The directorate also said it has created 54 additional new micro businesses and strengthened other existing 1,766 in the last three months nationwide.
The development was made known in a statement issued by the deputy director, information and public relations, Israel Adekitan in Abuja. According to him, NDE director-general, Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo said that the 54 graduated trainees under the Start Your Own Business scheme were granted loan of Five Hundred Thousand naira each to start their micro businesses after the completion of their training while 1, 766 other existing businesses established by the NDE were also boosted through loan disbursement under the Micro Enterprise Enhancement Scheme .
He said that the The 18 benefiting states of the SYOB were cut across the six geopolitical zone of Abia, Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Gombe and Jigawa. Others are Kano, Katsina, Nasarawa, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Sokoto and the FCT. While the disbursement of Loans under the Micro Enterprise Enhancement Scheme took place in Akwa-Ibom, Adamawa, Abia, Anambra, Borno, Edo, Ekiti, Jigawa, Katsina, and Kebbi.