{"id":2489,"date":"2017-05-29T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2017-05-29T15:38:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:38:23","slug":"ja-nigeria-hosts-childrens-finance-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/ja-nigeria-hosts-childrens-finance-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"JA Nigeria Hosts Children\u2019s Finance Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2490 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ja-nigeria-child-finance-fair-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/>In celebration of Children\u2019s Day on May 27<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0, JA Nigeria hosted a Children\u2019s Finance Fair in Lagos to teach parents and children about managing money. Too many of us look back on life and wish that we had started saving and investing when we were young. This fair helped teach parents to begin early in their children\u2019s lives to instill in them the important building blocks of saving and investing and start them off in the right direction towards a secure financial future.<\/p>\n<p>The Children&#8217;s Finance Fair took place from from 9.00am on Children&#8217;s Day, Saturday 27th May 2017 at Lagos Preparatory School.<\/p>\n<p>This event brought together children under 17-years old as well as their parents, grandparents, guardians, teachers; all that have an interest in their education and financial security. Speaker and JA Nigeria Board Member, Nimi Akinkugbe talked discussed teaching children about money, children&#8217;s savings products, \u00a0identifying and developing talents, using real estate investments to fund education, mutual Funds, educational insurance,\u00a0 trust funds and and lots more&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>There was\u00a0 a mini Monopoly Tournament hosted by Kid Entrepreneurs and Bestman Games for the kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Children\u2019s Day on May 27th\u00a0, JA Nigeria hosted a Children\u2019s Finance Fair in Lagos to teach parents and children about managing money. Too many of us look back on life and wish that we had started saving and investing when we were young. This fair helped teach parents to begin early in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/ja-nigeria-hosts-childrens-finance-fair\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JA Nigeria Hosts Children\u2019s Finance Fair<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-literacy-and-education"],"acf":{"featured_alumni_video":"","year":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}