The Federal Government has started collecting applications for the seventy-five billion naira Nigeria Youth Investment Fund.
The fund is an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, and it is funded by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The registration is being done online through a platform controlled by NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, which is under the CBN.
This was made known in a short message shared on Twitter by the Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, BASHIR AHMAD.
He said that young Nigerians from eighteen to thirty-five years, who have business ideas that require funding can apply for between two hundred and fifty thousand and five hundred thousand naira.