In effort to help people build better relationship, councillor, Ruckey Peniel on Saturday, November 4, hosted top notch dignitaries from different walks of life to orientate guests at the 2023 edition of HopeNow Lagos Conference.
The host, who is known to counsel people on building better relationship at home and at work with a focus on enhancing work productivity, emotional well-being and fostering sound, lured finance coach, Sola Adesakin, soccer icon, Segun Odegbami, media guru, Emeka Mba, Sports enthusiast, Godwin Dudu Orumen, Dr. Lanre Olusola, Dr. Panam Percy Paul and UK based, Dipo Bamuyi to the conference tagged ” Towards Empowering Relationships.”
Emphasizing the theme from financial perspective, Sola Adesakin disclosed romantic and non romantic relationship die prematurely owning to financial issues. Stressing further, the chartered accountant hinted solid relationship can’t be build without financial wisdom.
In her words: ” Financing aspect is one of the main issue destroying relationship. Relationship is not about marriage alone, we have other aspects of it which many doesn’t see as major. This lead to finance topic in relationship and it cut across.”
” I’ll take myself as an example. When I got married, I was already a chartered accountant but my finances was scattered. I was an accountant but my account was in bad shape which really caused an issue at the early stage of my marriage. This was based on my attitude of buying things I don’t really need. I took many wrong decisions. My husband was more logical and I was spontaneous. In general relationship with friends, I have lend friends money which they have never return. So many relationship has been destroyed because of money issue.”
” When we talk about empowering relationship, we must also talk about things that destroys it and if we don’t address them, we can’t build solid relationship. With my experience, I believe with financial wisdom we can strengthen our relationship. Money is a tool and as such, money should not be the devil that causes damage in our home. You see family members betraying and killing themselves for money. We’ve seen instances where mother sold his or her child for money. We’ve also heard of guys who killed girlfriend for money. We’ll leave and money will still be there but it’s bad we have given money an important position in our life.”
” Relationship is an important topic, even to God who says it is not good for man to be alone and he has prepared all the things they needed to exist. Lastly, building our relationship and strengthen them is when real fulfilment start,” she stated.
Meanwhile, retired Nigerian footballer, Segun Odegbami also narrated the theme from soccer perspective while others expressed themselves in similar vein.