CIIN takes insurance curriculum to ministries of education

Chuks Udo Okonta

The Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) in colloboration with the Federal Ministry of Education are working out ways to get states' ministries education enforce the introduction of insurance curriculum in secondary schools, Inspen has learnt.

President
CIIN Dr. Wole Adetimehin, who disclosed this in an interview, said as part of the institute's strategic action plans, it intends moving round all ministries of education across the nation to canvass the implementation of the policy

He said: "In our favour, the Federal Government has made insurance West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and National Examinations Council (NECO) subject, where by, students have to offer insuurance from Senoir Secondary one to three.

"As part of our strategic action plans, we intend moving round all ministries of education across the nation to canvass the implementation of this policy. We have been to the Federal Ministry of Education and we have gotten all the curriculum for the schools, now we are partnering the Federal Ministry of Education in enforcing or compelling all the states' minitries of eduction to implement this new agenda."

He said the institute is already commissioning people to write text books on insurance in line with the curriculum, adding that the effort would at the same time create jobs for members of the institute.

The Federal Government in a bid to deepen insurance awareness, last year, introduced a curriculum that would enable students acquire insurance knowledge at the secondary school level.