From left: Head Corporate Communications, National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), Rasaaq Salami; Managing Director Consolidated Hallmark Insurance Plc and Chairman Sub Committee Technical, Eddie Efekoha; Group Managing Director Continental Reinsurance and Chairman Sub Committee on prudential , Femi Oyetunji ; Managing Director FBN and Chairman Sub Committee on Corporate governance Relation, Val Ojumah; Managing Director NEM Insurance Plc and Chairman Sub Committee, Market Development, Tope Smart; Commissioner for Insurance Finance and Administration; Geogre Onekhena; Group Managing Director Leadway Assurance Plc and Chairman Sub Committee on Publicity and Communication, Hassan Oye- Odukale and Managing Director Old Mutual Life and Chairman Sub Committee, Customer Services at the media briefing of the outcome of Insurers Committee meeting held today in Lagos.
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Chuks Udo Okonta
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) will commence the implementation of insurance industry’s code of corporate governance by April 1st, Inspen has learnt.
The Chairman Sub-Committee Publicity and Communications of the Insurers Committee, Oye-Hassan Odukale, who is also the Managing Director Leadway Assurance Limited, disclosed this today after the meeting of the committee in Lagos, stressing that operators are given up to the end of March to comply with the 2009 code.
According to him, operators and the commission also agreed to transit to risk based supervision that would enable operators shore-up their capital in line with the businesses they want to underwrite.
“We had a lecture from NAICOM on risk based supervision, which is where we are transiting to. With risk based supervision, there would not be common capital base for insurance companies again, companies have to determine their capital in line with the business they do.
“The board of insurance companies would have the responsibility of determining the risk capital for their companies which would be supported by the appropriate capital. This is new in Nigeria. Just like like the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), we are transiting to this new initiative and NAICOM is taking us through it so that we can move our capital structure to this base.
“We also discussed the corporate governance code which was introduced by NAICOM in 2009, but for some reasons we have not been so firm on it, we were told that from April 1st NAICOM is going to enforce the code. NAICOM has agreed that since the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is coming up with a new code, we would allow the FRC code when is it out to supersede the present code. We are giving up to April to make sure we comply with the 2009 code,” he said.
Deputy Commissioner Finance and Administration George Onekhena, said the parties had resolved to have representatives from insurers and NAICOM to look into some issues and challenges that insurers have with the commission and fashion ways to solve them.
The sub-committee chairmen are: Oye-Hassan Odukale of Leadway Assurance, Chairman Publicity and Communications; Eddie Efekoha (Consolidated Hallmark) Chairman Technical; Val Ojuma (FNB Life) Chairman, Corporate Governance and Government Relations, Tope Smart (NEM Insurance) Chairman Market Development; Femi Oyetunji (Continental Re) Chairman Prudential and Keith Alford (Old Mutual) Customer Services.
