NEM Chair Pledges Commitment To Insurance Growth

The president of NEM Insurance Plc, Tope Smart, has promised a continuous committedness to security growth, adjacent arsenic helium applauded the Nigerian Association of Insurance and Pension Editors(NAIPE) for deeming him deserving of an Award of Excellence.

Tope Smart is 1 of the 5 Awardees of the NAIPE Award of Excellence and Stewardship for the interaction helium made, not lone successful Nigeria but astatine the continental level arsenic the past president of the African Insurance Organisation(AIO).

In summation to being the past radical managing director/CEO of NEM Insurance Plc, Smart was besides the past president of the Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), among different positions. In each these, Smart distinguished himself arsenic an exceptional relation and a person and protagonist of security journalists.

While receiving the award, the 2025 NAIPE Conference Committee presented it to him. In his bureau successful Obanikoro, Lagos, recently, Smart said, the accolade is simply a connection for him to bash much to guarantee Insurance takes its rightful spot successful the nationalist polity and discourse.

According to him,  “I person a idiosyncratic doctrine that what is worthy doing is worthy doing well. What shaped my cognition was the derogatory representation astatine which our Head of section successful the University created astir security companies successful Nigeria then.

“He had highest regards for overseas insurers and disregard the section ones. From that moment, I decided that I indispensable marque a difference. So, erstwhile I joined the industry, I tried my champion to beryllium capable to alteration the narrative.”

Referencing the NEM Building that has present go the look of Insurance connected Ikorodu Road, helium said, ‘The NEM gathering connected Ikorodu Road, was built without immoderate slope indebtedness to the glory of God, and it has go the envy of others.’

While appreciating each subordinate of NAIPE, helium said, helium and the radical person travel a agelong mode together.

“I tally a business, and I cognize it’s not casual to tally a business.  So, for you guys, particularly those who tally their media platforms, to beryllium determination with tenacity, contempt each the struggles successful the concern operating environment, and inactive making a difference, it is commendable, and I volition proceed to enactment your projects successful a associated effort to make the security industry,” helium pointed out.

On her part, the president of NAIPE, Nkechi Naeche Esezobor, appreciated the enactment and concern of Tope Smart and his company, NEM Insurance, implicit the years, saying the radical ne'er took them for granted.

“This gathering (NEM Insurance) was what made galore security companies commencement gathering big. Every institution coming successful is looking astatine doing what NEM did due to the fact that you person challenged them.

“Your efforts tin ne'er beryllium successful vain. As an association, we consciousness it is bully to recognise radical erstwhile they are alive. We admit what you person done for the industry, and we felt we request to admit this feat successful our 10th day of organising our yearly conference,” she noted.

Meanwhile, the president of the 2025 NAIPE Annual Conference, Roland Okoro, said Mr Tope Smart ticked each the boxes erstwhile assessing the personalities to beryllium awarded, calling connected him not to remainder connected his laurels towards deepening security acceptance, penetration and recognition.