The Managing Director of Ultimate Health Management Services, Otunba Lekan Ewenla, has won the African Health Maintenance Organization Chief Executive Officer Leadership Award for 2026.According to the organizers of the yearly award, the African CEO Leadership Award is aimed at identifying, validating, celebrating and amplifying “the impact of Africa’s most transformative Chief Executives and Senior Business Leaders.”
Ewenla, in an interview with journalists on Monday, said the award was in recognition of the outstanding performance of his organization in the health insurance industry, which is driven with strong innovation professionalism and customer satisfaction.
He stated, “We recognize the fact that the health insurance is designed to make healthcare affordable, accessible and equitable to all Nigerians and we have been strongly committed to achieving that objective with strong collaboration with critical stakeholders like the regulator, the National Health Insurance Authority and the network of accredited healthcare facilities.
Ewenla explained, “Recently, the management of Ultimate Health HMO adopted the Group, Individual and Family Social Health Insurance Program – GIFSHIP for direct exposure to the operators in the informal sector and the operators of small and medium scale businesses in the country. This step was to make health care affordable and accessible to approximately 75 percent of Nigerians operating in the informal sector.
