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Life and living are risky businesses. Every corner you turn, there are risks. Risks abound. In bed? A ceiling fan fell on someone lying on his bed and caused grievous bodily injuries. A woman was climbing down the staircase when she tripped and injured her hips. If the first victim had a personal accident insurance, […]

The sight of drivers fighting on the road after an accidental collision is a common sight in Nigeria. But there should not be any fight if they are well informed. To start with, the Motor Vehicles (Third Party) Insurance Act of 1945, which took effect from 1st April 1950, makes it an offence for anybody […]

    (Singing) “We are better together, we are bigger together, we are stronger together, we are safer together, we are fuller together, we are richer together, we are greater together…” That was Olola Olabode Ogunlana, the doyen of insurance in Nigeria, singing a song he said boardroom guru, Michael Omolayole, used to sing for […]

Two major incidents have changed the way some people use their vehicles in Lagos in the past one year. The first was the ban on tricycles (Keke Marwa) in some major routes in Lagos. Commuters had started lamentations, describing the government as insensitive for not providing alternative means of transportation before banning the tricycles. But […]

Insurance practitioners in Nigeria have always been firm and uniform on the need to increase insurance penetration in Nigeria. But there are divergent views on whether or not the strict enforcement of the compulsory insurances should be a major tool to increase the penetration. A school of thought feels that relying on compulsion to increase […]

An insurance professional colleague, Anayo Nwosu, raised a very important issue on our professional insurance platform recently. He asked what will happen if the vehicles currently travelling interstate, in spite of the interstate ban on movement by the government, were to be involved in an accident? I thought I should escalate it so that the […]

In virtually every part of Lagos, it rained continuously from last Wednesday morning to Thursday evening. I knew Lagosians were in trouble by Wednesday afternoon. I had gone to Maryland in Lagos. On my way back, portions of Ikorodu Road, especially between Maryland and Anthony, had become a river. It was impossible for saloon cars […]

The kingship of the customer has long been established. The VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment we currently operate in has further entrenched the kingship, but even kings have advisers, who give them counsel, which can be accepted or jettisoned. That is why I am offering this advice to companies that are into haulage. They […]

Recently, a friend informed me that they wanted to do a group life insurance policy for their association, but a member interjected that it is not possible because some of them already have life insurance policies. I quickly corrected him that it is possible to have multiple life insurance policies. We shall come back to […]

The federal government ordered the decontamination of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, and The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, over two weeks ago. Even though there is still a ban on international flights and travels, and interstate travels as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, it is just a matter of time before the […]