The Board and management of Industrial and General Insurance Company Plc (IGI) has assured its stakeholders, particularly her customers, shareholders, staff and other business partners, that IGI is applying the right strategies and moving in the right direction.

The company said, there is therefore unassailable cause to be hopeful for a better future.

It noted in a statement, signed by Steve Ilo, head, Corporate Communications

Industrial And General Insurance Plc noted that the past years have been very challenging for IGI as a business. The situation has consistently defied operational initiatives and thus left the company sinking deeper and deeper. To arrest the situation, the Board of Directors launched a strategic and holistic turnaround programme early this year under a new management with a view to putting a sustainable halt to the company’s declining fortunes and restore growth while stabilizing its future.

“The company hitherto has been overburdened with a bogus wage bill arising from a defective human capital deployment. Because this was no longer sustainable under the very difficult circumstance IGI found itself, the inexorable imperative was to undertake a proper review and adjustment of costs across board. This exercise prompted some tough decisions that are critical success factors.”

“The company is working assiduously to meet the recapitalisation deadline of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM). We are optimistic of eventual outcome and are encouraged by the level of our progress so far on the turnaround initiative.”

We are aware of today’s realities in the Insurance industry which necessitate that companies return to the drawing boards to re-strategise in order to remain in business, the company said.

 

  

Modestus Anaesoronye is a leading Nigerian financial journalist with over two decades of experience reporting on the insurance and pension sectors across Nigeria and West Africa. He has held key editorial positions at major national media outlets, including The Comet, The Nation, and Financial Standard, and currently serves as a Senior Financial Analyst at BusinessDay Media Ltd. A widely travelled reporter, he has covered industry developments in more than 14 countries across Africa and Asia. Anaesoronye is a multiple award-winning journalist, honoured several times as Insurance Journalist of the Year and Pension Journalist of the Year by recognised industry bodies, including PensionScope and the Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp), among others.

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