The Vice-Chancellor, McPherson University, Seriki Sotayo, Ogun State, Prof. Francis Igbasan, yesterday, appealed to the federal government to include private universities as beneficiaries of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) and their students in Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND).
He lamented that the exclusion of private varsities as well as their students from the two agencies of the federal government amounts to depriving the students their rights as citizens of Nigeria and the institutions of what they should also enjoy.
Igbasan, while addressing a press conference to herald the combined 8th and 9th convocation ceremonies of the institution, billed for Friday February 28, maintained that the federal government has no reason to exclude private varsities and their students from the interventions as they also contribute their quota to the growth of the country.