NUGS (Edu)

THE President of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), Mr Ishmael Tweneboah-Kodua, has called on the government to speed up the payment of student loans.
He said paying the loans on time would secure students from falling prey to unlawful activities such as cyber fraud, particularly when students desperately needed money to survive on their various campuses.
“In the light of the increasing incidents of cyber fraud, we expect that the government will pay these loans to students on time and also make the necessary adjustments to enable them to secure a minimum level of comfort,” he said.
Mr Tweneboah-Kodua made the call at the National Students Day celebration in Accra last Friday.
He said it was disheartening to see students going through a lot of frustrations before receiving their allowances.
He noted that Ghanaian students studying abroad also went through the same constraints before securing their scholarships and indicated that such students frequently wrote to their families back home for support.
He pointed out that students of French in the various institutions in the country were last year denied the one-year abroad programme in Togo and Benin due to lack of funds.
He appealed to the government to ensure the immediate disbursement of money to all Ghanaian students.