Financial Inclusion: FG begins training of 10m Nigerians

The Federal Government has commenced registration for the training of 10 million Nigerians on financial inclusion literacy.

The training is targeted at equipping Nigerians, particularly women and youths, with essential financial skills, investment knowledge, and digital competencies for sustainable wealth creation.

Vice President Kashim Shettima inaugurated the registration in Abuja during a virtual meeting of the Presidential Committee on Economic & Financial Inclusion (PreCEFI), six professional bodies and other development partners.

Our correspondent reports the vice president was represented by the Special Adviser to the President On Economic Affairs, Dr Tope Kolade Fasua,

NAN also reports that the registration process is to be undertaken by WAWUAfrica – Africa’s premier integrated leadership and organisational excellence ecosystem -.

The development partners included the World Bank, WAWUAfrica, African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) , among others.

Shettima said the initiative will not only impact on Nigerians but eventually transform into a global impact.

“The initiative will become one of the flagship programmes of President Bola Tinubu in terms of its impact on the Nigerian people and how it can transmogrify into a global impact.

“I commend the widely focused areas of the potential impact to cover digital literacy and information technology, IT literacy, financial literacy, economic literacy, service delivery literacy, healthcare.

” It will also cover wellness, creative arts and design, business and entrepreneurship, skills trade and engineering skills, hospitality and tourism,” he said.

Shettima applauded WAWUAfrica, and the other development partners for collaborating effectively in actualising the training programme.

“We believe that this programme will continue to expand in terms of partnership and collaboration until we achieve the maximum utility and mileage required,” he added.

The Technical Adviser to the President on Economic and Financial inclusion, Dr Nurudeen Zauro, said conversations were ongoing with all the stakeholders on how to educate Nigerians to get involved in the training process.

He stated that the citizens must be well guided in order not to be hoodwinked into paying for the training, as well as to be guided on how to log into the portal to register.

“The essence here is such that Nigerians can be well guided, because this training is free of charge.

“We don’t want to have a situation whereby anybody will be requested to make any form of payment.

“We also want them to be well guided on where to log in to have their details imputed onto the system, to successfully get trained,” Zauro said.

NAN recalled that in February, PreCEFI signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with six professional bodies to design the training programmes to strengthen Nigeria’s financial and enterprise workforce.

The professional bodies were also mandated to design certification pathways, digital skills initiatives, and mentorship platforms for the programmes

The bodies included the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN);l, Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS), National Institute of Credit Administration (NICA); and others.