Danbello Na'adiyalle

Danbello is a partner of Alliance Law Firm.  He has had 35 years experience as an In-house Corporate Legal Counsel, two of which were spent at the Legal Department of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc and the remaining 33 years at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC where he retired as the Managing Director, NNPC Pension Fund Limited. While at NNPC, Danbello worked in several departments and held several positions some of which were Head, Litigation Unit; Deputy Chief, Commercial Law Department (within the Corp. Legal Division); Technical Assistant to the Secretary to the Corporation & Legal Adviser; Manager, Board and Management Committee; 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 Beninoise de Gaz, Benin Republic).

Upon his return from WAGPco Ghana, Danbello was posted to the Corporate Law Department as General Manager from where he was promoted to Group General Manager (GGM) and appointed as the Managing Director, NNPC Pension Fund Limited, a position he held until his statutory retirement.

• Oil and Gas
• Corporate and Commercial Law

• Government and public policy
• Mining
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas

• Ahmadu Bello University (LL.B Hons)
• Nigerian Law School (BL)
• University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Aresty Institute of Executive Education, USA
• Harvard Business School (USA)