Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria’s Most Innovative Banking
Services Provider has partnered Next Generation to educate and empower not
fewer than 300 primary and secondary school pupils, in a bid to make them
emotionally intelligent to take financial decisions in the future.
Ajiri Efeturi, Team Lead, Customer Insight and Business
Support of the bank disclosed this at a seminar organised by Next Generation,
a-non-governmental organisation to raise emotionally intelligent generation at
the Centre for International and Advanced Professional Studies (CIAPS) in Lagos
recently.
The theme of the seminar was braced yourself for the future
and it was aimed at transforming the next generation of youths in the country.
Heritage Bank was the headline sponsor of the programme.
Efeturi said, “We are passionate and committed to playing
our role in the Nigerian society about how to make young people to be
financially literate,” remarking that the Nigerian youths are quite
knowledgeable about movies and the social media unlike financial matters.
She said in a bid to address the gap in financial literacy,
the bank has launched a comic magazine that would teach students financial
literacy at a very early age, adding that the basis of the financial literacy
is needs and wants.
Efeturi enjoined the students to spend their money wisely
and keep some for the future, remarking that there is need for goal mapping,
budgeting and development of financial behaviour.
She encouraged them to belong to school financial clubs,
open savings account with the bank so that the bank would allocate relationship
manager to them who would help to develop them financially, especially in
profit and loss account and also enjoy the benefits of bank tours and to work
in the bank in day as a banker.
Besides the financial literacy programme, the students who
were in the age brackets of nine to 17 years from Vivian Fowler Memorial
College for Girls, Ifako International Schools, Iju Road, Ifako-Ijaiye, Divine
Offspring School among others were also exposed to talks on the beauty of
virginity; trauma, abuse and addiction among teens as well as drug abuse.
Folashade Ajayi, a relationship and sexuality coach enjoined
them to make personal decision to abstain from sex before marriage, avoid being
alone with someone to whom they are not sexually and physically attached and
avoid pornography and exotic films, literature (novels, magazines) and music
among others.
The coach who is an executive director of Behind Door
Initiative, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) also admonished them to be
friends to people with good personalities, discipline and of good moral and
religious values; dress modestly; avoid having sexual talks with people of
opposite sex and avoid being with male friends that are more than one to avoid
being rape.
The executive director also enjoined them not to be
intimidated by threats and not succumb to blackmail and when everything else
fails, they should open their mouths to shout.
Also speaking Timi Oyebode said for a victim to recover from
trauma, abuse and addiction, such a person need to track the first experience,
grieve her loss, state her gain, track triggers, create new coping mechanisms,
response, friends, activities, life purpose and mantra.
Such a victim should also go for rehabilitation when
necessary, plan to fall and to rise again; acknowledge that she is wounded and
expose the wound to the open air, forgive herself; the abuser, God and discover
the purpose of the pain because every pain has a purpose.
Earlier in her address of welcome, Mrs. Olufunke Fajusigbe,
an advertising practitioner who also doubles as the founder and the convener of
the forum said the purpose was for the participants to discover greatness from
within themselves.
Also speaking, Professor Anthony Kila, CEO, Centre for
International and Advanced Professional Studies (CIAPS) advised the students to
see themselves as assets and their bodies as treasures, adding that successful
people use their bodies and brains to achieve success.
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