Ahmed, outgoing CIIN DG sees membership, patronage biggest challenges of the institute

Kola Ahmed, outgoing director general of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) has identified membership and patronage as biggest challenges facing the institute. He served for four years as DG of the institute contributing reasonably to the development of human capital in the Country’s insurance industry.

Ahmed hands over to Richard Borokini, former managing director of Royal Exchange General Insurance Company Limited.

Speaking at its valedictory press conference Ahmed, urged the new DG to get more members to join the institute, adding that as of today the institute have about 3,500 members compared to the numbers of practicing professionals in the industry.

He also called on insurance operators to patronise the institute programmes and events, adding that the patronage is not encouraging. Mr. Kolawole Raheem Ahmed assumed duty as the first Deputy Director-General of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, CIIN IN 2012.

Ahmed is a passionate professional whose experience in service of the insurance industry is impeccable.  Ahmed is a 1981 Insurance graduate from the University of Lagos.

He also holds the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Business Management, obtained in 2001 from the Lagos State University, Ojo. Born July 20th 1956, Kola Ahmed is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute (UK) obtained in 2006, having qualified as Associate of the same Institute in 1990. He was elected Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria in 2007 thus joining the prestigious society of Fellows of the CIIN.

He commenced his insurance career in 1982 from Hogg Robinson Nigeria and rose to the position of Assistant Manager before joining Koguna Babura and Company in 1986 as Underwriting Manager

In 1991, he moved to Nigerian-French Insurance Company Ltd. rising to the position of Deputy General Manager (Technical) in 2003, a position he maintained until July 2007 before joining AIICO General Insurance Company Ltd following the recapitalisation exercise which merged Nigerian-French with AIICO.

He left AIICO in June 2009 for Krabond Insurance brokers Ltd as Managing Director, a position he held until joining the CIIN on Monday April 2nd 2012.