Institute Tasks Insurance Practitioners On Secondary Textbooks

The President, Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN), Mr Fatai Kayode,  has urged members of the institute to produce insurance textbooks for the use of secondary school students.
Kayode said in Lagos that the institute was also encouraging the practitioners to be more involved in the teaching of insurance subjects.
“The Federal Government recently approved insurance as a subject in secondary schools.
“The institute will provide the necessary support to enable the Federal Ministry of Education to actualise the scheme.
“Our support during the period will be in the area of production of textbooks for this course and the provision of training facilities for insurance teachers,” he said.
The CIIN president assured that practitioners who were able to have publications would be rewarded.
He said that insurance awareness could only be created when people were reasonably educated about the subject.
“The low financial literacy in Nigeria today is at the root of poor patronage of financial services and insurance happens to be one of the most affected in the sector,” he said.
Kayode said that the institute would also extend its campaign of ensuring that insurance was introduced as a subject at the secondary school level to the states.
He said that there were about 3, 500 qualified insurance practitioners, out of over 160 million Nigerians.
The CIIN president said that the only way to get insurance to penetrate the nooks and crannies of the country was to get more people involved as vanguards for insurance.