CIIN seeks support to build befitting corporate office for insurance professionals
The leadership of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN), the educational arm of Nigeria’s insurance industry, has appealed to the industry’s stakeholders to support it’s bid to erect a befitting structure that will serve as a home for insurance professionals nationwide by contributing generously to ensure completion of the Institute’s Victoria Island Corporate Office.
The Chairman of the Governing Council and President of the Institute, Sir Muftau Oyegunle, made the appeal in his new year message “the President’s New Year Message 2021.”
While emphasizing the need for a befitting structure for the Institute, Sir Oyegunle said the commencement of construction work at the Institute’s Victoria Island Office tops his priority list this year.
“As the umbrella body and unifying platform for all insurance professionals in the industry, it is only proper that the Institute has a structure befitting of the status of the insurance industry and representative of the professionals that make it thick. Therefore, we appeal to all concerned stakeholders to support the Institute in its bid to erect a befitting structure as a home for insurance professionals nationwide
“The Institute belongs to all of us; you and I including other practitioners who wear the toga of insurance professionals. It is my hope that as stakeholders, we will continue to lift the Institute higher by actively participating to make the institute’s programmes and activities in 2021 more successful than the previous year,” he said.
On the challenges facing the industry especially in 2020, he said “The insurance industry is currently facing the challenges of adapting to online activities, recapitalization and the claims arising from #EndSARS protests amongst others. I want to believe that these are the moments that our well-trained professionals at the helms of affairs were made for.
“Our reactions to these disruptions will determine our position to day and in future. These disruptions are here and they have come with new challenges that calls for reinforcements of our professional calling as highlighted in the theme of my Presidency, ‘Reinforcing Professionalism and Ethics in The New Order.’
CIIN boss expressed optimism that the industry professionals can achieve greater successes for the industry and for the profession “if we reinforce the professionalism and ethics in reaction to the current needs and demands.”
