IICC organizes Service of Songs for its Departed Members
The Insurance Industry Consultative Council (IICC) is organizing a one-day Service of Songs for its departed members.
They are Chief Dipo Bailey, Past President of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria; Professor Funmi Adeyemi, Past Director General of Nigeria Insurers Association and Mrs Elizabeth Uju Ndubuisi-Chukwu, Deputy/Director General of Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria.
In a statement by the IICC Secretary who is also the Director-General of Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) Richard Borokini, said the event will take place Wednesday 10th July 2019 at the Chapel of Christ The Light, Alausa, Alausa Secretariat, MKO Abiola Gardens Road, Ikeja, at 2.00p.m.
Chief (Dr) Sir. Bailey who died on June 7, 2019, was a London trained insurance professional of many years and a former Commissioner for Insurance.
He held an honorary doctorate degree in Business Administration, which was awarded him in recognition of his immense contribution to the Insurance industry in Nigeria.
Prof. Moses Olorunfumi Adeyemi, the former Legal Adviser of National Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NICON) and visiting Professor of Insurance, University of Gambia, died early morning of Monday, June 10, 2019, at Eko Hospital, Lagos, after a brief illness.
The erudite Lawyer, alumnus of University of Lagos, and a pastor of Christ Apostolic Church, Ebute Meta was 77.
In a statement issued by her daughter, Mrs Jumoke Ifaturoti, and signed by his cousin, Chief Sina Ogunbambo, noted that prof. Adeyemi will be buried on Friday, July 12, 2019 at his residence in Okun – Owa, Odogbolu Local Government, Ogun State, after a funeral service to be conducted by Christ Apostolic Church of Nigeria.
The Deputy Director General of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN), Mrs. Elizabeth Uju Ndubuisi-Chukwu joined her maker on Thursday, 13th June 2019.
She died in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the 2019 African Insurance Organisations Conference and General Assembly.
In a statement, Director General (DG), CIIN Richard Borokini, said Mrs. Ndubisi-Chukwu was a dedicated staff of the Institute and was a valued member of the Institute since she resumed duties at the Institute on the 9th April 2016.
“During her time at the Institute, she consistently championed the ideals of the Institute, promoting the insurance Industry agenda with her expertise and experience. In particular, the CIIN Breakfast Seminar Series, a program that has become a feature in the insurance industry is one of the legacies that she leaves behind.
“She was a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, a member of the Nigerian Institute of Marketing an ex-council member of the National Council of Registered Insurance Brokers and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Loan and Risk Management of Nigeria. She was also an active member of the Professional Insurance Ladies Association (PILA).
“Mrs. Uju was kind and always had a pleasant disposition to her work and in all her relations with everyone. At this difficult time, her family and friends constantly remain in our thoughts and prayers as we pray they find the strength to go through this period. We urge you to equally keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
No one is truly dead until the ripples they create in the world die away. The ripples Mrs. Uju Ndubisi Chukwu has stirred in her time at the Institute and in the Insurance industry will last for a lifetime.
She will be sorely missed by all,” the DG said.
Indications have emerged that the Nigerian insurance director and mother, Mrs. Uju Ndubuisi Chukwu, who died during a Pan African conference in South Africa was killed in her hotel room at Emperor Palace Hotel, Johannesburg.
This is coming following the autopsy report released by the Director-General of the Department of Health, Republic of South Africa, which stated that Mrs. Chukwu, a Deputy Director General of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) died of “Unnatural Cause Consistent with Strangulation”. This lays to rest the initial belief that she died in her sleep overnight.
Unnatural death is a category used by coroners or medical examiners and vital statistics specialists for classifying all human deaths not properly describable as death by natural causes. Hence, it would include events such as accident, drug overdose, attack by an animal, mob killing, execution, homicide, medical error, misadventure, State-sponsored mass murder, suicide and war.
Meanwhile, the report from South African authorities has thrown the insurance industry in the country and across the continent into confusion as the abridged death certificate provided by the South African authorities was silent on the type of unnatural cause that killed Mrs. Chukwu.
Most alarming to the insurance fraternity is the fact that the South African authorities have also said that CCTV footage provided by the hotel management to the police showed no one entered the deceased’s room despite the autopsy report that her death was unnatural.
The CIIN President, Mr. Eddie Efekoha, said in a recent press interview that he cannot say it is true or not that Mrs. Chukwu was killed because he has not seen any document to support it, other than the report by the South African authorities that simply states unnatural cause.
He said Mrs. Chukwu was full of life at the conference and they need the authorities to explain to them what killed the woman.
He said the institute has written to the African Insurance Organisation (AIO), the Institute of Insurance of South Africa (IISA) and the Nigeria Consular, South Africa that we have an abridged report which states unnatural death but we need more answers. IISA has written back to us to say they are unable to make any headway.
“The family also has a major role to play because they are to get information from the authorities. We wanted to leave her corpse in South Africa to enable us get to the root of the matter but the family said they want to bury her. As an institute, we are interested in unraveling the cause of her death and we will pursue to a logical conclusion”, he added.
