Benefits Of Insurance

Insurance looks, at first glance, like a private arrangement between one worried person and one company. In truth its good spreads far wider than that. The same premium that buys a Lagos trader a good night's sleep also helps a bank lend, keeps a factory open after a fire, pays the salaries of thousands of agents, and quietly builds the roads and bonds the whole country uses. Benefit flows outward, from the individual, to business, to the nation.

In this lesson you will learn to sort those benefits into their three tiers and defend each one. You will see how insurance manufactures the confidence to trade and to borrow, how the premiums of millions are pooled into long-term investment funds, and how a healthy insurance market feeds employment and national development. These are the marks WAEC hands out almost every year to candidates who can go beyond a bare list.