Without needing to be told, the topic liability of cooperative insurance in Nigeria portends the gross nature of its many facts. The topic is more or loss as open one as most people would however, the research thought it right to limit the study to the first Enugu international cooperative insurance for the sake of convenience.
The project tries to delve into viability (and hence practicability of cooperative insurance in Nigeria it does this by trying to establish the workability of the statutory requirement cooperative insurance firms must meet before registration. Similarly, the issue of competition in the insurance industry is looked at especially when it concern the big firms already in the industry.
Government intervention in the affair of cooperative insurance is given a look with a view to suggesting ways result can be attained. The cooperative and insurance principle conflict were attempted to be resolved with a view of cross section of to marrying them and channeling them into these exercise sought the view of cross section of respondent who were knowledgeable as regarded the topic. Their view are presented sequentially and is hoped that at the end any one who goes trough thus will appreciate better the concept of cooperative insurance.
1.1 Introduction
In this section, the Viability of Cooperative Insurance in Nigeria is discussed, with relevant and recent citations. As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the aim and objectives of the study. Others are significance of the study, scope of work, research hypothesis and questions, limitation of the study and definition of terms.