Worry no more about January and children school fees, here are seven banks offering parent school fees loan for their kids

 After the Christmas and New Year spending, the school fees season is here again. No need to run helter-skelter to gather your children's school fees because the solution is right here, beckoning at you.Here is a list of Nigerian banks offering school fees loans and collateral free.

Across Nigeria, nursery, primary and secondary schools resumed a new academic session this week. Payment of school fees is a crucial part of a new academic session and many parents are already running helter-skelter to gather tuition fees for their children. Given that salary-earning parents may have exhausted most of their income and savings during the last Christmas and New Year celebrations, it becomes imperative to find other sources for tuition fees so as not to disrupt their children's education.

1.GTBank Guaranty Trust Bank’s School Fees Advance is a loan facility designed to help parents and guardians finance the payment of their child or wards’ school fees for schools and institutions in Nigeria. 

The loan facility is available to members of staff of public and reputable private organizations whose salaries are domiciled with the bank. The minimum loan amount is N50,000 and the maximum loan amount is N1,000,000 applicable per child. Each loan has a maximum tenor of 4 months per request. To be eligible, the customer must have a salary account with GTBank and must have received their salary through the account in the last 1 month. 

2.Stanbic IBTC Bank Stanbic IBTC Bank's Unsecured Personal School Fees Loan is an unsecured personal loan targeted at meeting the financial needs of parents and guardians looking to pay the school fees for their children or ward in any tier of the education system in Nigeria. The loan caters to all tiers of the education system and can be accessed by any parent with zero collateral. The loan repayment period can be extended to suit the parent's needs.

3.Zenith Bank Zenith Bank’s education loan is designed to help parents facilitate short-term funding for the payment of their kids’ tuition fees. 

A minimum of N100,000 and a maximum amount of N5,000,000 is offered in the loan scheme. It also comes with a maximum tenor of three months for Junior School and nine months for tertiary institutions. 

4.Access Bank Access Bank's Advance for School Fees scheme is designed to provide parents/guardians with short–term financing to cover tuition fees for their children/wards. It is also ideal for financing undergraduate study, postgraduate study and professional examinations 

5.Wema Bank Wema Bank School Fees Advance is a loan facility designed to finance the payment of school fees for schools in Nigeria and the diaspora. This facility is available to salaried individuals and self-employed individuals. The loan facilitates a minimum amount of N50,000 and a maximum amount of N10,000 with a minimum tenor of 3 months (For Nursery/Primary/Secondary schools) and a maximum tenor of 12 months (for tertiary institutions) per request. 

6.First City Monument Bank (FCMB) The First City Monument Bank (FCMB) FastCash is fashioned to meet emergency financial obligations such as payment of children's school fees and rent FastCash offers loan amounts of up to N200,000 and it requires no collateral or paperwork. It is available and accessible to salaried and non-salaried customers of FCMB through its mobile app and USSD platform. 

7.LAPO Microfinance Bank LAPO Microfinance Bank's Education Loan caters for the payment of children's school fees. With the loan scheme, the bank hopes to help bridge the gap between actual fees and what parents/guardians can afford. The loan option ranges between N20,000 and N200,000 and has an interest rate of 48% per annum.