Danbello Sani Na'adiyalle

Danbello Sani Na'adiyalle is a Partner at Alliance Law Firm. He has 35 years of experience as an in-house corporate legal counsel — two years at the Legal Department of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc (1985–1987) and the remaining 33 years at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) (1987–2019), where he retired as Managing Director, NNPC Pension Fund Limited. At NNPC, Danbello worked across several departments and held multiple positions, including Head, Litigation Unit; Deputy Chief, Commercial Law Department (within the Corporate Legal Division); Technical Assistant to the Secretary to the Corporation & Legal Adviser; Manager, Board and Management Committee; and General Counsel, West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited, Accra, Ghana — a joint venture gas pipeline company between NNPC, Chevron, Shell, VRA Ghana, Sotogaz Togo, and Société Béninoise de Gaz, Benin Republic. Upon his return from WAGPCo Ghana, he was posted to the Corporate Law Department as General Manager, from where he was promoted to Group General Manager (GGM) and appointed Managing Director, NNPC Pension Fund Limited, a position he held until his statutory retirement in 2019. Education: Ahmadu Bello University (LL.B Hons); Nigerian Law School (BL). Associations: Nigerian Bar Association; International Bar Association. Recognition: Presidential Recognition for putting in place a multi-billion dollar funding arrangement for Nigeria LNG Limited Trains 1 and 2 (as a team member); GMD, NNPC Merit Award. Practice areas: Oil and Gas; Corporate and Commercial Law. Danbello has completed executive programmes including Leadership and Management Courses at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (Aresty Institute of Executive Education, USA) and Finance for Non-Financial Professionals at Harvard Business School, USA; the International Law Institute, Washington DC (International Oil and Gas Seminar; Arbitration and Mediation Seminar; International Project Procurement and Contract Negotiation Seminar; International Oil and Gas Development Seminar); and the University of Dundee Centre for Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, Scotland (International Mining Investment; Creating New Energy Infrastructure in Developing Countries — Policy Issues & Legal Consideration, organised in collaboration with NNPC, CPS).