Promoting insurance awareness across Nigeria
Endowment insurance is a unique product that combines life insurance protection with long-term savings. While it’s commonly used for retirement planning, education funding, or wealth transfer, one of its lesser-known […]
This article outlines essential steps to achieving a sustainable retirement in Nigeria, emphasizing early planning, diversified income streams, financial literacy, inclusive retirement products, policy alignment, and the importance of timely pension payments for long-term financial stability and independence.
This article explores the cost differences between using an insurance broker and an agent in Nigeria, outlining their roles, compensation structures, service value, and when it is more cost-effective to use one over the other.
The devastating fire at Onitsha’s electronics market highlights the importance of insurance. With proper coverage, affected traders could have received financial relief, ensuring business continuity and recovery from their massive losses.
This article emphasizes the need for Nigerian insurers to create tailored insurance products by understanding the local market, focusing on key sectors like agriculture and health, leveraging innovative distribution channels, and improving accessibility for underserved segments like the informal sector.
This article highlights the importance of life insurance for parents, explaining its benefits, types, and how it secures their family’s financial future. It dispels myths and guides parents in choosing the right policy to protect their loved ones.
This article emphasizes the importance of insurance by showcasing real-life examples of losses incurred due to neglecting coverage. It highlights the hidden costs of skipping insurance, debunks misconceptions, and provides actionable steps to make informed insurance decisions.
This article highlights the dangers of underinsuring your assets, explaining why it happens, the financial consequences, and how policyholders can avoid it. It provides practical tips to ensure adequate coverage and protect against unexpected financial burdens due to underinsurance.
This article explains how insurers determine the market value and insured value of assets, highlighting their differences and the importance for policyholders to understand them. It covers valuation methods and offers tips to help avoid underinsurance and overinsurance.
This article discusses the dispute between African Alliance Insurance Plc and NAICOM, emphasizing the need for fair, transparent regulatory oversight in Nigeria’s insurance industry to maintain public trust, protect policyholders, and ensure balanced, responsible governance.
This article explains why insurable interest is essential for valid insurance contracts, ensuring that policies are only taken out on entities the policyholder has a legitimate stake in. It covers how insurable interest prevents fraud, maintains contract integrity, and protects insurers, forming a legal foundation for the insurance industry.
This article explores the critical role of the Nigerian government in promoting disaster insurance. It covers areas like regulation, public awareness, financial incentives, public-private partnerships, and international cooperation to drive adoption, enhance resilience, and reduce economic losses from natural disasters across communities and industries.
This article explains the concept of proximate cause in Nigerian insurance law, highlighting its legal significance in claims, dispute resolution, and policy interpretation. By determining the direct cause of loss, proximate cause is essential for fair liability assessment, protecting both insurers and policyholders and reinforcing trust in Nigeria’s insurance sector.
This article discusses how micro-insurance provides affordable, accessible, and essential coverage for small business owners in Nigeria. It explains the benefits, types, and challenges of micro-insurance, highlighting how it protects businesses against risks, fosters growth, and strengthens economic resilience, particularly for low-income entrepreneurs and informal business sectors.
In 2025, the insurance industry will grow through sports coverage, cyber insurance, automation, and climate risk solutions, embracing innovation to meet evolving demands in a competitive global market.
This article explains the difference between voluntary and compulsory excess in insurance. It discusses how each type affects policyholders, premiums, and claim costs. It also highlights the benefits and drawbacks of each, helping individuals make informed decisions when choosing their insurance policies.
This article explains how to choose the right excess level for your insurance policy, highlighting key factors like personal finances, policy value, claim frequency, and premium impact. It provides a balanced approach to selecting the appropriate excess while weighing the pros and cons of both high and low excess levels.
This article discusses the legal consequences of insurance fraud in Nigeria, highlighting various forms of fraud, the legal framework governing such offenses, and the penalties involved, including imprisonment, fines, restitution, and revocation of licenses for professionals. It also covers measures taken to combat insurance fraud in the country.
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