FG installing anti-B’Haram alarm system in northern schools –Okonjo-Iweala

The Federal Government has said that it has begun the installation of an “alarm system” across schools in the north to guard against attacks by Boko Haram.

Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, stated that the move became imperative as many schoolgirls in the north have become “instruments of war.”

The former World Bank managing director said advancing safe access to education for girls in northern Nigeria was topmost on the agenda of the Federal Government following the abduction of the over 200 Chibok girls.

Are you under financial pressure?

Author of   ‘Practical Steps to Financial Freedom and Independence’, USIERE UKO, continues on how people create financial pressure on themselves

In part I of this article, the point was made that most financial pressures we experience are self inflicted. It could be directly by spending money on what we ought not to spend money on in the first instance, or spending too much to please others (temporarily). It could also be indirectly by not preparing for the unexpected through having an emergency fund and insurance.

We use our friends and family as our emergency fund and insurance and therefore expose ourselves unnecessarily to financial pressures by living on a financial brink without a