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Financial Planning: Effective Antibiotic for your psychological health by Oyedamola Taiwo

Depression is a rampant epidemic that has established its root in our society unnoticed. We have heard of suicidal attempts and eventual executions. Many have been in a bad mood at one point or another and were able to walk through it because they found a solution, that’s the lucky group! We have some other set of people who relished in their horrible conditions till it aggravated into a mental disorder that ultimately suggests the suicide option. There are many causes of depression but all are primarily linked to a need-gap left unfilled; the need for self-actualization, the need for success, love, acceptance and so many others. Needs-met is a result of resource availability. Resources can range from people, to location, material things, information and money. Yes, Money! Let’s talk about Money. Whether we like to accept it or not, money provides access to many things that we aspire for. In economics, we describe money as a transaction facilitator. Life is a transaction, we exc...

Our customer of the month for June 2019

Meet our customer of the month for June 2019, Miss Olutayo Oluwadarasimi, who just recently finished her stint as a corper. Her great short story is that she set a financial goal for herself at the start of her service year and with our platform she was able to smash her goal upon ending her service year and get industrial instruments for her business. In case you are still wondering on how you can smash those money goals of yours, go get our app on playstore and start saving towards them, we have features designed to help you stay disciplined and smash those money goals with ease.

Meet our customer of the month for the month of may - Famoofo Seyi.

Don't just take our word for it when we tell you that saving with us makes hitting your finance goals really easy. Meet our customer of the month for May, Mrs Famoofo Seyi, an entrepreneur based in Ibadan who has found staying focused on her finance goals much easier since she started using our mobile app, in her own words she has been able to save towards particular goals and smash them without stress and her business and financial lifestyle have greatly improved as a result. Be like Famoofo Seyi and join the ranks of those who save smart and better with F&K Savings, you too will find smashing your money goals not stressful at all. Thank you, Mrs Famoofo Seyi for being such an amazing customer

How to detect ponzi schemes, a piece by Olamide Oseni

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul is literally one of the oldest fraud tricks in the book, and it’s alarming that people still fall prey to schemes such as this especially in the wake of one such dubious schemes that has invested participants looming on the precipice of disaster. These schemes are no new trend in the Nigerian environment but it’s still alarming how people fall for them, it would have been funny if it wasn’t a matter of such serious concern, space a couple of years between these things and the story remains the same, people rush, invest their money and inevitably a sizeable number of them got swindled. The term ‘ponzi’ can be traced back to US Italian immigrant, Carlo Charles Ponzi who pulled off one of the biggest investment scams in history that had people losing as much as millions of dollars, and this was as far back as the 1920’s. Following the pattern laid back by the progenitor of such scams, Ponzi/pyramid schemes promise an unusually high returns...