NEM celebrates ladies, pledges inclusive office

NEM Insurance coverage Plc, Nigeria’s main motor insurance coverage supplier, marked Worldwide Girls’s Day 2026 with a vibrant celebration, reaffirming its dedication to fostering an inclusive surroundings that empowers ladies to excel of their skilled and private endeavours.

Talking on the company headquarters in Lagos, the Chairman of NEM Insurance coverage Plc, Tope Good, acknowledged that the corporate stays resolute in its mission to assist ladies’s affairs, noting that their contributions are important to the sustainability of the insurance coverage trade.

Aligning with the worldwide theme ‘Give To Achieve’, Good highlighted that the insurance coverage supplier views gender range not simply as a company social accountability however as a core driver of innovation and high-level efficiency.

“Our dedication to feminine professionals at NEM Insurance coverage is unwavering,” Good declared in an announcement.

“We recognise that by ‘giving’ ladies the appropriate instruments, mentorship and management platforms, the trade ‘features’ unparalleled dedication and various views that transfer the needle of progress,” the assertion added.

NEM Insurance coverage harassed that it remained targeted on selling and supporting ladies’s development.

Including her voice to the celebration, the Basic Supervisor of Company Providers, Mrs Mojisola Teluwo, emphasised that the corporate’s gender-focused initiatives, such because the “She Means Enterprise” contest, symbolize a sensible method to inspiring inclusion.

Teluwo maintained that supporting women-led initiatives is a strategic funding within the cloth of society, relatively than only a philanthropic gesture.

“At NEM Insurance coverage, we imagine that when a girl thrives, a household thrives and the nation prospers,” Mrs Teluwo acknowledged.

“The ‘She Means Enterprise’ initiative is our means of shifting past mere applause for girls towards energetic, tangible assist. We’re proud to offer the monetary catalyst wanted for visionary ladies to show their enterprise aspirations into actuality,” she added.

To mark the event, the management outlined a number of key pillars of assist designed to drive long-term impression. These embrace focused management growth and coaching programmes to arrange extra ladies for executive-level decision-making, in addition to the upkeep of an inclusive work tradition that balances skilled progress with private well-being. Moreover, the corporate is appearing as an financial catalyst by offering grants {and professional} frameworks to assist feminine entrepreneurs scale up their operations.

The occasion featured a sequence of inside classes the place feminine workers engaged in mentorship dialogues specializing in profession development inside the evolving panorama of the Nigerian insurance coverage sector.

The celebration additionally included a ‘Paint and Sip’ session, which supplied a chance for girls to showcase their creativity in a relaxed setting. Good concluded by urging different trade stakeholders to prioritise the event of feminine expertise, asserting {that a} extra inclusive sector is a extra affluent one for all Nigerians.