YOUR RETIREMENT MAY NOT BE FARFETCHED- ODUNZE REGINALD C

 

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   Planning when not put in place is  often devastating  and according Elizabeth Garone in an article captioned “From doorman to boardroom”  she noted that “this should be a mandatory business skill — no matter what the career stage. “When technology, economics, and politics change as often as Facebook profiles, being president of a company or a country is a lot like being a tour guide who doesn't know exactly where he’s going,”  if planning is not followed and adhered to. BBC capital rightly opined  It’s never too late to start planning for the next big adventure. Start now. In five years, you’ll thank us.

And one of the basic issues of life that required planning is Retirement. As Retirement may come sooner than you expected . In 1999, when the former president  of Nigeria , General Olusegun Obasonjo introduced, downsizing,  and rightsizing,  many civil servants were taken unaware, till today, they have not recovered from it. And that brings to Retire to retirement planning.

     According to an article in Yahoo Finance captioned “7 ways to Retire happy” Mandi Woodruff opined that  In a new book, “You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think,” Atlanta-based investment advisor Wes Moss, offers an alternative to the traditional line of thinking. Rather than focus on a dollar amount to reach for, Moss decided to figure out what retirees needed to be truly happy in retirement”
“I wanted to go beyond simple income numbers,” Moss says. “I wondered what it really takes to get somebody to a point where they truly feel they have a cushion and they are also enjoying life.”
“In 2012, Moss conducted an online survey of more than 1,200 workers who had either already retired or were fewer than 10 years away from retirement. He asked them questions about what type of cars they drove, where they shopped, how much their homes were worth, and, of course, how much they had saved for retirement. But he also asked about their passion projects, how often they went on vacation, what types of volunteering they enjoyed, whether or not they were satisfied with their lives, and how much time they put into their retirement planning before cal ling it quits. (Moss did not ask participants about overall debt levels like student loans and credit cards, but did include questions about their mortgage debt).
What he found was that more money doesn’t equate to more happiness. The happiest retirees didn’t all drive BMWs or take 12 European cruises a year, either.”

   

     Of all retirement strategies, retirement planning  is often considered the best and the most cumbersome and according to BBC capital, We all have goals. Perhaps it’s to buy your first home. Or to travel the world. Or to leave corporate life for your own company. Or to send a child to university abroad.
Some of these goals take decades of planning, but many can be managed within just five years. That’s right — with smart thinking and planning you can launch the next phase of your life in less than a decade. 

    

     Why retirement planning  is very technical, is that any phase that has passed is irreversible and so staying motivated is the key to a safe retirement planning, and as the millennial are better positioned for effective retirement planning, the rest of us may not have such a privilege. It therefore behooves on us to strategize and a plan for our retirement right from the time, we secured a job.

PVC contractor is APC member –INEC chair

This is even as National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu confirmed that one of the candidates of the APC is a contractor with the commission.

Addressing stakeholders on the reason behind the postponement of the presidential election in Abuja on Saturday, the INEC boss assured that the contractor’s political inclination would not affect the commission.

The contractor in question is Mohammed Musa, APC’s candidate for the Niger East senatorial district seat.

“Yes, I am aware. That company has been working with the commission since 2011. I assure you that we have a strict system,” he said in response to a question.

“No electoral officer will be compromised. The integrity of the process is protected.”

In an earlier statement released by the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, had said that Musa’s company, ‘Activate Technologies Limited’, was saddled with supplying the machines used in printing the permanent voter cards (PVCs).

“While Sani Musa has the right to hold any public office in spite of his line of business, it is morally unjustifiable to allow a well-known supplier of sensitive INEC materials to partake in an election in which the key materials to be used for the poll were supplied by him,” Atiku said in the statement.

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