INTRODUCTION An emerging African finance center FACTS & FIGURES INTERVIEW: SEBASTIAN ADIGWE ‘Most of the objectives we have set for ourselves have been reached’ INSURANCE SECTOR Insuring the future of the industry SKYE BANK Nigeria’s newest bank takes the reins INTERVIEW: AKINSOLA AKINFEMIWA ‘Skye Bank, as the youngest in the emerging market, is just at the beginning of our niche’ UNIVERSAL INSURANCE plc Mastering the risk cycle Q&A WITH CYRIL AJAGU, vice CHAIRMAN OF universal insurance PLC. ‘We want to get things right, now and in the future’ INSURANCE Investing in value and boosting life assurance in fast-growing market MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Amalgamation places Nigerian insurance sector at center of attention A NEW ALLIANCE Expansion will put new capital to work STANDARD ALLIANCE INSURANCE GROUP Top-10 insurer’s growth benefits blue-chip clients INTERVIEW: OLOROGUN O'TEGA EMERHOR ‘We are positioning ourselves to address the middle tier of the market’ INVESTMENTS & ALLIED ASSURANCE Protecting Nigeria’s new wave of investors across the board RELENTECH The oil majors’ partner in the field GEOMETRIC POWER LTD State funding helps Geometric Power to light Nigeria’s path GRANT PROPERTIES Building an even business against the odds EKO HOTELS An oasis of calm in the business heart of Nigeria Advertisers PDF