Nigeria’s higher education system has long grappled with a challenge that is both structural and deeply human: how to ensure that academic potential is not extinguished by financial circumstances. For millions of families, the aspiration of a university education collides daily with the reality of rising tuition fees, insufficient household income, and the absence of accessible formal financing. Students defer enrolment, interrupt their studies, or abandon their programmes entirely — not because they lack the ability, but because they lack funds. Against this backdrop, the Nigerian Education Loan Fund has emerged as one of the most consequential education financing interventions in the country’s recent history.
This article is not a critique of NELFUND. It is a constructive contribution to an ongoing national conversation about how to make the scheme more efficient, more credible, and more sustainable — so that it can fulfil its transformative promise for generations of Nigerian students.
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