The Edo State government has expressed the belief that its Youth Empowerment Scheme (YES) would not be scrapped after the present administration

Reports have established that the Central Bank of Nigeria has granted an Approval‐in‐Principle for the floating of the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) following a successful fund raising of over $1 billion from the World Bank, African Development Bank (AfDB), KfW of Germany and AfB of France.