MAPPED: Student Loan Application By State of Origin

The management of Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has released the data of students who registered and the number of students who applied after completing the registration process on its official portal.

In a post on its X handle on Friday, August 30, 2024, the data show that Kano, Borno, Benue, Oyo, and Kaduna are the top five states that have highest number of students who showed interest in getting the financial support for their education from by applying for the loan.

In Kano for instance, there were 17,122 students who applied for the loan, although 20,814 of students registered; Borno had 16, 353 number of registered students, but 13,798 students applied after registering an account.

And from the bottom are the Federal Capital Territory 676 application of 894 that registered; Bayelsa 1,267 out of 1,977; Sokoto, 2,055 out of 3,014; Rivers, 2,162 out of 3,612, and Edo, 2,149 out of  3,612 students that created an account on the portal.

The figure shows that the total number of applicants from the least five states, which is 8,309, is not up to half of the number of applicants from Kano state.

Here is the list of student loan registration by state of origin since the application kicked off on May 24, 2024:

Number of Applicants By Geopolitical zone

1. North West: 55,363
2. North East: 55,048
3. North Central: 48,396
4. South West: 32,724
5. South South: 17,350
6. South East: 12,040

What does this mean?

The data from NELFUND simply means that not everyone who created an account on the loan portal applied for the loan. It could mean those who register but could not apply encountered some technical glitches along the way or the data they supplied are not the same as the only submitted in their institutions.

The data came at a time some Nigerians are calling on the management of the Fund to release the name of successful applicants, but due to privacy and data violations, the Fund declared that it was not the best to do.

It shows the Fund is living to its promise of transparency and accountability.

Opeyemi Quadri

Ope is a seasoned content creation specialist and researcher with over a decade of experience writing on education, student aid, and government policies. He is deeply passionate about education-related data.

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