Heritage Bank Plc is empowering 5, 544 pupils and teachers in 11 secondary schools across the country as part of efforts to support the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Financial Literacy Day, which marks the Global Money Week,

The CBN directed Heritage Bank to adopt schools in Benue, Adamawa, Jigawa, Plateau, Imo, Bayelsa and Ogun States for Financial Literacy workshop and the day afforded 5, 544 participants (teachers and students) with financial education.

Heritage Bank explained that the workshop was premised on the Global Money Week theme: #MoneyMattersMatter.

 “Students and teachers were taught several concepts including; the role and management of money, needs and wants, benefit of budgeting, spending and savings.

MD/ CEO of Heritage Bank, Ifie Sekibo while addressing participants reiterated the importance for young Nigerians to financially and economically equipped for the development of the nation.

He said Nigerian youths and those around the world need to be fortified economically via financial literacy knowledge acquisition, which will foster the importance of understanding savings culture and entrepreneurship.

Sekibo revealed that “As a bank committed to creating, preserving and transferring wealth from one generation to the next, we have consistently maintained our position as the leading brand in financial inclusion initiatives by leveraging on CBN’s mandate to impact schools across the geopolitical zones and improve financial inclusion,”

Opening a savings account for a child is one of the best ways to introduce him/her to that concept of saving at an early age.

Heritage bank has introduction of “My day as a banker” as the Bank’s unique way of promoting financial literacy among children, which is the core of the HB Bud Savings Account, specially designed to promote savings habit among children and youths.

Meanwhile, other senior employees of the bank visited other select schools in the country as directed by the apex bank to promote financial literacy.