{"id":28479,"date":"2024-04-22T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/student-loan-scheme-include-private-university-students-among-beneficiaries-obasanjo-tells-tinubu\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T21:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:04:53","slug":"student-loan-scheme-include-private-university-students-among-beneficiaries-obasanjo-tells-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/student-loan-scheme-include-private-university-students-among-beneficiaries-obasanjo-tells-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Loan scheme: \u2018Include private university students among beneficiaries\u2019 \u2013 Obasanjo tells Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged President Bola Tinubu to include students of private universities among beneficiaries of the Student Loan Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo, however, raised doubt over the running of the scheme without recording corrupt practices.<\/p>\n<p>The former president spoke at the inauguration of the Asiwaju Onafowokan, Coleman Wires and Cables building at Bells University\u2019s College of Postgraduate Studies in Ota, Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>According to Obasanjo: \u201cThe Vice-Chancellor has spoken about the need to include students in private universities as beneficiaries of the Student Loan Scheme. I urge the government to listen to that and take heed to include them too. I doubt if the scheme will be run without corruption, that is another matter entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo, the proprietor of Bell University of Technology, opined that the loan scheme was crucial to the development of the society and the welfare of the citizens and that excluding a group of people would be counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming at a time the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, Mr Akintunde Sawyerr, said students in private institutions would not benefit from the loan scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Student Loan scheme: \u2018Include private university students among beneficiaries\u2019 \u2013 Obasanjo tells Tinubu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged President Bola Tinubu to include students of private universities among beneficiaries of the Student&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4730,466],"tags":[180,4734,26],"class_list":["post-28479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-obasanjo","category-tinubu","tag-news","tag-obasanjo","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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