No fewer than 120 youths drawn across eight states in the Niger Delta on Tuesday in Port Harcourt received 400,000 each as grant to invest in new businesses. Mr Igo Weli, General Manager, External Relations, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) handed cheques to the beneficiaries at the SPDC/Joint Venture-sponsored 2018 Regional Graduation and Award Ceremony of its LiveWire programme. He said the beneficiaries were drawn from Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo and Rivers. According to him, the 120 beneficiaries joined about 6,952 youths who had been trained in enterprise development and management since the programme's inception in 2003. "Shell LiveWire programme enables young people to start their own businesses and create employment for themselves and others. "The programme launched in 2003, has produced 7,072 Niger Delta entrepreneurs most of whom are now employers of labour.