Delays, uncertainties in student loan scheme compound woes

Keni is a 300-level student of the University of Abuja. As the first of a five-child family to gain admission into the university, the Chemical Engineering undergraduate is on the verge of not registering for the current first semester except a miracle happens. This is because her reliance on the federal government’s student loan to pay tuition fees, which the university authorities have increased by 75 per cent, may not see the light of the day.