The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has said that students from Kano, Borno, Benue and Katsina states are the top applicants of the students’ loan scheme.
A data chart released recently by the fund via its X handle, @nelfnigeria, listed the number of applicants from states across the country.
The list showed that students from Kano topped the list of applicants with 17,122, while Borno and Benue followed with 13,798 and 11,754 respectively.
Katsina followed with 10,952 applicants and Kaduna had 10,380. Others had the following applicants: Plateau, 9,328; Oyo, 8,990; Adamawa, 8,977; Kogi, 8,400; Osun, 8,093; Kwara, 7,645; Taraba, 8,668; Yobe, 8,966; Ogun, 5,943; Akwa-Ibom, 6,525; Bauchi, 6,517; Kebbi, 6,333; Gombe, 6,121; Niger, 5,804 and Jigawa, 5,535.
The rest are Ondo, 3,854; Nasarawa, 4,789; Ekiti, 3,497; Imo, 2,802; Delta, 2,771; Ebonyi, 2,981; Cross-River, 2,476; Enugu, 2,247; Abia, 2,170; Lagos, 2,347; Anambra, 1,840; Zamfara, 2,986; Edo, 2,149; Rivers, 2,162; Sokoto, 2,055; Bayelsa, 1,267 and the Federal Capital Territory had the least number of applicants with 676.
As of the last record, the fund said that over N3billion had been disbursed to students.
