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By Tope Adaramola
The news hit the entire insurance industry like a thunderbolt in the wind, causing ripples of awe and disbelief in several quarters.
It’s just pretty difficult to bear that the admirable and affable Lady Nkechinyere Moore is no more.
More shattering was the fact that she did not come across to anyone as a candidate of such a shocking early death as she was quite vivacious, according testimonies of those who related with her hours before her passage. Death is indeed cruel.
Immediate Past President of the Professional Insurance Ladies Association (PILA) and current President of the Africa Insurance Women Association (AIWA), Lady Moore was a figure whose imposing physical presence, wittiness and huge contributions could not be dismissed in any professional, social or religious quarters.
Suave and intelligent, Nkechi’s humility belies her robust accomplishments in the insurance profession and life.
A first class degree holder in Insurance and Risk Management from the Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Osun State, where she also bagged a Masters’ Degree in the same course, Nkechi also possessed a Post Graduate Diploma in Maritime Law and Masters’ Degree in Business Administration (Finance) from the Lagos State University.
A seasoned insurance egg head with a rare blend of experience in Marketing, Underwriting, Claims and Reinsurance, Nkechi cut her teeth in the insurance industry when she was employed as a Senior superintendent with Nigeria Reinsurance Corporation in the Oil and Gas department.
She later moved to Prestige Assurance Plc as Senior Manager, Marine Underwriting and Customer Relations. Her quest for deeper experience on the job prodded her to join United Trust Assurance Co. Ltd as Assistant General Manager in charge of Marketing from where she was poached by the Management of Crusader Nigeria Ltd as Senior Manager cum Head of Premium Brokers Department, a position that later paved the way for her to join Tangerine Life Insurance Ltd as Deputy General Manager, Corporate Marketing.
Since the ambition of all worthy professionals is to someday pioneer his own business, Nkechi has had sufficient experience and exposure that could position her for the new challenges in the brokerage profession which she audaciously gave a shot to by founding Mega Trust Insurance Brokers Ltd as Chief Executive Officer.
As the 14th President of the Professional Insurance Ladies Association (PILA), Nkechi Moore gave herself wholly to the progress and sustenance of the great legacies of her predecessors in office.
She stayed true to her aspiration of making PILA an enviable name in the comity of professional associations in Nigeria, Africa and beyond, as she couched “Time to Thrive” as the mantra of her tenure of office.
Among other things, her tenure recorded sterling feats and forayed the association to the African continental plane.
She gave her usual stoic underground support for the initiation of the Top 50 Women in Insurance Awards in 2022 held during the 2022 General Assembly of the African Insurance Organisation Conference and General Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya.
It was under her tenure that PILA also held its epochal 50th anniversary celebrations with glitz and glamour, where the iconic Mrs. Ibukun Awosika was one of the key speakers.
PILA also partnered with other professional women associations joint training to the delight and enrichment of all members.
It is on record that her strive towards enriching PILA members intellectually paid off with the successful production of the seminal book on “Modern Insurance Practice: A textbook for tertiary institutions” that has become a compendium and reference material in the insurance market today.
At the international plane, it is an irrepressible fact that Late Moore broke the ice ceiling with the Africa Insurance Organisation after her passionate presentation at the AIO Conference held in Algiers, Algeria, leading to the establishment of the Africa Insurance Women Association (AIWA) which is an amalgamation of women in insurance associations across Africa, of which she became the pioneer President.
Her foresight and commitment to purpose led to the conception and successful hosting of the maiden AIWA Conference, in Lagos, which was attended by personalities from across the world and put Nigeria and the insurance industry in better reckoning.
A distinguished Fellow of the National Institute of Marketing; Chartered Institute of Shipping and Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (London) and Nigeria; Nkechi combines her professional accomplishments with the onerous task of being an admirable wife to his heartthrob, Sir Chinedu Moore (SAN) and mother of upwardly mobile children.
She was indeed a specimen of an ideal woman whose footprints would be etched in the sands of the insurance profession for a long time to come.
It is quite saddening that with the shocking demise of Nkechi Moore the Nigerian insurance firmament has again been robbed of another shinning star whose space would be difficult to fill.
PILA has indeed lost a gem and same for the entire insurance industry which she has left to mourn her unannounced departure.
Adieu to a noble and lovely soul, an embodiment of positive virtues.
Tope Adaramola is
Executive Secretary,
Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers
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