NELFUND’s head of media and public relations, Nasir Ayitogo, said the decision was necessitated by the failure of several state-owned institutions to upload the required student data and fees information to the NELFUND Student Verification System (SVS).
According to him, only a limited number of state-owned institutions had successfully completed the data submission process.
“These include 20 state universities out of 48, 12 state colleges out of 54 and 2 state polytechnics out of 49.