Category: Financial Education
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COVID-19, banks and the new normal
Robert Obioha One of the realities of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria and elsewhere is the new normal it has engendered in the way things are done. The disease has so much affected social life and the world of work that there must be new ways of carrying out our daily human activities. And…
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First online financial education platform launched in Lagos
Gilbert Ekezie Omilola Oshikoya International has launched the Tech World of Finance, www.wofin.org – the first of its kind online financial education platform in the world. The event took place at the Africa Fintech Foundry, Victoria Island, Lagos recently. Speaking at the launch, founder of The Tech World of Finance and Africa’s Wealth Connoisseur, Omilola…
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Why Nigeria Needs To Deepen Its Financial Literacy Level -Toyin F. Sanni
Keynote speaker at the recent Capital Market Conference organized by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in collaboration with the University of Lagos, Mrs Toyin Sanni made a strong case for Nigeria to deepen its financial literacy level. Mrs Sanni an investment banker and Group CEO of Emerging Africa Capital Group said that the lack…
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German agency deepens financial literacy programme in Nigeria
To bridge financial inclusion gap in Nigeria, the German Government has restated commitment to deepening financial literacy across the country, to empower people with a set of skills and knowledge to enable them to make informed and effective decisions with their financial resources. The programme, captured in a Pro-Poor Growth and Promotion of Employment in…
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CAN CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS DEEPEN FINANCIAL INCLUSION IN NIGERIA?
Tochukwu Okwuanya Lagos, Nigeria In the past five years, I have had boots on the ground in the quest to deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria; first as Agent Network Manager for one of the early Digital Finance Startups in Nigeria, but later as a Product Manager for one of the Mobile Money Operators in Nigeria.…
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Financial Inclusion- Illiteracy, an induced impediment.
Samson .T Jola-Michael: Financial Inclusionist. A common attribute of the financially excluded population is illiteracy except on few occasions. According to Oxford dictionaries; Illiteracy means inability to read or write. Our society has magnified this inability and made it become an impediment in interacting with the financial sector; since we often unconsciously specify the interpretation…
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FirstBank Demystifying Financial Inclusion With XploreFirst
Worried by the increasing rate of the unbanked population, the Federal Government, through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), kicked off a campaign in 2012 to achieve 80 per cent financial inclusion of adult population by 2020. The CBN carried out the campaign through agency banking, mobile banking/mobile payments, linkage models and client empowerment, to…
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Microfinance takes banking, credit to grassroots.
https://thenationonlineng.net/microfinance-takes-banking-credit-to-grassroots/