Zenith Bank Trains Premiere Academy Students in Financial Literacy
Precious Ugwuzor
Zenith Bank, one of Nigeria’s largest financial services providers, has held a one-day financial training for students of Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja.
The training, which held as part of Premiere Academy’s institutional co-curricular Money Matter Programme, focused on how to leverage Intentional Savings, Investments and Philanthropic Spendings as Vehicles of Wealth Building and Management.
It also featured an open competition where the participants demonstrated aptitude for Money Management, with Mirabelle Effiong, a JSS 2 student of the school, going home with the N50,000 Star Prize.
Zenith Bank’s Senior Executive Officer, Training, Nancy Osuagwuh and Toluwalope Adediji, Relationship Manager, led the team of Zenith Bank personnel that conducted the training while several top officers and staff of the School were also in attendance to take in life-shaping nuggets from the interactions.
Osuagwuh praised the School for instituting the Money Matter Programme which she described as an important platform for giving the students valuable life tips to help them become best managers and complete leaders armed with excellent knowledge to impact the world.
In her words, “The excellent ambience of the school, together with the rich academic and co-curricular programmes the students are exposed to, is a stand-out characteristic that speaks volume for the bright future of these students.
” The component and design of the Money Matter Programme, for example, and other impactful activities the School regularly undertakes represent one of the best approaches to total education anywhere in the world for which the Management of the School deserve a big applause.”
While thanking the Zenith Bank team for conducting the training, Premiere Academy’s Principal, Mr. John Olugbenro, stressed the School’s commitment to ensuring the students receive well-rounded education that could help them rub shoulders with the best of their contemporaries globally.
“We shall continue to evolve our systems and environments holistically in line with emerging global trends to not only set our students on a path of academic excellence but to also ensure that they are well-rounded in other vital areas of life with essential life skills that foster confidence, creativity, teamwork and all-round leadership in order for them to be fully ready to shine in all aspects of life”, he stated.
