Zikoko, Africa’s leading digital platform for youth culture and storytelling, successfully concluded its groundbreaking inaugural Naira Life Conference on August 8, 2025.
The landmark event, held at Jewel Aeida, Lagos, brought Zikoko’s wildly popular #NairaLife digital series to life, drawing over 900 attendees for Nigeria’s most comprehensive gathering focused on financial literacy, wealth building, business growth and career advancement for young Nigerians.
The Naira Life Conference represents a significant milestone in Nigeria’s financial education landscape. It is one of the largest ticketed money-focused events of its scale to successfully engage young Nigerians across all economic sectors.
“We’ve spent years telling stories of how Nigerians make sense of money on Zikoko,” said.
Toheeb Lanlehin, Senior Editor at Zikoko and Conference Programming Lead said,
“The Naira life Conference was our opportunity to pioneer something unprecedented, bringing corporate employees, top professionals, and entrepreneurs together under one roof to share the playbook for unlocking financial success.”
The conference’s remarkable attendance of over 900 participants defied conventional expectations for Nigerian financial events. Lanlehin noted.
“One of my earliest concerns was that most Nigerian money-related events I researched weren’t ticketed. Yet here we are, proving there’s a massive appetite for quality financial education,” he said.
The day-long event featured four distinctive content tracks carefully curated to address every aspect of financial growth: Personal Finance: Real-life budgeting, saving strategies, and daily money management decisions.
Attendees engaged in masterclasses, interactive workshops, panels, and intimate fireside chats with a lineup of Nigeria’s most influential voices in finance, entrepreneurship, and culture, including Nike Ogunlesi (Ruff n Tumble), Amb. Nimi Akinkugbe (Former Nigerian Ambassador to Greece and founder of Bestman Games), Tunde Onakoya (Chess in Slums), among several others.
