{"id":10130,"date":"2017-02-09T09:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T08:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=10130"},"modified":"2017-04-13T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:33:09","slug":"dan-abia-bassey","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/dan-abia-bassey\/","title":{"rendered":"DAN-ABIA, Bassey"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cor porate Lawyer. Banker, Politician, Former Special Ad viser to the Hon. Minister of Petroleum and Minerai Resources, Head of Chambers, Dan Abia Cham bers, Lagos; LGA: Es it Aug. 23, 1957; Married \\vith a child; Education: Salvation Anny Sec. Sch. Akai, Nsit Ub ium LGA, 1970 – 74: WASC; Hope Waddell Training Instn, Calabar, 1975-77, HSC\/A’Level; Univ . of Lagos, Lagos. 1977-80, LLB; 1986-87, LLM; Nigeria Law School: Lagos. 1980 -8 I: BL; Other Qua[ification: McGeorge Law School, Ulli v. of Pacific. Sacramento, California. USA, 1989, Post Graduate Cert in International Business and Co mmercial Law; Career and Work History: Legal Office r. Kano State Police command Kano. 198 1-82 (NYSC): Counsel-in-Chambers, Dickson Osuala and Co. Lagos: 1992; Senior State Counsel, Min. of Justice. Calabar, 1982-83: Legal Office r. ICON Ltd (Merchant Bankers), 1983-86; Legal Officer, 1986-88; Asst. Manager, 1989: Deputy Manager ,-1990, Manager, 199 1 -92; Senior Manager, 1993-94; Special AsstiAdviserto the Hon. Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, 1994-95: Head of Chambers, Dan Abia Chambers, Lagos, 1995present: Career Related Activities and Responsibilities: Director, Uquo Conununity Bank Ltd. ; Esit\u00b7 Eket LOA; I 992-present; Asst. Company 5.:cretary, ICON Ltd. (Merchant bankers), 1990-94; legal Adviser and Head of Legal Services and Trustees Dept., 1990-93; Participant, first Conferc nce of Attorneys General, Abuja, 1988; Corporate Law Seminar, Grays Inn of Court, London, 1989: Exports Negotiation Seminar, Hong-Kong People’s Republic of China, 1990; Major Conference\/ Seminars of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. (OPEC). Geneva, Vienna, Bali, Staranger and so on, 1994; Special Work Related Achievements: Special Asst.!Adviser to Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, 1994-95. Publications: Presented major papers in several Confere nc es, Seminars and Workshops: Political Activities: Deputy National Legal Adviser, National Ce nter Party of Nigeria, (NCPN) 1996; National Officer: Mem .. 1996; Professional Memberships: Mem, Nigerian Bar Asscn; Mem, Assen of Corporate Lawyers of Nigeria; Hobbies: Reading, Travelling. Swim ming; Office: Dan Abia Chambers, 27\/29 King George V Road, Onikan, Lagos, Lagos State: Home: 16 Eket Road, Eket , Akwa Ibom State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10130","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10130"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}