Edo NMA alleges govt failure to dialogue over strike
THE Edo State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, yesterday, expressed worry over the alleged failure of the state government to engage the striking health workers in the state in a meaningful dialogue to bring to an end the one week old strike action.
Workmen’s compensation only need modification, Ajayi
The new Chairman of the Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), Mr Olusola Ladipo-Ajayi in this interview with Patience Saghana reinstates the association’s determination to retain the Workmen’s Compensation which the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) is trying to take away from the insurance industry and his plans for the insurance industry
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CIIN gets NUC support on insurance departments in universities
The National niversities Commission (NUC) has indicated its readiness to partner the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) in setting up more insurance departments in Nigerian Universities.
Professor Julius Okojie, NUC Executive Secretary made this known whilst receiving a delegation of CIIN led by the President, Mr. Sunny Adeda at the NUC Headquarters, Abuja.
…STI’s elected into CIIN council
The Managing Director of Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc, Mr. Wale Onaolapo has joined the league of Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN)’s Governing Council.Wale Onaolapo who campaigned and was voted into the council promised to take the insurance profession to an enviable height in the country and enjoined his colleagues to lend their support to his aspiration by casting their votes for him in order to make the dream a reality. In his words, “ the task of taking our noble profession and Institute to an enviable height in the country is an exercise that must be borne by all of us; it is in view of this, that I am offering my services to be part of the team that will make a significant change in charting and sustaining a progressive path for our most cherished Institute.
Food security, farmers revenue to grow with increasing insurance cover
Federal and State governments effort at alleviating scarcity of food and poverty in the land may be boosted by insurance culture which farmers need to increase enhance agricultural yields
It was in view of this that federal government established the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) in 1987 to primarily protect the farmers from the effects of natural hazards through adequate insurance cover. The implementation of the scheme was initially vested in the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Company Limited, which was later transformed into a corporation by Decree No. 37 of 1993.
Women protest 2-yr PHCN black-out in Okoribi quarters
VEHICULAR movement was grounded to a halt Tuesday, at the ever-busy Airport Road, Warri, as thousands of leaves wielding angry women barricaded the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, zonal office, protesting the over two years black-out in Okoribi Quarters of Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State.
