Keystone Bank has joined the global community in celebrating the global money week. The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Philip Ikeazor lauded the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the programme specifically targeted at school children to raise awareness on finances.
The CBN in conjunction with other stakeholders in the financial literacy steering committee and the Ministry of Education is developing the financial literacy curriculum to be included in the Nigerian school system from 2015.
According to Ikeazor, who was represented by Shehu K. Muhammad, Executive Director, Corporate, Investment and International Banking the Global Money Week was designed to raise awareness in finances amongst children and Youths in primary and post-primary schools saying that financial literacy constituted an integral part of developing tomorrow’s leaders.
“Children can begin to build a culture of saving from an early age”, he enthused, adding that the bank’s participation in the Global Money Week was also “in fulfillment of one of the pillars of the Bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) thrust, geared towards taking education to young Nigerians and encouraging financial literacy amongst the youths.”
The highlight of Keystone Bank’s involvement in the program was the ‘Adopt a School’ Initiative which entailed a pep talk delivered by the Senior Technical Assistant to the MD/CEO, Temitayo, Olutoye, to the pupils of Dodan Barracks Primary School, Obalende, Lagos, about the importance of savings, making an income, starting a business and financial terms and procedures.
The bank equally donated new reading chairs and tables, three white boards for pupils’ classrooms as well as a brand new percussion (band) set to the school.
