Human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has faulted the student loans law signed by President Bola Tinubu on Monday. SaharaReporters reported that Tinubu signed the Student Loan Bill into law which allows Nigerian students to access loans from the government. It will make provision for funds to be domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Education and will only be accessed by indigent students of tertiary institutions.
June 13, 2023Human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress , Omoyele Sowore, has faulted the student loans law signed by President Bola Tinubu on Monday.
It will make provision for funds to be domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Education and will only be accessed by indigent students of tertiary institutions. Sowore noted that the US had more or less devoured its young and old educated population with student loans, adding that what Nigerian youths needed was free quantitative education at all levels.
“Every student in our educational institutions at the higher levels should earn nothing less than N100,000 per semester as a study grant.
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