Author: Ifeanyi Ugwuadu
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TNG Deal Breakers: Why the probe of NHF ought to be XYZ
Historically, in Nigeria, any mention of abandoned properties takes anyone who knows something to the Biafra returnees’ era. This is not the story I am about to write here because I know little about it except through other people’s accounts presented in books or orally.
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TNG Deal Breakers: Gifting, bequests and endowment solutions for family needs
We all agree that someday, we shall pass away! Death is, therefore, inevitable. There is also another certainty that we do not have the luxury of being informed when any of us reached this final point. Thus, the best part of life is lived when we live each day like it is the last day. Today…
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TNG Deal Breakers: A Mass for mass burial – the #EndSARS Endgame
A Hundred and Three ‘only’ is now the official death toll of the #ENDSARS victims who will now be accorded a mass burial. Before now a long list of properties destroyed during the protest have been rebuilt. Pen Cinema Police Station is one such property that is a one-storey building testifying to the priority of…
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TNG Deal Breakers: We could all be saving to save our economy –– the insurance way
Let’s say 10 million Nigerians, both from the formal and informal sectors, are incentivized to save N10,000 monthly; this would give the economy N100 billion each month and N1.2 trillion in a year. In five years which (in economic terms is a medium-term) this comes to N6trillion. Pretty simple, isn’t it?
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TNG Deal Breakers: Export losses denting Nigeria’s image, curtailing entrepreneurship and solutions
Commodities, agricultural and food products are Nigeria’s forte or should be the real mainstay of the country’s economy given the vast cultivable lands and the markets for exportable packaged products. The rejection of Nigerian exports by oversea buyers has for long been one of the sorest points in the quest to earn more revenue from…
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TNG Deal Breakers: NAICOM’s intervention in commercial rating: an avoidable entry into the ring
The regulatory oversight function which framed the 1997 Act that birthed the National Insurance Commission did not envisage that regulator would one day begin to inch towards making itself a party in the insurance contract by setting rates for the purely commercial transactions of insurance companies.
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TNG Deal Breakers: This isn’t insurance!
Pensions, Social Security, Workmen’s Compensation, cargo insurance and bonds were once the exclusive turf of insurance underwriting. These are now history as the new normal is the insurance of things by subterfuge and undertaking. Underwriting no longer requires a certified professional but the deployment of artificial intelligence known for short as AI.
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TNG Deal Breakers: The Labourer deserves his wages and more
May Day is for children what May Day is for workers – one is celebrated on May 27 as Children’s Day while May 1 is Workers’ Day or Labour Day. To mark the day, workers hold rallies across the globe to highlight the plight of workers as the real producers of goods and services and…
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TNG Deal Breakers: What is in an Earth Day?
The Earth is that planet where we live and work as inhabitants. So, we could actually say that humans are guests of the Earth because it provides them accommodation to develop themselves and add value to the existing structures they met in a lawful, aligning and developing manner. But have we achieved this task?
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TNG Deal Breakers: NSCC and the reimaging of senior citizens’ care
The National Senior Citizens Center seem to have hit the ground running since it was constituted about two years ago. It was constituted in 2021 after the 2017 Act came into force that gave it powers to among others standardize, and regulate caregiving in Nigeria.