CIIN seeks partnership with insurers on school awareness campaign

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Chuks Udo Okonta

The Director-General Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) Kola Ahmed has called on insurance operators embarking on awareness campaigns in schools to partner the institute to make the exercise more robust.

He told Inspen in a telephone interview that partnering the institute which is the education arm of the industry, would help enrich the message and education to be passed to the students.

He frowned at situations where organisations engage on campaigns in schools, and would not involve the media to publicise their efforts. He stressed that efforts to educate the younger generation on the need for insurance should be well coordinated.

He said the institute in a bid to deepen insurance awareness in schools would be conducting a retraining exercise for secondary school teachers, stressing that the institute would continue to interact with stakeholders in the schools and assist them in imparting knowledge on the pupils.

Supporting the school insurance project, the institute spent N4 million to publish an insurance book, which over 2000 copies have been donated to schools.

President Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) Fatai Lawal said: “I am pleased to announce that our Council has approved the donation of three copies of the book to each of the over 2,000 Public Secondary Schools in Nigeria. This, we believe is a significant step in the current campaign to facilitate the teaching and learning of Insurance in secondary schools.”

He noted that publication of the book offers unique opportunity for advancing one of the cardinal programmes of the institute which is the promotion of insurance education in Nigeria. He added that it will also herald a new dawn in insurance education by entrenching insurance in the consciousness of secondary school students, who are the future leaders of our nation.