Alhaji Ismaila Aderemi Bello, MSc FCA
Alhaji Ismaila Aderemi Bello is Fellow Chartered Accountant, Fellow Chartered Tax Practitioner and member Institute of Directors (IOD). An Alumnus of Lagos Business School and has attended several professional courses both at home and abroad. He holds BSc and MSc in Accounting.
Remi Bello is currently District Governor of Rotary District 9110, immediate past Managing Director/CEO of Crittall-Hope Nigeria Limited and Past President, Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry.Bayo Yusuf
Bayo Yusuf, a former Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of UBA Pensions Custodian Limited, a leading pension assets custody company in Nigeria. A Chartered Insurer with significant corporate experience in strategy, risk management, corporate governance, actuarial science, pensions, trusteeship, asset management, and custodian functions that have spanned over 28 years. Bayo is a Graduate of Actuarial Science from the University of Lagos and a Chartered Stockbroker.
Bayo was a member of the Executive Committee of the Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp), an independent self-regulation body for pension industry in Nigeria, and a former Chairman, Shared Service Committee of the Association, where he led various initiatives to improve the operational processes and efficiency within the pension industry.
An alumnus of the Lagos Business School and IESE Business School, Spain as well as a member of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Nigeria.
Arafat Olayinka Balogun
Arafat Olayinka Balogun is an alumnus of University of Miami, Coral Gables and University of Virginia, Charlottesville. She holds an A.B in Politics and Public Affairs and a J.D (Law); M.A in Middle East & American Foreign Policy and an LLM (Corporate Finance & Taxation).
She is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.Arafat has had a rewarding career in Law, Compliance and Banking spanning over 25 years. A pioneer Chief Compliance Officer at United Bank for Africa Plc. She currently provides legal and advisory services to several local and multinational companies.
Azizat Mohammed
Azizat Mohammed is a Chartered Management Consultant, a Strategist and institutional development specialist with extensive experience in the delivery of business solutions, governance, strategy development, digital solutions, agribusiness, and pensions systems.
Azizat is currently the Founder/CEO of Rubric Strategies Consulting, an innovative & strategic Firm in Nigeria. She holds BSc and MSc in Biology and Environmental Biology respectively.
Paschal Idowu
Paschal Idowu holds a BSc in Insurance, MBA in Human Resources Management and M.Ed in Community Development from the University of Lagos, Lagos State University and University of Ibadan.
A Chartered Insurer, Full Member, Nigerian Institute of Management, Consummate Management & Community Consultant with varied professional and technical experience; he has worked with foremost Brokerage, Underwriting and Consulting Organizations at Management levels in a career spanning over three decades.
He has attended key and strategic courses facilitated locally and across the borders, aside active engagement, and participation in a number of enterprise recapture, transformation and re-engineering programs.
Godwin Emuejevoke Onoro
Godwin is a professional and growth focused Pension Executive with over Fifteen (15) years’ experience in the pension industry. He has managed all aspects of the operations of a Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) as an Executive Director for over Seven (7) years and an Acting Managing Director for Six (6) months. Godwin graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Benin. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Accountants of Nigeria and a dealing clerk of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Prior to joining Pensions Alliance Limited, Godwin worked as a senior auditor at Vee Networks (Now Airtel), Audit Team Manager at Guinness Nigeria Plc, Resident Inspector at Crystal Bank (now UBA Plc), Assistant Internal Auditor/Project Accountant at Nestle Nigeria Plc and an audit trainee at Eyewumi, Rone & Co Chartered Accountants.
Godwin has attended several executive/leadership programmes at the Lagos Business School, London Business school and the Columbia Business School in New York
Maryam Ibrahim Bello
Maryam Ibrahim Bello is a highly accomplished financial services and regulatory expert with over three decades of leadership experience spanning pension administration, banking operations, enterprise data governance, and institutional transformation.
She brings exceptional depth in Nigeria’s pension ecosystem, having played a pivotal role in strengthening the regulatory and operational architecture of the industry during her tenure at the National Pension Commission (PenCom), where she served as Acting Director and Head of the National Databank Management Department.
Maryam was instrumental in driving some of the most impactful digital and structural reforms in the Nigerian pension industry. She led key initiatives such as the automation and integrity enhancement of the national pension contributor database, the implementation of the RSA Transfer Platform, and large-scale data recapture and validation exercises. These initiatives significantly improved transparency, data accuracy, regulatory compliance, and service delivery across Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) and Pension Fund Custodians (PFCs).
Her core expertise spans regulatory advisory, pension system design and implementation, enterprise data governance, operational transformation, and stakeholder engagement. She has a strong track record of designing and executing complex, multi-stakeholder programmes, making her uniquely positioned to support sub-national governments, corporates, and institutions in the adoption and optimization of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) in line with the Pension Reform Act 2014.
At Confiance Employee Benefits Advisory Limited, Maryam provides strategic leadership in pension reform advisory, helping clients navigate policy design, implementation frameworks, and operational excellence within the employee benefits space.
She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from Usmanu Danfodiyo University and a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication from Bayero University Kano. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Project Managers, a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered), and an active participant in Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ). She has also completed Course 1 of the Chartered Institute of Directors programme as part of her progression toward full membership.