Ahmed Gobir is a highly skilled, dedicated and licensed HR Professional and Corporate Lawyer with over 30 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, a Bachelor of Laws (LL. B) and Barrister at Law (BL).
He is a Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. His journey with the HR profession started with the Chartered Institute of Personnel management in 1989 when he was admitted into the Institute as an AFFILIATE from where he gradually rose through the grades to become a FELLOW in 2006. His service to CIPM over the course of his 34 years of membership include but are not limited to the following:
- Chairman Professional Conduct & Ethics Committee CIPM
- Chairman Audit Committee CIPM
- Member Board of Fellows of CIPM
- Elected Council Member Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM)
- Member Governing Council of CIPM
- Member Board of Trustees, CIPM Members’ Multipurpose Cooperative Society
- Branch Secretary & Chairman CIPM Kaduna Branch
Mr. Gobir has worked in the public and private sector for over 30 years starting his career in the public service as a Personnel/Industrial Relations Officer in 1985 with the Ajaokuta Steel Company Ltd from where he moved to the private sector in 1990 as Industrial Relations Manager and later Company Secretary/Head HR at Cotton & Agric. Processors Ltd. He joined Crittall-Hope Nigeria Ltd in 2001 where he rose to the position of Managing Director/CEO in 2013 after serving for 13 years in previous roles as General Manager/Group Head HR and Group Company Secretary/Legal Adviser with the Company.
In 2018, he joined the Dangote Cement Plc Group as a Senior General Manager and was designated as Regional HR Advisor & Head Organisation Development (Pan Africa). He was subsequently promoted Group General Manager and redesignated as Strategic HR Business Partner for the Commercial & Anglophone Subsidiaries of Dangote Cement Plc overseeing the 6 Anglophone Countries of Ethiopia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. In these two roles, he had served as Senior HR Advisor at Dangote Cement Ethiopia PLC and Senior HR Advisor at Dangote Cement Zambia Ltd respectively.
Mr. Gobir is a former Honourable Commissioner for Commerce, Industry & Co-operatives and member of the Kwara State Executive Council and had at various times served on the Boards of various companies, State and Federal Government parastatals and Committees either as Director or Board Member acquiring extensive corporate and boardroom experience over time. Some of these include:
- Chairman Kwara State Investment & Property Development Co. Ltd, Ilorin
- Chairman Kwara State Industrial Trust Fund Ltd, Ilorin
- Member National Labour Advisory Council (NLAC), Fed. Min. of Labour.
- Member Governing Board, National Bureau of Statistics
- Member National Steering Committee, Open Government Partnership, Fed. Min of Justice
- Member Federal Govt. Tripartite Committee on the Review of the Minimum Wage
- Member Governing Board, Kaduna State Water Corporation
- Vice President Manufacturers Association of Nigeria
- Chairman Small & Medium Industries Committee of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria.
- Chairman Legal Advisory Committee of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria
- Member Governing Council of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria.
- Director Crittall-Hope Kaduna Ltd, Kaduna
- Director Woodkraft Industries Ltd, Kaduna
- Partner Gobir Gobir & Co. (Legal Practitioners)
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP
- Fellow Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria
- Fellow Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered)
- Member Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
- Member International Bar Association (IBA)
- Member Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA)
