{"id":3583,"date":"2013-05-13T06:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T06:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/group-to-introduce-student-loans-for-nigerian-students\/"},"modified":"2013-05-13T06:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T06:29:55","slug":"group-to-introduce-student-loans-for-nigerian-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/group-to-introduce-student-loans-for-nigerian-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Group to introduce student loans for Nigerian students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Citizens Platform<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

New Nation, a grass-roots empowerment project, has concluded plans to begin a student loan scheme in Nigeria by June 2013, a la that of developed countries.<\/p>\n

This was disclosed at the weekend by the chairman of the project, Mr. Charles Dukwe, during a press conference in Lagos.<\/p>\n

Dukwe urged the government to set up an educational scheme to improve students’ academic efforts, saying that most Nigerian parents die of high blood pressure as a result of their inability to pay their children’s school fees.<\/p>\n

He stressed that Nigeria should follow in the footsteps of other countries of the world, as they all have student loan programme to aid education.<\/p>\n

In his words, “Barrack Obama would not have become the US President if there was no student loan in America. He was brought up by a single mother, and the only way he could go to the university was through America’s student loan programme.<\/p>\n

“There are Barrack Obamas in Nigeria selling pure water, and if you look at the statistics of parents, or what kill people in Nigeria, you see high blood pressure is the number one killer and high blood pressure in Nigeria is triggered by school fees.<\/p>\n

“In America and the rest of the world, parents do not pay school fees for their children, students take student loan till they graduate and when they start working, they pay back with interest.<\/p>\n

“We are introducing that in Nigeria in June and other programmes that will make this country better, it is possible for Nigeria to be a better place. What we are doing is something that is relevant in Nigeria. We are into grassroots empowerment. We are going to be launching five major economic programmes in June,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Source: Citizens Platform<\/p>\n

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