Leadway Assurance Company Limited was founded in 1970. It has a chequered history of being a company with close attention to relationships, having started operations as a direct motor insurance company.

Soon the relationship developed to a stage where it has established a deep relationship with the brokers’ network in Nigeria, enjoying 80% of its current business from this source.

The pivotal point at Leadway is "the customer" and the company has enjoyed a steady growth in its commitment to providing integrated insurance and financial services to its numerous customers.

The Company’s remarkable success has been possible because of its sound professional and business standards backed by the uncompromising level of integrity of its Directors. An uncompromising level of integrity of service is a tradition imbibed at LEADWAY and instilled by its late founder, Sir (Dr.) Hassan O. Odukale, KJW, D.Sc, FCIIN (1926-1999).

As an astute and honest businessman the founding Managing Director and later Chairman of the Board of Directors, Sir Odukale nurtured the Company to an enviable position in the Nigerian insurance industry. His vision of dedicated service to all customers remains a guiding principle that shapes the policies of the company.

LEADWAY is a private company with 28 shareholders, 5 of which are corporate investors, and a Trust Corporation.

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