Google, MTN, MainOne Back Deepening of Insurance Penetration in Nigeria

GLOBAL technology companies including Google, MTN, Airtel and MainOne are set to layout strategies to deepen insurance penetration in Nigeria with the use of Information and Communications tools, at an E-Insurance Conference with the theme: "Driving Insurance Penetration with Information and Communication Technologies".

Speakers from Google, MTN, MainOne, Airtel, VDT with leading key experts from both Insurance and ICT industries will brainstorm on how to use technology to drive the Insurance penetration in the Nigeria.

According to a press statement from the organisers of the Conference,

Pinet Informatics, the Managing Director of MTN Nigeria Communication

Limited, Mr Ferdi Moolman will be speaking on "The Imperatives of

Adequate Internet Connectivity in a Modern Insurance Sector" alongside

the managing Director of VDT communications, Mr Biodun Omoniyi, while the Country Manager, Google Nigeria, Mrs Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor will speak on the "Expectations of Insurance Consumers in the Information Age" Managing Director of MainOne, Funke Opeke will be speaking on "The Importance of Local data Hosting and Use of Nigeria Top Level Domain Names in the Insurance Industry", the Managing Director, VODACOM Nigeria, Mr. Lanre Kolade, will speak on the same subject.

Managing Director of Pinet Informatics, Engr. Lanre Ajayi disclosed that from the Insurance industry, President, Chartered Insurance Institute of

Nigeria (CIIN), Lady Isioma Chukwuma will be chairing a panel discussion

on "Ensuring curriculum compliance with modern trends in Technology".

Notable experts on the panel are the Director General, Nigeria Insurance

Association (NIA), Mr Sunday Thomas, Former Chairman, Education

Committee, (CIIN) and former President of CIIN, Mr Bola Temowo, Director General, Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN), Mr.  Richard Olutayo Borokini and Prof Ade Ibiwoye, Head of Department, Actuarial Science and Insurance, UNILAG.

Ajayi added that Managing Directors of Insurance companies, which

include Mr Segun Omosehin of Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc., Mr Oye

Hassan Odukale, Leadway Assurance Company Limited, Mrs Adeyinka Adekoya, WAPIC Insurance and Mr. DK Adedeji, Niger Insurance Limited will speak on a panel chaired by the Chairman of Nigeria Insurance Association, Mr Eddie Efekoha with a sub-theme "Driving Insurance Underwriting Processes with ICT".

He revealed that keynote address during the one day event holding at

Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos on March 23, will be delivered

by Executive Vice Chairman, Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC),

Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, Director General, National Information

Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami,

Commissioner for Insurance, National Insurance Commission (NAICOM),

Mohammad Kari and the Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo

Shittu.