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True to one of his campaign promises, Nigeria’s \u2063President, Bola Tinubu has signed the Student Loan Bill into law. \u2063\u2063
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\nA presidential aide, Dele Alake, revealed the development to State House Correspondents on Monday in Abuja.\u2063\u2063
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\nThe bill which had passed second reading at the House of Representatives on May 25, 2023, four days to the end of the tenure of former President Muhammadu Buhari
\nwas sponsored by Honorable Femi Gbajabiamila and titled \u2018A Bill for an Act to provide for easy access to higher education for Nigerians through an interest-free loan from the Nigerian Education Bank established in this Act to provide education for Nigerians and other purposes connected thereto.\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Students Loan Bill
\nwill enable Nigerian students access loans at interest-free rates. \u2063\u2063It also recommended two years imprisonment or N500,000 or both for students who default in repayment or anyone found aiding defaulters.<\/p>

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True to one of his campaign promises, Nigeria’s \u2063President, Bola Tinubu has signed the Student Loan Bill into law. \u2063\u2063 \u2063 A presidential aide, Dele Alake, revealed the development to State House Correspondents on Monday in Abuja.\u2063\u2063 \u2063 The bill which had passed second reading at the House of Representatives on May 25, 2023, four …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":72440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10369,10368,982],"coauthors":[2393],"class_list":["post-72889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-alake","tag-education-loan-bill","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"\nPresident Tinubu Signs Student Loan Bill - National Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"True to one of his campaign promises, Nigeria's \u2063President, Bola Tinubu has signed the Student Loan Bill into law. \u2063\u2063\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/president-tinubu-signs-student-loan-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Tinubu Signs Student Loan Bill - 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