{"id":82757,"date":"2026-02-15T06:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82757"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:03:22","slug":"uniabuja-council-denies-nelfund-loan-diversion-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/15\/uniabuja-council-denies-nelfund-loan-diversion-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"UniAbuja Council Denies NELFUND Loan Diversion Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Governing Council of the University of Abuja has refuted allegations that the institution diverted funds provided by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), for its students.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Saturday, the council, chaired by Senator Olanrewaju Tejuoso, said no NELFUND money was diverted, misappropriated or unlawfully withheld by the university or any of its officials.<\/p>\n<p>The denial comes a day after NELFUND also dismissed the allegation and cleared the university of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, signed by the Acting Registrar and Secretary to the Governing Council, Malam Sambo Mohammed, said the university operates within established financial regulations and maintains strict accountability in managing intervention funds.<\/p>\n<p>The council urged the public to disregard what it described as a misleading media report, while reaffirming confidence in the university\u2019s management led by Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Hakeem Babatunde Fawehinmi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Governing Council of the University of Abuja has refuted allegations that the institution diverted funds provided by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), for its students. In a statement issued on Saturday, the council, chaired by Senator Olanrewaju Tejuoso, said no NELFUND money was diverted, misappropriated or unlawfully withheld by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,183,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-education","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82757","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=82757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82759,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82757\/revisions\/82759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}