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Nigerian entrepreneur
Bala Wunti (born 1970) is a Nigerian entrepreneur who has served as the Chief Health, Safety, and Environment Officer of NNPC since 2025.
Bala was born in 1970 in Bauchi State, Nigeria, where he attended Government Science School in Toro, Bauchi State for his secondary education. He was admitted to Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, where he had a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. Wunti also hold a master’s degree from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University.[when?] Wunti is a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science and the Chemical Society of Nigeria.[1]
Wunti started working for NNPC in 1991. He was the senior technical advisor and general manager of the efficiency unit to the group’s managing director from 2010 to 2015 and from 2015 to 2016, respectively. He held other positions such as General Manager and Technical Advisor on Downstream from 2016 to 2017 and the Group General Manager of NNPC Corporate Planning and Strategy from 2017 to 2019. From 2019 to 2020, he was appointed the Managing Director of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC). In 2025, he was appointed as the Chief Health, Safety, and Environment Officer of NNPC.[2] He was one of the figures who saw to the review and amendment of the 1993 Deep Offshore Act aimed to improve government production sharing contracts, re-negotiation of the contracts after stalemate of about two decades, and other commercial negotiations.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
