The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced onboarding an additional 12 state government-owned tertiary institutions to the student loan application portal.

This is disclosed in a statement made available to journalists by Nasir Ayitogo, NELFUND spokesman, on Wednesday.

Mr Ayitogo said that the expansion came following the successful submission and verification of data completeness and accuracy required from the institutions.

With the latest addition, he said that the total number of participating state government-owned tertiary institutions had increased from 36 to 48.

Mr Ayitogo urged all institutions yet to submit their students’ data to the Student Verification Portal (SVS) of the fund to do so to enable their students to benefit from the scheme.

He advised states whose data had been captured and successfully uploaded to sensitise their students to apply urgently.

He said doing this would bring succour to struggling students while also bringing guaranteed revenue to the institutions.

Mr Ayitogo urged students from the newly added state government-owned tertiary institutions to visit www.nelf.gov.ng to apply for the loan, noting that students’ data from 121 institutions was still outstanding.

He listed the 12 additional state-owned tertiary institutions as Abia State Polytechnic, Benue State University, Makurdi, College of Education, Waka-Biu, University of Medical and Applied Sciences Enugu, Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology Wudil, Kano State, Kwara Polytechnic, Lagos State University of Science and Technology and Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai, Niger.

Also on the list are Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun, Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic, Taraba State Polytechnic, and Yobe State University.

(NAN)