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Chuks Udo Okonta
The Chartered Pension Institute of Nigeria (CPIN) has opened a window for honorary/direct membership and set to hold induction program on June 27, 2024.
The Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer CPIN Dr. Samson Akinyemi, in a document, said the institute intends to honour top management staff, who have long years of experience and contributions toward the
development of the pension industry, stating that practitioners who have spent about 20 years or more in the pursuit of their career within and around the pension industry, along with their other qualications, are exempted from writing all examinations and honorary fellowship will be granted to them.
He submitted that the window is part of the celebration of 20 years of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) in Nigeria and that the institute would also recognised and honour middle management staff, who have by qualications and years of experience distinguished themselves. “We are looking at people who have spent between 10 and 12 years in practice along with their qualications.
“If you are qualied for any of these special window, kindly contact us through any of the following means:Phone: +234 – (0)8053414144 (0)8023012203 (0)8134278311
Email:info@pensioninstitute.org, Please help add this email: certifiedpensioninstitute@gmail.com; certiedpension@yahoo.com; ww.pensioninstitute.org,” he posited.
Dr. Akinyemi noted that membership of the institute is open to the general public provided that such interested persons possess the prescribed qualications and requirements for membership.
He said the position of fellow is the highest level of membership of the Institute, stressing that to become a fellow, the candidate must have satised the Council that he/she has possessed the Associate Certicate
of the Institute for not less than seven years immediately preceding the date of application, and that in addition, he or she must be the holder of approved academic qualications and has creditably held a senior management position in a pension management company or related company or a senior lecturer in higher educational Institution for a period of not less than seven
years.
The CPIN CEO maintained that to become an associate of the Institute, the candidate must have been employed in a pension management or related eld and has passed the prescribed examination of the institute and is also a t and proper person to be enrolled in the register. To write the associate examination, such person must possess a minimum of university rst degree/HND or
PTIC of this Institute, he added.
He noted that for anyone to be awarded the certificate, the person must have passed all the prescribed examinations for this stage, stressing that to write the examinations, the person must be an
undergraduate in any university in Nigeria or ND/HND student of any polytechnic in Nigeria or must be an employee of pension management company or related eld with a minimum of Senior Secondary School Certicate or its equivalent.
The Certied Pension Institute of Nigeria was established in 1991and was incorporated with Corporate Affairs Commission in 2003.
It has been the only professional pension body in Nigeria, conducting
qualifying examinations into pension profession and regulating the activities of members.
The founding members were pension managers and consultants of repute as at then and were members of foreign pension professional bodies such as Pension
Management Institute UK, National Institute of Pension Administrators USA, among others. Also, are seasoned
professionals in the industry in the last three decades.
The Institute, overtime, has conducted qualifying examinations leading to over 4,000 Associate and Fellow Members.
Membership cut across both public and private sectors. In the same vein, the Institute has conducted workshops, seminars and other trainings, from which over 10, 000 Nigerians have benefitted.
The Institute is known in all sectors of Nigerian Economy and has been part of the transformations going on in the economy, especially within pension industry.
