By Sola Alabadan
Leadway Assurance achieved a Total premium of N104.4 billion income in 2022, as it recorded a Gross Written Premium of N92.5 billion, while Savings & Investment was N10.8 billion and another N1.1 billion from its Ivorien Insurance subsidiary.
Speaking at the company’s 51st Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday, the Managing Director, Mr. Tunde Hassan-Odukale, stated that the group recorded a 26% increase in Total Premium from N83 billion in 2021 to N104.4 billion in 2022, attributing the growth to the business’s ability to acquire new businesses for Group Life and its capacity to renew existing businesses.
Leadway also paid claims totalling N57.5 billion, thereby showcasing the benefits of insurance as an intervening tool in preventing financial losses.
He emphasised the company’s commitment to prompt claims payment to its esteemed policyholders despite the uncertainties and complexities surrounding the economic realities in the country and across the world.
Besides, the company equally consolidated its financial strength in the year under review having increased its total asset base from N502 billion in 2021 to N535 billion in 2022, while Risk Premium significantly rose from N71 billion in the previous year to N93 billion in the year under review.
Odukale said “We are delighted in the company’s 2022 financial performance that saw us record yet another industry milestone of improved claims payout to policyholders, despite the prevailing economic conditions and the debilitating double-digit inflationary pressures. This is duly attributable to our attractiveness to new customers and the confidence of existing ones to renew their policy contracts, affording us the headroom for growth and enabling our unwavering commitment to our policyholders.
“We remain well-positioned, strengthened and financially secured to continuously deliver our mandate of outstanding risk management and wealth creation to our policyholders. We continue to sustain value creation to our stakeholders and as market leaders, bolster customers’ confidence in the industry. This performance further amplifies our quest to deepen insurance penetration in Nigeria and on the continent”, Odukale stated.
In his remarks, the company’s Chairman, General Martin Luther Agwai said, “As a flexible and market-sensitive Company, we remain resilient and resolute in the execution of our business strategy as well as our engagement with stakeholders across the value chain. We remain firmly committed to intensifying and amplifying our group synergy towards enhancing our business reach and replicating successes achieved in Nigeria across other regions in Africa”.
