NELFUND Opens Student Loan Application Portal For 2025/2026 Academic Session

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced the authoritative opening of its pupil indebtedness exertion portal for the 2025/2026 world session, offering fiscal enactment to students crossed tertiary institutions successful the country.

According to the agency, the exertion model volition tally from Thursday, October 23, 2025, to Saturday, January 31, 2026.

This was contained successful a connection issued connected Tuesday by NELFUND’s Director of Strategic Communications, Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, who urged eligible students to instrumentality vantage of the accidental to unafraid backing for their education.

“The pupil indebtedness exertion portal for the 2025/2026 world league officially opens connected Thursday, October 23, 2025, and volition adjacent connected Saturday, January 31, 2026,” the connection read.

NELFUND advised recently admitted students to use utilizing either their Admission Number oregon JAMB Registration Number successful spot of a matriculation number, to facilitate a seamless exertion process.

The bureau besides appealed to tertiary institutions to amusement knowing regarding registration and tuition outgo deadlines for students whose indebtedness applications are being processed.

“Institutions are encouraged to amusement knowing successful enforcing registration and interest outgo deadlines for students awaiting indebtedness disbursement,” Oluwatuyi said.

He added that institutions that person not yet commenced their world calendar for the caller league should formally notify NELFUND to alteration due scheduling.

“Institutions that person not yet commenced their 2025/2026 world league should formally constitute to NELFUND with their approved world calendar for scheduling flexibility,” the connection noted.

The Fund reiterated its committedness to ensuring that nary Nigerian pupil is denied entree to tertiary acquisition owed to fiscal constraints.

“NELFUND appeals to each institutions to see impermanent registration measures for students whose indebtedness applications are being processed, to guarantee that nary pupil loses entree to acquisition owed to fiscal constraints,” it stated.

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund was established to supply interest-free loans to students successful tertiary institutions, successful enactment with President Bola Tinubu’s committedness to expanding entree to higher acquisition and reducing fiscal barriers for young Nigerians.