CIIN Unfolds Activities For 2025 Insurance Week

The Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) has unveiled activities for its Insurance Week 2025 celebration, designed to promote insurance awareness, stakeholder engagement and industry collaboration.

The 7-day event packed with awareness, innovation, and transformation in the Nigeria’s insurance sector, will take place from June 28-July 4, 2025 in Lagos, and hold simultaneously in Ibadan; Abuja; Port Harcourt and Kano.

The event themed: “Insurance For All: Securing Nigeria’s Future,” will commence on Saturday, June 28, with an insurance awareness walk from NEM Insurance Plc Head office, at Obanikoro, along Ikorodu Road and terminate at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

The formal opening ceremony slated for June 30, will take place at Nigerian insurers House located at Saka Tinubu Street in Victoria Island, Lagos. This will be followed by an insurance awareness campaign on July 1, at selected secondary schools and Micro Small and Medium Enterprises MSMEs). Insurance Outreach will hold on July 2, at Sabo Market; Oyingbo Market; Bariga Market; Shoprite and Spar.

While Hackathon competition is billed to take place at the College of Insurance and Financial Management (CIFM) at Asese, Ogun State on July 3, the grand finale is scheduled for July 4, at Paradise Event Centre, Alagomeji, Lagos.

The President of CIIN, Mrs. Yetunde Ilori, who highlighted the activities of the event in a virtual meeting held on Friday, June 13, 2025, said the Insurance week, is an initiative of the Institute, designed to promote insurance awareness, stakeholder engagement and industry collaboration.

Mrs. Ilori disclosed that the celebrations would hold at the same period in Ibadan; Abuja; Port Harcourt and Kano, adding that the insurance industry would leverage the event to reward Nigerians by giving awards to people who have been promoting insurance culture.

According to the CIIN boss, the week-long event is going to be a yearly programme geared towards enhancing the visibility of the insurance industry, educating the public on the benefits of insurance, and fostering professional growth within the sector.

She stated further that the week-long event will be the beginning of another positive turning point for the insurance industry in the country as all the lined-out activities have been planned to create an enduring and lasting memory in the minds of the insuring public, the practitioners of the business and the general public at large.

Earlier in his Remarks, Chairman of the Insurance Week Organising Committee, Mr. Eddie Efekoha, commended Mrs. Ilori for initiating the programme.

Efekoha called on all stakeholders in the insurance industry to support the initiative which he said is aimed at growing insurance business and depending penetration.

The event’s Mascot, Niko, was also unveiled during the virtual meeting.