VC urges FG to grant education loan to varsity students

VC urges FG to grant education loan to varsity students

Vc of the Redeemers University, Prof. Debo Adeyewa, on Friday advised the Federal Government to grant education loan to university students to enable them tackle school fees problems in their various institutions.
Adeyewa gave the advice while addressing State House correspondents after a visit to the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo by the university’s Governing Council.

He said that already, his university, though private, had been subsidising education.


“Education is expensive anywhere in the world. You need to accept that education is expensive.

“People talk about the fact that the poor cannot access education; we are keeping the poor poor(er) by not helping them to access education.

“In the private universities, if I tell you our budget for payment of salaries all the fees that we gather is not even enough to pay salaries and yet we must build infrastructure, we must do some other things.

“We contribute even to pay fees for students; so we are actually subsidising education; it is expensive.