Top 6 Nigerian Personal Finance YouTubers in 2025
A growing number of people want to improve their relationship with money. They realise that unless they become prudent with their funds, they won’t build or preserve wealth. So they’re consuming personal finance content and applying the principles and tips they learn to their lives. One source of this kind of advice is Nigerian […]
7 Little Changes That’ll Make a Big Difference in Your Finance Management
Personal finance management can be overwhelming, especially when juggling multiple responsibilities. With the economic uncertainty, making every naira count is very important. There are practical strategies one can adopt to make every naira count. Read more about Finance Oftentimes, when we talk about financial independence, major financial moves like buying property or investing in […]
10 Answers to Your Questions About Personal Finance
Managing our finances can often seem overwhelming, especially in a country like Nigeria, where most of the things we know about money are from the things we observe from our parents. We spent over 20 years going to school from Nursey to the University, and there is little or no course on personal finance […]
Developing AI-Enabled Personal Finance Management Tools
The fintech industry has seen significant growth in recent years, with startups disrupting traditional banking and finance services by offering innovative solutions to manage personal finances. One of the key drivers of this growth is the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), which has enabled fintech companies to provide personalized and intelligent financial services to […]
7 Tips to Manage Your Finances This Christmas
It’s the season to be merry—and one in which shopping goes into overdrive. When Christmas comes around, a sizeable portion of the public makes its way to malls and markets to purchase stuff that’ll glitter, impress, and fill bellies. This translates to a lot of money spent. It also means that most people wind […]
Why Personal Finance Should Be Taught In Schools
A great number of people leave institutions, after investing 16 to 20 years of their lives with little or no financial knowledge or investment. This is why the rat race for financial independence might continue for a long time, as the awareness of the importance of financial education is gotten later, rather than sooner. Personal […]
Is It Wrong to Want Wealth?
I recently realized that one of the reasons I’m not yet wealthy is that I have never wanted to be. Not that God doesn’t want to bless me, not that Nigeria is hard, just that I never opened myself up to wealth. Do you really want to be wealthy? This sounds like a question to […]
Personal Finance: 7 Things We Know We Should Be Doing, But Aren’t
We know how in marriage, life and laziness get in the way of applying the knowledge that we have. Interestingly, the same thing happens when it comes to personal finance; we acquire tons of knowledge but how much of it do we apply? Here are a few personal finance basics, few people take their time […]
5 Reasons Your Budgeting Doesn’t Work
I first learnt about budgets in secondary school; from my home economics text book, to be precise. I started budgeting even with my small allowance, and over the years, those skills have helped me manage my own finances, and run my home more efficiently than I would have without a budget. Many people know that […]
How to Estimate Your Personal Net Worth
Some weeks back, Forbes released its list of top billionaires around the world including Africa. Our own Alhaji Aliko Dangote was named, again, as the richest man in Africa. But have you for once thought to yourself what you are actually worth? Well, I am sure you probably have. However, did you do it using […]
Blog of the Week: Jobberman
Our mothers taught us many useful things; to say “please” and “thank you”, to always tell the truth, to put aside savings instead of spending all our money, to pray, to share what we have. Yet, upon entering the labour market we find that we need tools other than these to get and keep a […]
6 Tips to Help You Stick to Your Budget
By Joy Ehonwa Who would have thought that budgeting skills learnt in Home Economics class could prove as useful in domestic engineering as in personal finance? This has turned out to be true for many. If you’ve made the decision to take control of your finances and stop living from salary to salary, then you […]