Chuks Udo Okonta
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) is presently working on a blueprint that would enable it take insurance awareness to schools, Inspen has learnt.
Its Deputy Commissioner, Technical Ibrahim Hassan, who disclosed this, said the programme is aimed at reaching out to schools from primary to tertiary, adding that the commission is poised to inculcate insurance awareness in young people as most people seem to have developed negative perception about insurance.
He urged operators to be proactive and key into the enormous opportunities the commission has created to expand insurance business.
It was also learnt that the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) is working out ways entrench insurance knowledge in schools.
Its President
CIIN Dr. Wole Adetimehin, 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.
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