Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has signed a revised supplementary budget of 450 billion naira into law.

The governor, at a ceremony held at the Exco Chamber of the Government House, Benin, said the government was appropriating about five billion naira to boost the growth of small businesses in the state.

He said with the revised supplementary budget, the government attempted to provide N5bn to disburse up to N1bn monthly to help small businesses, traders, and farmers access capital.

He said the government would partner with market associations, age groups and associations in communities where they already had some sort of support to each other, to ameliorate the suffering of Edo people.