President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the student loans amendment bill into law at the State House on Wednesday, April 3.
This was announced in a post by Special Assistant to President Tinubu on Social Media, Dada Olusegun.
The executive bill titled “A Bill for an Act to repeal the Students Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act, 2023 and Enact the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Bill, 2004 to Establish the Nigerian Education Loan Fund as a body corporate to receive, manage and invest funds to provide loans to Nigerians for higher education, vocational training and skills acquisition and for related matters was signed at the State House in the Presence of the leadership of the National Assembly, Ministers and major stakeholders of education.”
It could be recalled that the bill has been given a quick passage at the National Assembly to enable students to have access to it as quickly as possible.