Abstract
Cooperative societies are growing in Nigerian Educational institutions. Members of different groups within these academic settings have been coming together to support each other financially through saving and incidental access to loans. A good example of such cooperative groups is ASUP SICHST Makarfi cooperative society limited. One of the key challenges that most of these societies face in their day-to-day administration is the use of manual techniques for management of cooperative records. ASUP SICHST Markarfi cooperative society limited is used as the case study in this work. The society is registered by government of Kaduna State and is operating at Shehu Idris College of Health Sciences and Technology, Makarfi. Despite having some proposals for deploying ICT solutions to manage cooperative activities, it was observed that there is paucity of works that specifically identify the need to provide solutions to loan application management problem in a custom scenario. This study proposed a web-based loan application management system that addresses the identified problems in the current manual system. The solution was developed with focus on features that cater for loan application management function in the cooperation society, in a custom manner. MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS and JQuery were the tools used for the implementation. The new system is found to be custom-developed and can promote the creation and management of members’ loan applications in the cooperative society. It is believed that this approach is better when it comes to deploying solutions for the management of custom operations of cooperative society activities.

Key words: Loan Management, Cooperative Society, Membership, Monthly savings