Insurance industry needs more from you, CIIN tells Osijo

From left: Acting Director-General CIIN Kola Ahmed; President Fatai Lawal, NCRIB President Laide Osijo; Executive Secretary of the Council, Fatai Adegbenro and Member of Legal Committee (NCRIB)Rotimi Edu at the event.

Chuks Udo Okonta

The Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) has called on the out-going President of the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB) Mrs Laide Osijo to contribute more to the development of the industry, even as she hands over the mantle of leadership this week.

The President CIIN Fatai Lawal, who disclosed this today Monday, when the management team of the NCRIB paid a thank you visit to the Institute in Lagos, urged Osijo to remain relevant in the scheme of things within the industry and use her wealth of wisdom and experience to foster growth in the industry.

He lauded the great feat recorded by the out-going president during her tenure, adding that she has set a legacy which would be difficult for her successors to rival.

Lawal called on the NCRIB to join hands with the CIIN in promoting professionalism through supporting the industry’s College of Insurance, which would soon commence.

Osijo who was filled with excitement, thanked the CIIN for the support given to her tenure, she pledged to contribute her quota in taking the industry to lofty heights.

She noted that she is leaving the NCRIB better than she met it, adding that broking business has been taken to lofty heights during her tenure and that operators now have conspicuous place in the comity of respected professionals.

She said with the help from God and members, her administration have taken broking body to the position of envy amongst professional institutions in the country and beyond.

She noted that through the entrenchment of sound ethical practice and professional conduct, insurance brokers are now esteemed, stressing that efforts have been made to develop a strong institution that will make the NCRIB perform its mandate creditably.

She lauded the amity that exists between brokers and the industry’s regulator – National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) and other professional bodies.

Osijo said in terms of inter-governmental relations, the NCRIB now has a profile that opens doors of opportunities for brokers in many government quarters, at the state and federal levels.

She urged brokers to sustain their commitment to ethical practice, adding that the sustenance of all the legacies of her administration lies in their hands.