By Aduragbemi Omiyale
The desire to deepen financial literacy among children has made the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) Group Plc to expose some students to the different capital market opportunities.
This was done last Thursday through a virtual X-Tour to commemorate the annual Global Money Week, with the students of Children’s International School honoured with the digital closing gong ceremony to bring trading activities on the exchange to a close at 2:30pm.
The theme of the Global Money Week for 2021 was Take Care of Yourself, Take Care of Your Money with the slogan, Learn. Save. Earn.
The Global Money Week is an annual global awareness-raising campaign that ensures that young people are financially aware and are gradually acquire the knowledge, skills, attitude and behaviours necessary to make sound financial decisions and ultimately achieve financial well-being and financial resilience.
Speaking at the event, the Head of Department, Market Surveillance at the NGX, Mr Abimbola Babalola, explained that the essence of the tour was to make the students gain financial independence through investment in different asset classes.
On his part, the Divisional Head, Trading Business, Nigerian Exchange Limited, Mr Jude Chiemeka, stated that, “At NGX, we will not relent in our drive to pursue initiatives and facilitate conversations that prioritise financial literacy as a catalyst through which the country can achieve financial and economic growth and advancement.
“This is evidenced by our initiatives such as the annual national competition, Adopt-A-School and X-Tour Initiatives, and other financial literacy programmes.
“We are, therefore, pleased to host the bright young leaders at Children’s International School in commemoration of Global Money Week 2021 and look forward to empowering children and young people to not only learn to manage their money wisely, but also to transfer this knowledge to their families and communities.”
Dipo Olowookere 
Modupe Gbadeyanka