[TOP STORY] EXTRA: Beneficiaries of student loans in other countries are committing suicide, ASUU claims | TheCable
says the federal government should convert the student loan act to a grant.
The bill sponsored by Femi Gbajabiamila, immediate past speaker of the house of representatives, seeks to provide financial assistance to poor Nigerians to fund their education.Advertisement “Since it is coming from the federation account, it should be called a grant so that these people can have access and not when they are graduating, they will be carrying heavy loads behind them and when they don’t pay within two years, they go to jail.
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