The Federal Government has appointed Mr Kashifu Abdullahi as the new Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).
The appointment of Abdullahi was sequel to the nomination of Dr Isa Pantami, the outgoing director general of the agency as a minister designate by the President. Abdullahi until his appointment was a principal officer at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) who was on secondment to NITDA as a Technical Assistant to Pantami. Born on Feb. 21, 1980, Abdullahi is a graduate from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi state and the fifth director general of NITDA. He, in the past worked with the Galaxy Backbone Limited and has a number of professional certifications.
Mr Inuwa Kashifu Abdullahi, is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Sloan – trained strategist with 14+ years of experience in IT operations, business transformation and solution architecture, across both private and public sectors. He attended Leadership and Management courses at Harvard University in the USA, University of Cambridge in the UK and IMD Business School in Switzerland.
Mr Inuwa is a graduate of Computer Science from the prestigious Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi. He was born on 21st February, 1980 and hails from Hadejia Local Gov’t of Jigawa State.
He has worked in Galaxy Backbone as Network Engineer , IP Network Field Engineer, Senior Network & Lead, IP Operations Team, and Senior Solution Architect & Lead, Technical Solution Design Team between 2004 to 2013.
In 2014 he joined Nigeria’s Apex Bank (CBN) as a Technology Architect, where he dedicated his time to developing Technology Architecture Repository that gives 360 view of the Bank’s IT infrastructure and easy decision on new IT investment. He was part of the team that executed software license rationalization which has increased cost savings for the Bank in license annual subscriptions. Mr. Inuwa was a key resource in the development of IT standards for the Bank which has reduced mean time to deploy/integrate new system by over 20%. One of his major achievement as a Technology architect was the production of 7 Solution Architectures for critical IT initiatives that helped in achieving cashless society in Nigeria.