A Teen's Guide to Smart Money Moves

Your Money Simplified: A Teen's Guide to Smart Money Moves

Here's something that still bothers me: we can spend six years in secondary school and never once have a real conversation about how money actually works.

And then we wonder why so many of us get to adulthood and feel completely lost.

This guide is my answer to that.

I wrote it for Nigerian teenagers — the SS2 student managing her pocket money, the JAMB candidate with a small hustle on the side, the young person who has started asking questions that nobody around them seems able to answer. It's for them. And it's for the parent who wants to give their child a head start that school simply isn't providing.

It will tell you the truth about money — in plain language, with Nigerian examples, starting from exactly where you are.

Inside, you'll find honest conversations about:

• Why how you think about money matters before anything else
• How to make your pocket money work — however small it is
• Building a savings habit that actually sticks
• Setting your first real financial goal and reaching it
• The traps quietly catching Nigerian teenagers right now

Everybody deserves to start well — and most of us just needed someone to show us how.

Get your copy. Share it with a teenager you love. Start the conversation that school did not.

— Temi Egenti, The Chonzzi Company