Emir calls on business community in Kano to embrace insurance

Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II has called on the business community in Kano to embrace insurance as a matter of necessity in order to avoid total losses in the event of unforeseen occurrences.

Sanusi who made the call during a courtesy visit to the emir palace by the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria also requested the institute to upscale its drive in the area of insurance awareness creation as Insurance penetration in Nigeria is very low.

The Emir however commended the Institute for their the gesture in donating books to Kano schools and encouraged them to continue to deepen knowledge of insurance to the nook and crannies of the country.

CIIN recently visited Kano state as part of its campaign to promote Insurance Education and Awareness in Nigeria. According to the CIIN President, Isioma Chukwuma who led the delegation, the campaign forms part of the Institute’s statutory functions as enshrined in Act No 22 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in February 1993.

The Institute’s visit to Kano commenced with a courtesy visit to the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, at the Emir’s Palace, where 100 copies of the Institute’s published ‘Insurance Textbook for Secondary Schools’ was donated to the schools situated within the Emir’s Palace.

In a similar vein, the Institute also donated 400 copies of the ‘Insurance Textbook for Secondary Schools’ to the Kano State Ministry of Education which was received by the Permanent Secretary of the Kano State Ministry of Education, DanlamiGarba.

Chukwuma on making the presentation commented that the donation was borne out of the desire of the Institute to further strengthen the teaching and study of Insurance in Nigeria. She further expressed the Institute’s desire to partner with the Kano State Ministry of Education to train prospective insurance teachers in Kano state on how to effectively teach insurance at the secondary school level.

In his response, Garba expressed the appreciation of the Kano state government and assured the Institute that the Kano state Ministry of Education will embrace the study of insurance as a subject in its schools and also encourage students to take up the subject.

He expressed the state’s commitment to partnering the Institute in training of prospective insurance teachers stating that the objective is to have at least one insurance teacher in each of the schools in the state.