ADDRESS BY THE EDITOR INSPENONLINE
CHUKS UDO OKONTA AT THE INSPEN 2013 NIGERIAN INSURANCE AND PENSION AWARD, ON
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26, AT MUSON CENTRE ONIKAN LAGOS.
·
The Chairman, Sir
Sunny Nwosu (KSS)
·
The Special Guest
of Honour, Barr. Laide Osijo, FIIN, FCIB
·
The Speaker
·
President of the
NCRIB, Mr Ayodapo Shoderu, FIIN, FCIB
·
President of CIIN,
Mr F.K Lawal, FIIN
·
The Awardees
·
Gentlemen of the
Press
·
Ladies and
gentlemen
It
is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to this epoch making event which
is the first of its kind in the insurance and pension industries. Inspen
Nigerian Insurance and Pension Award, was designed to celebrate organisations and
individuals who have helped to reshaped activities in the industry and by
extension the economy.
The
award, which started last year with the recognition of two distinguished
individuals and an underwriting company, has now come to stay. This year, we decided
to raise the bar by setting high standards to judge the operations of companies
and impacts made by individuals in moving insurance and pension business
forward. To achieve this, we gave the public the opportunity to select those to
be celebrated by calling for votes. Having harmonised the votes which came from
different parts of the country, we benchmarked the scores with the set standard
to arrive at the winners we are celebrating today.
The award which is in seven categories
had 28 nominees of which nine emerged winners.
Inspen Nigerian Insurance and Pension award is
poised at to enhance the image of the sectors, which over the years had
suffered low patronage due to bad public perception.
In the one year of our operations, we
have made great impact in showcasing the activities in the sectors to global
audience. The results are evidenced, as foreign organisations with interest in
both sectors regularly write to us to find out how they can do businesses with
our local operators.
Just yesterday an organisation based
in the United Kingdom that is presently exploring how to project the image of
insurance, re-insurance and the pension in Nigeria, appointed us as its media
partner in this regard.
Inspenonline had within a short period
helped to upload thousands of photographs of events in the sector and news
reports to the World Wide Web, a feat that was lacking in time past. The world
as you know has become a global village and our relevance lies in the portability
of our medium, considering the fact that many of us now possess sophisticated
hi-phones through which we could access the web, anywhere we are. We have
resolved to continually imprint the insurance and pension industry on these
emerging media.
I could remember the rigours I went
through trying to get pictures of events in the sectors, when I was working
with my former employer. Today, we are changing the game, by ensuring that
events in the sectors are not just reported, but displayed in pictorial.
It is funny to observe that even
today; the Pictures of most Managing Directors are not available on the
internet. In the course of preparing for
this event, we observed that the personal photographs of some Managing Directors
are not on the internet. Also observed was that publishable logo of some
organisations is not on the net. These issues are what we have decided to
tackle to enable the industries enjoy global presence.
On the local front, we are reaching
out to the youths who are future prospect for insurance and pension through the
social media. The result is improving by the day as people call and mail us to
seek clearance on issues.
We will like to use this medium to
solicit the cooperation of all operators in both industries to take advantage
of our services by giving us information and photographs of major events in
their organisations.
We also solicit for advertorial
supports to enable us meet our objectives and remain afloat.
Conclusion
Operators in insurance and pension
sectors should pull out of the conservative habit exhibited by past practitioners
which never helped their businesses. Though some companies are doing well in
showcasing their brand, products and services, those that are yet to embrace
the trend should wake and leverage all available information dissimilation
channels to reach out to the public. For the bad perception affecting the
sectors can only changed when the operators tell their stories.
Once again I thank all for all for your
love and attendance of this modest event which, by the grace of God and your
cooperation will continue to be better by the year.
God bless.
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