Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Insurers told to turn population into business opportunities



Ifaturoti
Chuks Udo Okonta

Insurance operators have been urged to turn the over 170 million population of the nation into great business opportunities to enable their businesses grow.

The former Managing Director CrystaLife Assurance Plc now ARM Life Plc, Mrs Seyi Ifaturoti, disclosed this at a forum organised by the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) in Lagos. She noted that Nigerian Insurance operators have no business complaining of low premium if efforts are made in taking advantage of the nation’s huge population.

She called on operators to be creative and begin to do things in a new way, adding that the industry has the potentials to generate over N1 trillion if available opportunities are harnessed.

Ifaturoti, had once predicted that Nigerians will soon embrace life insurance products like the telecommunications if things are done properly.

She said: "It is my belief that life insurance would be appreciated just as the telecommunications, which many people in the past did not believe would be embraced by the number we have today."   

Ifaturoti said the market opportunity for insurance in Nigeria has grown rapidly, requiring businesses to rethink product design, pricing and distribution strategies to effectively reach the increasing pool of potential customers.

  

 

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