparency, accountability, and inclusion in managing student loans.<\/p>\n<p>They said such a body would institutionalise youth participation and make NELFUND more responsive to students\u2019 needs, noting persistent concerns over transparency, loan disbursement, and communication.<\/p>\n<p>A youth representative stressed that involving young people in NELFUND\u2019s decision-making would bridge the gap between government policy and student realities.<\/p>\n<p>The groups also urged government to define clear guidelines for the proposed body and ensure its independence from political influence.<\/p>\n<p>They further advocated an annual public audit of NELFUND\u2019s operations with youth representation on the audit committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has yet to react to the proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Nigerian youth organisations have called on the Federal Government to establish a youth advisory body for the Nigeria Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), to promote transparency, accountability, and inclusion in managing student loans. They said such a body would institutionalise youth participation and make NELFUND more responsive to students\u2019 needs, noting persistent concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78441","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=78441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78443,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78441\/revisions\/78443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}