Date15.10.2026 | Venue: The Statement Hotel Abuja | Time:9am-5pm
What is Chief 1.0?
This is a one-day Children’s Investment Education Fair – CHIEF
Target Audience: Teens, young adults, and (adults)
Parents & guardians, schools, financial institutions and regulators
Featuring: Investment simulation booths, Junior portfolio labs
Financial literacy masterclasses, ethical investments education, real investments transactions, “Meet the Market” interactive sessions and My first savings & investments transaction badge, Fraud awareness clinic Chief 1.0 is changing that narrative.
This is a national culture shift campaign, introducing teenagers, and young adults, (including adults) to structured investment pathways: stocks, mutual funds, savings systems, faith based ethical investments and savings pathways and products, regulated instruments, and disciplined wealth creation habits, lifestyle guidance.
We are building a new generation of financially intelligent citizens before or as they enter adulthood.
OBJECTIVES OF CHIEF 1.0
Primary Objective
To create structured investment awareness and education that will enable teens and young adults to embrace and develop disciplined wealth-building habits in partnership with relevant financial services organisations.
Specific Objectives
- Introduce the children and adults (Gen Z) to regulated investment instruments (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, insurance, savings products ethical products taking them away from sports betting and other Ponzi appetites).
- Foster parent-child financial dialogue.
- Strengthen fraud awareness and risk literacy.
- Provide early exposure to capital market systems and institutional finance.
- Develop a sustainable financial literacy culture and investments model labs.
- Create early brand alignment between financial institutions and future investors.
- Strategic Alignment
Chief 1.0 is where institutions align early with the next generation of investors, decision-makers, and economic leaders. Together, we are planting the seeds of structured wealth that will move them enmass from Ponzi schemes to Portfolio Systems sustainably for the road ahead.
VALUE PROPOSITION
The Problem:
Nigeria has one of the youngest populations globally (70% under 30) without any structured financial education
Early exposure to: Ponzi schemes Unregulated investment platforms is high & recurrent
“Quick wealth” narratives on social media are being embraced speedily
Structured financial education before adulthood is absent at all levels of education
The endemic ecosystem of financial illiteracy is high among Nigerian youths
Low trust in financial brands, capital market instruments and wealth creation products among young demographics because of lack of early education, exposure and allied industry events.
WHAT IS Chief 1.0 OFFERING:
Structured savings and investment pathways via our partners -reputable financial institutions
Capital market education (stocks, bonds, mutual funds)
Ethical wealth-building principles, risk literacy & fraud awareness
Long-term investment thinking habits, guidance and
