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The President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has dismissed claims that it is demanding Nigerian students repay loans.
This comes amid reports that Tinubu had asked Nigerian students to repay their debt to the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND).
Reacting to the development, a presidential media aide, Olusegun Dada, urged Nigerians to disregard the rumours.
In a statement on his X account on Saturday, Olusegun said, “As reported from inception, repayment of the student loan will not commence until a moratorium period of two years (after NYSC completion) has been reached by the applicants.
“As it stands, the scheme will clock two years in March 2026 from the day when the first applications were made, and not a single one of the applicants would have reached the repayment stage.
“Kindly discard any other information contrary to these,” he wrote.
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The Eastern Updates reports that the acting managing director of NELFUND, Mr. Akintunde Sawyerr, said the agency disbursed N174bn to over 800,000 beneficiaries from about 263 tertiary institutions.
Facts have emerged why the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday sacked Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, declaring that his tenure had elapsed.
The Eastern Updates earlier reported that the court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to instead recognize the Senator Nenadi Usman-led National Caretaker Committee as the party’s lawful leadership.
The report was based on account by a human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, who had in a post on X, said he was present at the Federal High Court when the judgment was delivered.
However, The Eastern Updates learnt that Justice Peter Lifu delivered the judgment relying on the April 4, 2025, verdict of the Supreme Court to recognise Usman as the valid leader of the party.
The judgment followed a litigation marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2262/2025, filed by the former Minister of Finance.
