 The oil state government has presented checks worth 500 million Naira to microfinance banks across the seven geopolitical zones in the state as loans to small and micro-enterprises SMEs on that its sustainable action for economic recovery, safe approach. The symbolic presentation of the checks to the microfinance banks was held at the conference hall office of the secretary to the state government, secretariat Agode Ibadon. While presenting the dummy checks to the representatives of the microfinance banks, the chief of staff to the governor, Shagun Ogumuwi, noted that the funds would cushion the difficulty induced by the removal of fuel subsidy. He said micro-businesses could access between 50,000 Naira to 250,000 Naira, while small businesses had the opportunity of accessing 250,000 Naira to 1 million Naira in loans under the scheme stressing that the participating microfinance banks selected beneficiaries without any political influence. Earlier in his remarks, the chairman, safer SMEs subcommittee professor Mo Si-bao Ba Soon-dei explained that the loan support would not only boost SMEs, which are the baseline of the state economic activities, but also help in achieving sustainable development goals, which is to cushion the effects of hardship on the people. In other states of the federation and even within the federal palace, everybody has been talking about palliative, palliative, but as a state, its Excellency Inginashi Imakide, our I'm able to have no ambitionary leader, said we don't want to give our Indians or our citizens palliative, what we want to do is that we want to teach them how to fish so that they can have fish for the rest of their life, rather than give them a fish for one day. So we are enjoying our beneficiaries to make sure that they deploy the loan to productive economic activities, and they also try to fulfill the obligation of making the agreement and self-waint you so that other beneficiaries, other citizens of your state, can also have access to this particular loan.