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Former Director of Currency Operations at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mrs. Priscilla Eleje, has advised Nigerians to build a savings culture for enduring financial growth and development.
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She spoke at a seminar organised by the Women Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (WCCIMA) in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, to educate Nigerians on the gains of financial literacy.
Speaking on the theme, ‘Financial Literacy: Building Confidence and Independence’, Eleje urged individuals to always save part of their income and also seek more knowledge on banking services and investment opportunities. She advised the participants to invest in assets instead of liabilities.
Eleje, who was the first woman in Nigeria to endorse her signature on the naira, advocated for more financial literacy training for people by relevant agencies to further provide chances for economic upliftment at the grassroots including women and the beneficiaries of various streams of state government empowerment schemes.
The Ebonyi State Commissioner for Aviation, Dr. Ngozi Obichukwu; the State Commissioner for Human Capital Development, Mrs. Ann Aligwe and the Director-General of Ebonyi Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency, Dr. Stephen Odo, commended the WCCIMA for the programme meant to further enlighten people on financial management.
They noted that the event was crucial, adding that Governor Francis Nwifuru is doing everything possible to boost human capacity in the state against the prevailing high level of poverty.
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They urged the women to always budget their annual expenditures and separate family expenditure from their business capital in order to excel.In his goodwill message, the President of SALTCCIMA, Chukwuemeka Eze, represented by the 1st Deputy President, Dr. Mark Abani, urged the women to apply the lessons learnt from the seminar in their business plans for better results.
The State Representative of WCCIMA-SALTCCIMA in Ebonyi State, Veronica Eze, who admitted that Ebonyi is among the places where women are less informed on financial literacy, said the aim of the seminar was to address the issue.
Eze said the body would further collaborate with other women groups to further sensitise the citizenry on the issue, including those in the hinterlands. The occasion was also used to install Princess Elemanya Ebilah as the Matron of WCCIMA-SALTCCIMA.
The Director-General of SALTCCIMA, Dr. Emmanuel Nwafor, in his contribution, said that the seminar was organised to devise alternative planning to business management in this current high inflation as it’s no longer time for women to be jobless. He said further that proper financial management by women would help them to assist men in bearing the financial burden of the family.
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