Author: Ifeanyi Ugwuadu
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TNG Deal Breakers: Fire, flood, fire, flood! Everywhere – Insurance?
One of Nigeria’s popular artists sang a prophetic line of “blood and tears” to drive home the kind of violence that will continue to be unleashed by those in power against hapless citizens. But this is not the direction of this topic. This is about tears and blood caused by incessant disasters and the absence…
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TNG Deal Breakers: Thou shall not labour in vain
Let me say that this is not political campaign rhetoric or is it meant to weigh into any party’s ideology. This is strictly business of labour deals in their collective bargaining power and ways to boost workers’ welfare. It is rather a proposal to organized labour groups to engage more with employers to take advantage…
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TNG Deal Breakers: That good deal may be a bad one
Some six years ago, something happened that altered a product preference which had become an unquestionable buy for my family. Over the radio, a jingle played that raced me back to my childhood days and, involuntarily, I joined in singing the advert rhyme of this product and it ached my mind that I had abandoned…
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TNG Deal Breakers: Who says life can be insured?
Insurers say so! They claim life can be insured for the value placed on it. Do insurers really insure life when life itself has no measurable value in terms of the quantum of money? What then is the value of life? Follow me as we interrogate this all-time proposition by the insurance profession.
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TNG Deal Breakers: How digital space can accelerate insurance penetration in Nigeria
Technology application to solve problems has always thrived in Nigeria. The various challenges of development have inspired numerous apps embedded in existing technologies to solve problems. In the same mode, newer evolving technologies adapted to emerging markets such as ours are also finding acceptability among users. Take the case banks ATM that provides a transaction…
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Nigeria’s SDG status and insurance ahead 2023
The World Bank SDGs’ and ranking of countries with highest and lowest contributions of the insurance sector to SDG goals’ attainment provided the focus of this article and the near pyrrhic this-is-it for me and my country. On the first glance of this ranking, it looked like Nigeria sits atop the international ranking and I…