Ahmed Ladan Gobir

Mr. Ahmed Ladan Gobir is a highly skilled, dedicated and licensed HR Professional and Corporate Lawyer with over 35 years hands on experience in both the public and private sector. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) specialising in Management and a Bachelor of Laws (LL. B). He is a Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

He has worked in the public and private sector for over 35 years starting his career in the public service as a Personnel/Industrial Relations Officer in 1985 with the Ajaokuta Steel Company Ltd and rising in the private sector to the position of Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Crittall-Hope Nigeria Ltd in 2013 after serving for 12 years as General Manager & Company Secretary/Legal Adviser.

In 2018, he joined the Dangote Cement Plc Group which is the biggest cement group in Africa and the largest employer of labour in Nigeria outside the Government. He is currently Group General Manager/Strategic HR Business Partner for the Commercial & Anglophone Subsidiaries of Dangote Cement Plc overseeing and providing strategic human resource leadership and support to the 6 Anglophone Country Subsidiaries of:

1. Dangote Cement Ethiopia PLC
2. Dangote Cement Ghana Ltd
3. Dangote Cement Sierra Leone Ltd
4. Dangote Cement South Africa
5. Dangote Cement Ltd Tanzania
6. Dangote Cement Zambia Ltd.

In this capacity, he had also served as HR Advisor at Dangote Cement Ltd Tanzania (2019), HR Advisor at Dangote Cement Ethiopia Plc (2021) and HR Advisor at Dangote Cement Zambia Ltd (2022).

Mr. Gobir is a former Honourable Commissioner for Commerce, Industry & Co-operatives and member of the State Executive Council. He had at various times served on the Boards of various companies, State and Federal Government parastatals and committees as Director and Board Member acquiring extensive corporate and boardroom experience over time. Some of these include:

 

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