Everyone knows the importance of saving but very few actually save. No thanks to a plethora of circumstances: a limited income, skyrocketing bills, unstable economy etc. But then, are you one of those who desire to grow some savings in spite of the bleak situation? Do you have a project in mind? A new car? A wedding? Or even a vacation? Ladies and gentlemen, let’s help you save at your pace and you can make good interests on your savings too! Check out FlexiSave and Sabi Savers; two exciting savings plans from Sanlam Life Insurance. For further enquiries, Call 01-9054380, 01-9054364-5, 01-9054444. or email wecare@sanlam.com.ng

Want to get the best out of life? Let’s show you how. Getting the best out of life does not just happen; you plan it. The choices you make today will aid your realities tomorrow. The question is: What kind of tomorrow do you want for yourself? One predicated on chance or one ironed out to the minutest detail, to ensure you lead the life you’ve always wanted? At Sanlam Life Insurance Limited, we do not just sell insurance; we offer ourselves as your financial services partner in the journey towards a fulfilled life. We have an array of innovative products designed with you in mind. Take our Easy Save policy for example. This policy helps you put aside some money for short term projects with an interest of 5% on your savings. Instead of joining an ‘ajo’ or ‘esusu’ group where you need to start hoping that other members of the group pay their contributions when due, why not take our Easy Save policy and be in total control of...Read more

When Segun got his call-up letter, he had one thing in mind: to enjoy all of the service year. After all, the famous NYSC tales he’d been told by his brothers were about to become a reality. He woke up every morning in camp looking ahead to what each day would bring. One of such days opened his eyes to a means of convenient savings that was to help him kick-start his post-university life on a good footing. On the day, a team of Financial Advisors from Sanlam Life Insurance besieged the camp, educating and sensitizing the Corp members on the importance of insurance. One product they sold to the corpers was the Sanlam Life Insurance EasySave Plan, a one-year savings plan designed with people like him in mind. He wasted no time in signing up with N10, 000 per month. He had plans. By the time Youth Service was over, he had accumulated a total sum of N124, 800, which was to become the seed fund for his current Snail Farming business. Looking to st...Read more

The retirement party was as colourful as the celebrant’s career. For the retiring paediatrician, Dr. Sylvanus Ikechukwu, however, his mind was far from the back-slapping and wine-guzzling going on around him. He knew exactly what he wanted in retirement. Surely, he was not going to take up any job again having worked actively for the past 41 of his 69 years, sacrificing family and his youth for the Hippocratic Oath. Now that the children were already fathers and mothers themselves, he was determined to spend the rest of his life seeing the modern world with Anne, his devoted wife of 43 years. But the snag was choosing the right investment he could always fall back on. ”Happy retirement, Uncle.” Chidinma, his niece who worked as an Annuity Sales Manager at Sanlam Life Insurance, interrupted his soliloquy. A couple of you’re-now-a-big-girl, where-is-your-husband pleasantries later, Chidinma had introduced her company’s Guaranteed Li...Read more

When the family head informed Paulinus of the demise of Mazi Okafor, he knew it was time to once again fulfil his moral and familial obligations. A village boy who rose to become a top executive at a thriving oil servicing firm in Port Harcourt, Paulinus, son of Okpala the palmwine tapper, owed his entire career to four people. After he lost his dad at the age of eight, some elders wanted him to take up his dad’s business. But a group of four, led by the now-late Mazi Okafor, insisted he continued his schooling. This group ensured his tuition and other sundry fees were paid as at due up till the University. In gratitude, as he made money, he ensured they enjoyed the good things of life as they advanced in years. Last year, he had buried one of them, the one her August Meeting mates nicknamed ‘Classy’. Aunty Classy’s funeral had cost him a sizeable amount. Knowing he still had three others he owed the very best, he sought support. He fou...Read more

Chief Komolafe was the President of the Friends’ Assembly Cooperative Union (FACU) for two years. In those years, his astute managerial abilities and humane leadership qualities endeared him to all and sundry. His popularity was such that many times, members mooted the possibility of extending his tenure beyond the constitutional two years. Until one loan facility changed everything. His friend of many years had gone broke in the middle of an important project. Desperate for funds, he ran to Chief Komolafe for help. Chief advised him to join the Cooperative, run the account for a while and then request a loan facility. But his friend did not have the luxury of time. He convinced Chief to use his own account to stand for him. Chief did; got the loan and gave his friend. Midway into the repayment plan, Chief’s friend was involved in a car crash. He lost both legs and became confined to a wheelchair. Chief was devastated that his friend’s une...Read more

“I am sorry my brother, things are really tight now. I no get any change at all. Sorry.” That was the text message Jerry got from Frank, his friend of many years, in response to his request for a hundred-thousand-naira loan. Frank’s was the sixth of such kind of messages he had received in the past two hours. But Franks’ opened his eyes to the general paucity of funds in the system; for Frank was never broke. Jerry heaved heavily as he collapsed in his chair. He needed urgent cash to settle his children’s tuition. Since he was relieved of his job exactly a year ago, he had gone from interview to interview to no avail. Last term, he was only able to pay the children’s tuition because of the lump sum pay-out he got from his pension fund administrator. Now after sorting the rent and other domestic needs, he was as broke as a joke. Now that no one seemed to have any spare change, he’d have to find a less prestigious sch...Read more

He had no inkling what the day held in store for him. Had he known, perhaps, he would have postponed the trip to a later date. But life sounds no warning bells; it just happens. While saying his goodbyes to his wife and son, he had promised them headed be back in the evening. But he never fulfilled this promise. Eye witnesses recounted how the Lagos-bound Nissan Urvan bus he was travelling in from Akure ran into a slow moving fuel tanker just before Ibadan. The bus caught fire on collision. Other road users watched helplessly as the inferno consumed all 14 passengers on board. A couple of days after the accident, his bereaved and out-of-sorts widow got a call from a certain Angela, a Financial Advisor with Sanlam Life Insurance. After commiserating with her on the death of her husband, Angela informed her she was the beneficiary to an Sanlam Life Insurance Family Income Protection Plan her husband had been running and that she was calling to put her through th...Read more