Insurance companies sell complex promises and invariable there is the tendency for discrimination and abuse against customers. It is worthy of note that central to insurance regulation is its classification as a public-interest business to protect consumers of insurance products and ensure that promises made by insurers are kept. Accordingly, the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM has ensured that the interests of insurance consumers are protected at all times.

Two months after the relatively successful general elections, the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP penultimate week, convened a review of the media coverage and performance before and during the elections.

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has asked that attention should be shifted from his alleged application for the job of the Cote d’Ivoire national team to the Super Eagles’ next Africa Cup of Nations qualification match against Tanzania in September.

SINCE that accursed day of 12 May 2012, when Olaitan Oyerinde, former student activist, trade unionist and principal private secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, was murdered in his living room, death has been a deliriously happy visitor in the camp of Nigeria’s radical humanists. So much so that hardly are the bereaved done wiping away tears of the last funeral than news of another untimely death arrives to set them wailing afresh. The list grows is long: Oyerinde, Festus Iyayi,Baba Omojola, Bamidele Aturu,Oronto Natei Douglas. Did I mention Chima Ubani? And now Emman Ezeazu.

Three secondary school students drowned one after the other in a well while trying to fetch water to perform ablution last weekend in Okerimi-Oro in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State.