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Student Loan: FG seeks 30% TETfund allocation

POSTED ON September 26, 2024 •   Education      BY Benedicta Bassey
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

The Federal Executive Council on Thursday proposed a bill, seeking for  30 per cent of allocations received by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund go to the Student Loan Scheme.

The bill, however, seeks to amend Section 3 of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund Act No. 16, 2011, labelled ‘Establishment of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund.’

The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, revealed this during a press briefing at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.

The Bill if endorsed by the National Assembly, TETFund will set aside 30 per cent of its initial allocation from the Federation Account to support the Nigerian Education Loan Fund.

The statement reads, “The Fund shall, before disbursement of the amount in the Fund, set aside in each year (a) one-third of the amount to be transferred to the Nigerian Education Loan Fund established under the Students Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act.

“An amount not exceeding five per cent of the total monies accruing to the Fund in the preceding year, which shall be applied for – (i) the cost of administration and management of the Fund, necessary for the due administration and implementation of the purpose of this Act, (ii) the maintenance of any property acquired by or vested in the Fund and generally to pay for services rendered to the Fund, and (iv) any other expenditure as may be approved by the Fund, from time to time, in connection with all or any of its functions and powers under this Act.”

Onanuga explained that the proposed legislation would serve as a sustainable resource stream for student loans.

“Some of us may have wondered how we are going to fund the loans we are giving to Nigerian students. Most of the funding will now come from the money going to TETFund.

“So there’s an amendment to the TETFund Act that was made in 2011 that now says that the fund shall, before disbursement of the amount in the fund, set aside an initial one-third of the amount to be transferred to the Nigerian Education Loan Fund. That is, 30 per cent of whatever TETFund gets from the federation account will now be passed on to NELFund, which will provide a ready funding source to NELFund.

“Also, TETFund has been pegged to spending only five per cent of its income on its administration. That is, whether it wants to do capital projects in its office or wants to pay salaries, it cannot spend more than five per cent of whatever accrues to it from the Federation Account. That’s the maximum it can get according to the fund. So, 30 per cent of TETFund is now going to fund the NELFund, and five per cent to fund its own operations,” Onanuga explained.

He added that the new allocation was only “supplementary as there will also be budgetary allocation from the Federal Government to NELFund all the time.”

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