September 16, 2025 – Earlier, Youth Economic Intervention and De-Radicalization Programme (YEIDEP) beneficiaries had to deal with fact checking a circular that claimed to be the Updated Schedules of Activities. But to this day, neither YEIDEP nor the Federal Ministry of Youth Development (FMYD) has come out to dismiss or confirm the claim.
On the schedule, it was indicated that YEIDEP “Engagement with beneficiaries will take-off 11th September to October 11th 2025.” Since it was not a verified circular, the community would not take it seriously.
However, the September events that tend to correspond with the unverified circular makes it seem believable. The circular had claimed that “Collation of beneficiaries accounts will take place from 1st-10th September, 2025.” During this period, YEIDEP also had a stakeholders retreat on Wednesday, 3rd September 2025 and announced that the first tranche will enrol 8,000 beneficiaries.
More developments have gone on to take place with banks such as Zenith and Fidelity continuing to send account details to beneficiaries.
And as would be expected, there are already trending posts with the same caption claiming that “Federal government is set to commence the disbursement of YEIDEP grant to eligible Nigerians, as Banks kick off BVN and NIN Verification process.”
Whether this is true, as it is unverified by YEIDEP, FMYD and partner banks, it seems believable. The important thing is for beneficiaries to only engage with verified information from the FG as well as official notifications from partner banks.