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National Insurance Company of Ethiopia S.C. (NICE), one of the insurance firms in Ethiopia, lost its CEO, Tedros Bogale. His resignation, according to Fortune, is going to be effective from January 7, 2017.

Nigma Motors and Spare Parts Plc, a sister company of Nigma Agro Industry has begun assembling automobiles with 57 million Birr capital, Addis Fortune reported.

Nile Insurance S.C. reported Birr 560.5 million in pre tax profit for the 2024/25 fiscal year, a 16.6 percent increase from Birr 480.6 million the previous year, according to its annual report.

Melaku Sissay, Nile Insurance’s CEO for the, resigned from his position that he held since last years. His resignation came a week after the company presented its performance report for its shareholders. The Insurer has also confirmed that the company’s board of directors replaced Melaku by the claims manager, Hailu Mekonnen. The board’s appointment has also been approved by the National Bank of Ethiopia.

Bank of Abyssinia shares auctioned by Nile Insurance S.C has attracted bid 224 percent above their par value. Nile Insurance S.C is disposing shares it owned in the bank following a 2008 law which caps the maximum amount of shares a shareholder can hold in a bank to 5 percent of the bank's capital.

In a bid to comply with the law, Nile Insurance, is reducing its shares worth 49.2 million Ethiopian birr to 31.5 million birr by offering for sale 708,704 shares. The National Bank of Ethiopia has set a three year timetable, which will expire in August 2013, for "influential Share holders" to reduce their interest to the maximum amount required by the law.