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Insurers, Pension Operators Get Lagos Chamber Of Commerce Charge To Revolutionise The MSMEs With Gripping Incentives

Nwanne Ikemefune by Nwanne Ikemefune
November 5, 2022
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Insurers, Pension Operators Get Lagos Chamber Of Commerce Charge To Revolutionise The MSMEs With Gripping Incentives

NAIPE Confab L-R: Rasaaq Salami Deputy Director NAICOM, Niyi Onifade, MD Heirs Life Insurance Limited, Dr. Mrs Chinyere Almona DG Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Edwin Igbiti CIIN President, Nkechi Naeche-Esezobor NAIPE Chairman and Engr Cyril Ajagu Conference Chairman

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Insurance and pension operators have been challenged to turn the wheel of micro pension and insurance plans such that at whatever turn there are incentives that will encourage and attract those in the informal sector to embrace what is offered.

Dr. Chinyere Almona, Director General/Chief Executive Officer, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), made the call in Lagos while delivering the theme paper “Onboarding MSMEs into Micro Insurance and Pension Space in Nigeria,” at the 7th Annual Conference of the National Association of Insurance and Pension Editors (NAIPE).

Almona said attractive incentives would be infectious and rock solid that would gradually without let off galvanise the nano, micro, small and medium large army of Nigerian workers and entrepreneurs to take a studied look at what the offerings of insurers and pension operators hold for them.

“Although the Insurance and pension sectors have been doing a lot in driving the financial inclusion initiative of the Federal Government, there is need to incentivize and encourage those in the informal sector, the Nigerian Nano, Micro, Small and Medium and Enterprises NMSMEs operators to embrace micro insurance and join the micro pension plan,” Dr Almona said.

Segun Bankole DGM Corporate Communication & Investor Relations Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc at the event.

While calling on Insurance underwriters and pension administrators to take advantage of numerous opportunities that abound in the NMSME sector, Dr Almona said “NMSMEs presents huge opportunity for the micro insurance and pension industry due to the size of the workforce.”

Other opportunities include large expanse of MSMEs sector, large willing adult population, expanding distribution channels, favourable regulatory environment, mature financial services sector and revolution in information technology and digital innovations.

L-R: Niyi Onifade, Mrs Funmi Omo, MD Enterprise Life, Dr Chinyere Almona and Engr Cyril Ajagu at the event,

She embellish this with statistics, that the total number of employment by MSMEs stood at 61.9 million representing 87.9% of the total labor force in the country, adding that the number of employment generated by the informal sector was 16 million while the formal sector generated 7.5 million in 2020.

She said this sector of the economy is a lifeline for insurers and pension operators and what was missing was awareness and there was need to step up awareness and enlightenment of the NMSMEs on the benefits of micro insurance and micro pension and application of technology.

The benefits, according to her, include a safety net at retirement, alignment with the current social empowerment programmes, minimizes old-age poverty, improves standard of living for the elderly

She therefore called on the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) and the National Pension Commission (PenCom) to provide necessary regulatory framework that supports NMSMEs, reiterating that “With regulatory support, Nigeria is well placed to achieve meaningful micro-pension coverage rapidly as well as enhance insurance penetration.

Speaking on the micro insurance Industry, Dr Almona said the ratio of insurance assets to gross domestic product (GDP) has remained stagnant at 1%, and microinsurance in Nigeria is at a very early but growing phase.

Earlier in her Keynote address, the Director-General, National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar who was represented at the occasion by the Head, South West Office of PenCom, Dr Tunde Alayande said that the on-boarding SMEs into the micro pension scheme was one of the strategies employed by the pension industry to contribute to the financial inclusion initiative of the Federal Government.

He said the micro pension plan was designed for those in the informal sector including the SMEs Dr Alayande said that PenCom In collaboration with the Pension Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp), has come up with lots of initiatives for the SMEs for the benefit of the industry.

In his goodwill message on behalf of all members of the Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), the Chairman , Sugun Omosehin commended NAIPE for the conference., noting that the conference was not only significant to the insurance Insurance Industry but also to the entire financial services industry.

Earlier in her welcome address, the Chairman of NAIPE, Mrs Nkechi Naeche Esezobor said the theme of the conference was considered because of the importance of SMEs as driver and engine of growth of the Nigerian economy and the need to support it to continue to contribute to the growth of the economy.

She urged micro insurance and micro pension operators to see SMEs as their growth assets by ensuring that they are properly captured. Highlight of the event was the unveiling of the association’s new identity.

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