NEM Starts Fitness Walk To Increase Public Insurance Awareness

NEM Insurance Plc has embarked on its second phase of Fitness Walk for the year to enhance insurance education and awareness in the country.

Speaking to journalists at the end of the Fitness Walk at the company’s headquarters in Obanikoro area of Lagos, the Managing Director/CEO, NEM Insurance Plc, Mr. Andrew Ikekhua noted that, only someone who is physically and mentally fit can practise insurance as a profession.

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The fitness walk started at NEM House in Obanikoro, terminated at Maryland and back to NEM office on Ikorodu road, in which its staff partook in the early morning walk.

Speaking further, he said  the company initiated the fitness walk as a form of exercise as well as enhance insurance awareness among Nigerians.

Stating that the exercise is good for the body, he said it is also an avenue to promote the name and insurance products of the company for people within its environs.

He said: “We have been able to create awareness about insurance as we walk because people kept asking who we are and what we do and in the process of answering them, we are educating them and deepening insurance penetration,” he said.

While urging Nigerians to insure their risk exposures, he advised people to approach his underwriting firm for their general insurance products and services.

He advised Nigerians to insure their risks by subscribing to insurance products to take care of all their assets and restore any financial loss.