Almond Insurance Industry Awards Opens, Voting Ends Oct 20
LAGOS – The 2023 Almond Insurance Industry Awards Panel of Judges headed by Ms Prisca Soares has officially released the names of Nominees in the various categories.
The very thorough nomination process which lasted for one month had top management staffs of Insurance and Broking Firms, Corporates and Individual Clients nominating companies, and individuals based on the stipulated criteria.
According to the organisers, over three hundred individuals and companies participated in the process while some of the nominees were disqualified due to non-compliance with the criteria adding that emergence of the nominees was done through a rigorous fine-tuning exercise by the judges that finally produced the underlisted.
Under Life Insurance Company Of The Year, Mutual Benefits Life Assurance Ltd; Coronation Life Insurance Company Ltd; AIICO Insurance Plc and Sanlam Life Insurance Nigeria Ltd made it to top nomination in this category.
Others were African Alliance Insurance Plc; Capital Express Assurance Co. Ltd; Old Mutual Nig. Life Insurance Company Ltd; Custodian Life Assurance Limited; Zenith Prudential Life Insurance Co Ltd as well as LASACO Assurance Plc.
In the same vein, NEM Insurance Plc; Coronation General Insurance Plc; AXA Mansard Insurance Plc; Custodian & Allied Insurance Plc; Anchor Insurance Company Limited; Leadway Assurance Co Limited as well as Cornerstone made the nomination for general insurance company of the year category.
Four micro/takaful firms which made the list in Micro/Takaful Insurance Company Of The Year category include Goxi Microinsurance Limited; Noor Takaful Insurance Limited; Hilal Takaful Nigeria Limited and Salam Takaful Insurance Company Ltd.
Also Mr. Kunle Ahmed – (CEO), AXA Mansard Insurance Plc; Mr. Tope Smart (MD/CEO) NEM Insurance Plc; Mr. Tunde Hassan Odukale (MD/CEO), Leadway Assurance Co. Ltd and Mr. Augustine Osegha Ebose (MD/CEO) Anchor Insurance Company Limited will be jostling to grab the Insurance CEO Of The Year award at the grand finale.
While BOFF & Co. Ins. Brokers Ltd; Y.O.A Insurance Brokers Ltd; Scib Nigeria & Co Ltd; Golan Heights Ins. Brokers Ltd; HOGG Robinson Nigeria Ltd; FSL Insurance Brokers Ltd and ATIAT Insurance Brokers Ltd are competing for Insurance Broking Company Of The Year, Mr. Oreoluwa Ebuoluwa Olarinmoye – (CEO BOFF & Co. Ins. Brokers Ltd); Mr. Shola Tinubu. – (CEO Scib Nigeria & Co Ltd) and Mrs. Enitan Solarin – (CEO Y.O.A Insurance Brokers Ltd) will slug it out for the insurance broker of the year award.
At a Press Conference in Lagos, the Chairman of the Awards Panel of Judges Ms. Soares, said that Winners in the various categories will be based on the decision of
Voters who forms 60per cent of the judging process while collated Data from the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) will balance it up.
She implored nominees to encourage their clients and the general public to visit the Awards Website to cast their votes. Although voting is FREE companies as well as individual clients can vote just once in each of the categories.
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