NDIC Trains Students On Financial Literacy in Sokoto 

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The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has stated that it is committed to driving financial literacy to the young generation in the country.

In a training organized by the corporation for secondary school students in Sokoto State on financial literacy, the corporation disclosed that the training was meant to make the students embrace a saving attitude.

The 2023 training, which was attended by hundreds of students, drawn from some secondary schools in the state, was in commemoration of the 2023 Financial Literacy Day, with its theme, “Plan Your Money, Plant Your Future.”

Addressing the students at Hapsatu Government Girls Secondary School, Sokoto on Wednesday, the controller of NDIC  in the state Bello Usman Kaoje said the programme which was in partnership with the Sokoto State ministry of education was part of the organisation’s Corporate Social Responsibility.

Kaoje said the annual financial literacy programme was designed in the spirit of “catch them young and make the learners financially literate”, because the habit of saving was education itself as it teaches self-denial and which young ones must embrace and take seriously.

He urged the students to inculcate the culture of savings to be financially disciplined.

According to him, the intention of NDIC was to use the financial literacy training programme to ensure that students of secondary schools in the country get information on how to generate, save and spend their monies.