Author: Laja

7 Ways to Lower Your Electricity Consumption And Save Money

  As in many things in life, cutting down your electricity consumption can actually become a habit or should I say should become one of the good habits you cultivate. You will not only be saving money but the environment and creating opportunities for many other families to have access to electricity. With lingering economic troubles in the word today a lot of people are looking for various ways to save money. One of the components of household expenditure is our electric bill. As many homes are transiting from postpaid to prepaid metering system, an effective usage of electricity...

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Financial Literacy For Couples

As I stare at the white screen of my laptop, wondering how to start this piece. The question that wrote itself on the blank page of my mind is ‘Have you completely cracked the code of financial planning for couples after precisely 17years of marriage? My answer to that is no. But I can tell you a few thoughts that has worked and I believe with a little bit of tweak can work for you too. Marriage comes with its own challenges and when you now add the issues of money the challenges seem to assume geometric progression. But...

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Boost your Income

You earn little; Why? After the normal school runs this morning I sat at my table in the office to do my ‘To Do List’ for the day but I kept having this nagging question in my head; why are you earning so little? This question stems from the radio program I was part of over the weekend. A caller had called in saying he earns N20,000 (about $100) a month hence he cannot save from his income. Though I would normally have retorted to the normal phrase ‘if you can save when you earn a thousand even if...

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ABC of Saving

While growing up I often hear this phrase; ‘As simple as ABC’. But then ABC was not that simple because we had to recite it every day at school for us to know the twenty-six alphabets. Many times when you are having a challenge with learning a new subject or skill, you are likely to hear someone somewhere tell you it is as simple as ABC. This phrase however left an indelible mark in my consciousness because even as an adult I always want things to be simplified as ABC. I always feel that life should not be as...

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