Students’ Loan Scheme for Social Security Studies This is an aspect of the ratified ILO Convention 102, designed to provide loans to students pursing academic studies in areas of social security at the post graduate level and this will be in conformity with international best practices e.g. Social security Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ghana.
Many youths are indigent and lack access to educational opportunities thereby making them unemployable, disaffected and disgruntled thus gravitating towards anti-social and criminal behaviours.
On take off, the scheme will cover only post graduate programmes in social security studies, which will give loans covering tuition, books, accommodation and feeding for 2 academic sessions. NSITF will also offer employment opportunities to deserving beneficiaries of the scheme upon graduation as a corporate entity and also through its subsidiaries.
NSITF PLEDGE
The NSITF has 46 years cumulative experience in poverty alleviation schemes and therefore, can provide the platform upon which the government’s poverty alleviation programmes can be anchored.
NSITF is ready and prepared to play its important role as the provider of Social Security to all Nigerian citizens and thereby act as the social Conscience of Government thus fulfilling the lofty social objectives enshrined in Chapter II of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 otherwise christened as “Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy”.
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