Every year, parents face one of their biggest, recurring costs at the end of the long school holiday; Some parents have planned and saved in advance and are ready for this significant expense, whilst far too many are caught in tight corners, and find themselves struggling to make ends meet. Here are some practical money […]

Do you remember having chores that you were responsible for when you were growing up? Were you paid an allowance to do the chores? I believe that if chores are tied to a monetary incentive, children can decide to opt out of receiving compensation. In the real world there are roles and responsibilities, if you […]

The long holidays have started and some teens and adult children are idle, only watching TV, eating and surfing the internet. After all the happenings in the last year, and the fact that international borders are gradually being open, travel and family time is important. Children also need to rest, catch their breaths and unwind […]

Parents are generally driven by a natural instinct to love, nurture, and provide for their offspring. Our greatest desire is to give them everything we ever had, or, never had, and more. The danger is that whilst we are deriving pleasure from indulging them, we may actually be spoiling them and interfering with their development […]

Our current educational system focuses almost totally on academic subjects and very rarely is any aspect of money management taught in the school curriculum. This is set to change in due course. At an event to mark Global Money Week held at Abuja in March 2014, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced that the […]

As the holiday season draws to a close, parents must consider one of their biggest, recurring costs which is the school fees. Here are some back to school money tips as you prepare for the new session: Plan Ideally, parents should have started planning for the school year long before now. When you shop early, […]

We all have God-given gifts or talents and our children are no different. What is your child good at? What does your child love to do? What does your child gravitate towards? What do friends and relations refer to when they talk about your child? All children have an ability that sets them apart if […]

“The National Company of the Year Competition 2016 is an opportunity for us to showcase the weight of potential that lies within these young minds and JAN’s role in grooming the next generation of leading entrepreneurs. This is a call-to-action for corporate stakeholders, teachers, youths, entrepreneurs and all who support the cause of empowering youths […]

I was about 5 years old but I still remember because it was one of the hardest decisions I had to make . I had just done my monthly job of cleaning shoes and been paid by my father a whopping salary of N100 including all the debt he owed !!! My life was complete! […]

“What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are” – Edgar Z. Friedenberg 1959 Anna Jahns in “Spoiling Childhood” discusses how parents today are often “caught up in a guilt driven pendulum, swinging between parenting too little and parenting too much to compensate” for other deficiencies in their […]