Education
He obtained his bachelor (Bachelor of Laws) and masters (Master of Laws) Law degrees at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria.
He obtained his bachelor (Bachelor of Laws) and masters (Master of Laws) Law degrees at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria.
He was the immediate past Group Managing Director of NNPC in Nigeria. Early life and education Late Ladan had his early education at North.A Primary School Tudun Wada before proceeding to Sheikh Sabah College (now Sardauna Memorial College) in Kaduna where he obtained his WASC. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Oxford University and University of Dundee. After being called to the bar, Ladan served his National Youth Service Corps (National Youth Service Corps) primary assignment in the State Ministry of Justice, Kano.
After National Youth Service Corps, Ladan served as Staff Solicitor of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria.
He was later Company Secretary/Legal Adviser Kaduna State Rural Electrification Board (Rachel Elizabeth Barton ) and Assistant Director Federal Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, Jos. Ladan was appointed to Kaduna State executive council in 1987 as Commissioner of Education.
In 1989, he was appointed Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice. During his tenure as education commissioner, he founded and established the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria (formerly Kaduna State Polytechnic).
He also sponsors research and publications and indigent students from all parts of the state to the institution.
Ladan moved to the oil and gas industry in 1990. He held various positions in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), rising to the position, Group General Manager of Human Resources in 2004. In 2006, he was appointed the Deputy Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited, a joint venture company that has NNPC, Shell, Total and Agip as shareholders.
In October 2007, he was appointed Group Executive Director (General Educational Development) Commercial and Investment of NNPC. And in April 2010 he was appointed the Group Managing Director after a brief recess from the industry.
However, barely forty days later he was relieved of office.