NSE, Access Bank partner on Global money week to lift youths’ fiscal literacy

Youths across the country have been given increased opportunity to better their future through the requisite education and financial literacy awareness trainings which enables them to start saving early in life.

To this end, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday March 20th announced collaboration with Access Bank Plc to boost commitment at strengthening youth’s financial literacy and inclusion in Nigeria.

The collaboration, Daily Times gathered is to commemorate the 2017 Global Money Week themed: ‘Learn. Save. Earn’ with a series of educational programs to raise awareness and improve the capabilities of young people to make sound decisions when it comes to financial matters.

The NSE said the knowledge sharing sessions will hold from March 27 to March 31, 2017 across all NSE’s offices in Nigeria, and will see its employees mentoring young people on how money works, saving, investing, creating livelihood, gaining employment and entrepreneurship.

Other activities for the week will include a Closing Gong ceremony at the Exchange, excursions to the trading floor, interactive session with executive management of the Exchange.

The Global Money Week is a global movement to raise awareness of the importance of financial education and financial inclusion for children and youth is led by Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI), a non-profit organisation based in Amsterdam.

Pai Gamde, Acting Head, Corporate Services Division, NSE, said that the Exchange is playing its part in building a financially savvy generation of future leaders.

“To develop an inclusive finance system, we believe we must first solve the problem of educating financial consumers to enable them efficiently utilize access to basic financial services We believe that as a nation, children and youths are an important component of building a secured future and we must train these future leaders on how to make sound financial decisions”.

Olumide Orojimi , Head of Corporate Communications, NSE, said, “The Global Money Week initiative is fully consistent with our vision to promote a market place where investors are well educated to make sound investment decisions.

We continue to be proud of this programme as it allows our employees and partners to make available their expertise to prepare young people for a secured financial the future. For the past two years, the Exchange has been able to directly reach over 3,033 students and pupils from over 54 secondary and primary schools with an indirect effect on about 10,000 young people across its operating environment”