ABUJA—The United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, said in its report yesterday that Nigeria’s Human Development Index, HDI, increased by 13.1 per cent between 2005 and 2015.

In the country, insurance occupies the last priority in the hierarchy of needs, and in times like this, it gets more ignored in an economy like ours

When the market is moving up, it is not moving up simply because the authorities did anything in particular at that period; it is accumulation of what they have been doing all along when the market was down

IT is generally believed that there is no better time to invest in the Nigerian capital market than now when prices of equities are falling. On the other hand, analysts have predicted a possible elongation of the present economic impairment. What will be your advice to an investor caught in this dilemma?

Consequently, we have revised 2017 PAT forecast higher to N25.8 billion, from N11.2 billion previously. The PAT is also reflective of the elimination of forex-related losses as well as relatively higher sales volume

HEAVY trading on the shares of Fidelity Bank Plc, FCMB Group Plc and Standard Trust Assurance Plc , last week lifted total market turnover on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, by 57.06 per cent to 1.19 billion units of shares.

THE Federal Government has appointed Mr. Sunday Olorundare Thomas, the former director-general, Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) as the deputy commissioner, technical, of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) and Mr. Dikko Aliyu Abdulrahman, as director-general of the National Pension Commission (PenCom).

THE volatility in interest rate in the interbank money market is expected to persist this week despite inflow of N350 billion from matured treasury bills.

THE prevalence of foreign reinsurers, mostly European, that are presently taking about 65 per cent share of the Nigerian reinsurance market has been attributed to low underwriting capacity and shareholders’ funds of local reinsurers which are not sufficient to carter for the size of risk exposures.

As an industry we are not charging enough premium to cover the claim 

Fleet management is quite a strenuous job on its own and when combined with an organization’s core business, it becomes overwhelming and may amount to a waste of time and resources

THE 20 largest European cedents are still taking advantage of the soft market by buying more reinsurance and retaining less risk, according to a new report by AM Best, an international insurance rating agency based in United Kingdom.

AGAINST the backdrop of deceleration of inflationary pressures announced by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, last week, further insight into price movements in the first quarter of the year has indicated a mixed result.

The closest you can get that looks like it is the treasury bill. First and foremost, it is an open ended instrument; it does not have maximum subscription. In treasury bill, they tell you the units and value that is out for the week. The minimum investment is five thousand naira.

THE Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB), has indicated that unregistered insurance brokers have broken into government and corporate insurance brokerage services, warning that such was fraught with dangers of fraud and loss of money.