Nice lesson! I like the fact that you spoke about automated savings, for emergency funds accumulation, because with manual savings alone somebody might go broke once, as things to spend on will always exist.
How to save? How much is your monthly income? Let's say your monthly income is 30000 Naira. Divide that salary into 3 parts. Give 1 part to your family, and 1 part to your children and buy furniture. You can keep the remaining 1 part for savings. If you keep it this way, you will see that one day the amount of Naira will be large, then you can withdraw that Naira and do something with it!