FG has not suspended student upkeep payments, says NELFUND - Businessday NG

Student upkeep payments continue, says NELFUND

NELFUND formally denied viral social media claims that Nigeria's Federal Government suspended student upkeep allowances, calling them fabricated — including an AI-generated fake Tribune front page. With N206bn disbursed to 1.6M students since 2024, the misinformation campaign targets a programme large enough that coordinated disinformation now poses a real reputational and operational risk to government-backed education finance schemes.