The University of Calabar has disbursed Nigerian Education Loan Fund refunds to 1,089 students across nine batches, while 2,090 additional applications are awaiting payment through its new automated portal.
UNICAL’s NELFUND Desk Officer, Dr Elizabeth Effiwatt, disclosed this to journalists on Friday in Calabar, adding that the institution was committed to ensuring transparency and accountability in the management of NELFUND disbursements.
She said, “The University of Calabar has completed nine batches of manual refunds to 1,089 students. It is wrong for anyone to say UNICAL has not refunded. We are refunding, and the process is ongoing.”
Effiwatt highlighted the major refunds made by the institution and debunked allegations linking the University of Calabar with institutions that have failed to refund students whose tuition fees were paid under the Federal Government’s student loan scheme, stressing that UNICAL has disbursed refunds to beneficiaries.
“Let me also take us through the number of refunds the University of Calabar has made. We have done 9 batches of refunds. Batch 1 was for 198 students. The second batch was for 104 students. We did the third batch for 106 students. Fourth refund for 105 students and then balance of 1 and 2 glitch for 168 students, batch Five was for 26 Students and batch six was 141 students, batch 7 for 99 students, batch 8 for 62 students, and then we did batch 9 which was for 80 students”, she explained.
