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MAIDEN ADDRESS TO THE PRESS ON TUESDAY
26TH NOVEMBER, 2013.
I am most delighted by this
opportunity to address you today as the sixth Director General of our great
Institute. The challenges thrust on my shoulder by the Governing Council are by
no means, daunting and calls for the co-operation of my colleagues in what I
have chosen to tag a collegiate administration. This is not going to be a
one-man show or an administration by rule of the thumb. I have therefore set
before me a straight path with clear cut agenda for taking the Institute to another
level.
It is therefore my utmost pleasure in
welcoming distinguished members of the media to this my maiden briefing, while
soliciting your continued invaluable partnership.
I wish to state that, commitment to
the challenges of turning the Institute into a world-class professional body
remains the focus of the secretariat team. These challenges include the
continuous improvement of our service delivery to the teeming members of the
Institute, reinforcing the growth agendas rolled out by successive Presidents
of the Institute as well as guaranteeing the actualization of the statutory
goals and objectives of the Institute, chief of which is the provision of
robust platforms for the determination of the skills and knowledge expected of
those who hold themselves out as Insurance practitioners in Nigeria.
It is in response to these abiding
challenges that I put forward my vision for taking the Institute to another and
much loftier height. The areas in focus are the Secretariat, Administration,
Institute Members, the Institute as a Body, relationship with the Regulator
(NAICOM) as well as the College of Insurance project.
Permit me to dwell briefly on these
focal points:
THE SECRETARIAT
To serve as engine room for generation
of ideas and formulation of polices for Governing Council’s consideration and
ratification.
To provide the machinery and serve as
vehicle for full, proper and effective implementation of Governing Council’s
resolutions and directives.
To provide appropriate and effective
support for Committees of Council in the discharge of their assigned roles and
responsibilities.
ADMINISTRATION
To institute an administration that is
focused, responsive, pro-active and clinically effective in the discharge of
its responsibilities. An administration that is prudent in management of
resources with due regards for transparency, probity and accountability.
To lead a team of management that is
participatory, cohesive and committed to the goals and objectives of the
Institute and the accomplishment of resolutions of its Governing Council.
To promote the enthronement of a
compact, disciplined, dedicated, self-actualized, assertive, firm but friendly
and well-motivated workforce capable of delivering prompt, effective and
satisfactory services to members, students and all stakeholders.
To create an atmosphere conducive for
effective delivery of be-spoke services to members and students as well as
making the Secretariat receptive and welcoming to all members.
MEMBERS’ WELFARE
To strive towards the establishment
and sustenance of a sound, constructive and effective communication links with
members, students and other stakeholders for the purpose of ensuring prompt
dissemination of information about Institute’s programmes, events and
activities while also allowing for feedbacks on Institute’s performance.
To ensure the compilation and periodic
updating of the names of professionals both within the industry and in diaspora
(i.e. outside the mainstream of insurance industry) with the objective of
establishing and maintaining a line of communication with and mobilizing them
for participation in and contribution to programmes and activities organized by
the Institute and generally giving them a sense of belonging.
To galvanize members to have
confidence in and ‘own’ the Institute by giving full support in terms of attendance
of or advice on all programmes of the Institute and/or volunteering useful
advice and suggestions towards improvement of such programmes.
To promote a sense of belonging
amongst members of the Institute such that they will all regard the secretariat
as their second home.
THE INSTITUTE
To continually promote and safeguard
the image, status and pre-eminence of the Institute as the umbrella body for
all insurance practitioners as well as its role as the sole education and
training body statutorily empowered ‘to determine the standards of knowledge
and skill to be attained by persons seeking to become registered members of the
Insurance profession’.
To maintain and jealously safeguard
the sanctity and integrity of the Institute’s professional examinations while
striving to attain an increment in students enrolment to 3000 candidates per
diet within the next 3 years.
To inject into the industry a larger
number of professionally qualified personnel by striving to improve student
enrolment for the professional examinations and invariably achieving a record
of at least 5000 certified professionals serving the industry by year 2017.
To promote wider acceptability of the
Institute’s Certificate within the Africa Continent and beyond.
Gentlemen of the Press, let me
acknowledge the endearing roles you have continued to play as the media and
also admit the fact that your partnership will remain germane in this
dispensation. I wish, on behalf of the President/Chairman of Council,
appreciate your immense support for the President’s cardinal programme of
Promoting Insurance Education in Nigeria. As you are aware, the program has
progressed steadily with the donation of insurance course books to tertiary
institutions in Nigeria. I am pleased to inform you that the Presidency of Mr.
Fatai Kayode Lawal is also committed to the production of an Insurance Textbook
for Secondary Schools. The book presentation will be a major highlight of the
2013 Graduation and Awards Ceremony on Thursday 5th December, 2013 at 10
Degrees Events Centre, Ikeja, Lagos. It no doubt represents a major leap in the
Institute’s efforts geared at reinforcing the approval of Insurance as a course
of study in Secondary Schools by the Federal Ministry of Education. The Book
Presentation Ceremony which will be graced by Commissioners of Education and
top functionaries of our industry, will herald a new dawn in Insurance
Education and engender a significant step towards entrenching insurance in the
consciousness of the future leaders of our nation.
It is my belief that your
constituency, the media, which I fondly call the powerful constituency will
join other stakeholders of Insurance Industry in presenting the book;
“Insurance for Secondary Schools” to the Nigerian Nation.
Once again, I thank you for your
invaluable roles in the growth and development of the institute and the
Insurance Industry as a whole.
KOLAWOLE R. AHMED, FCII, FIIN
DIRECTOR GENERAL
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