Royal Exchange cedes 39% stakes to German investor

    A German firm, InsuResilience Investment Fund (IIF), has acquired 39.25 per cent stake Royal Exchange General Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Royal Exchange Plc.     IIF), established by the German Development Bank (KfW) and managed by by Swiss based Impact Investment Manager, BlueOrchard Finance Investment Limited (“BlueOrchard”), is by the acquisition injecting a total of N3.6 billion into REGIC, which is expected to boost the firm’s chances of meeting National Insurance Commission’s (NAICOM) directive for insurance companies to increase their share capital.     As one of…

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AFCON: How Super Eagles played without being insured

  …as pact between NFF, Wapic Insurance crashes     As the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) finally comes to an end, reports have revealed that none of Nigerian players is among top 10 African internationals with the highest insurance value; a development that further unveils the low ranking of players from African most populous and resource endowed country.   This is coming just as New Telegraph finding also revealed that the much celebrated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) and Wapic Insurance Plc in respect of…

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