sonnie10:
Only first degree, others are certificate programs. He is just a technical guy not an administrator. Don’t be surprised that all those big name schools were just seminars.
This guy at most would be a supervisor in a company in a sane climate.

You are on point, mere online courses, or conference and seminars and bang

How do one stop coughing, when their is an obvious cough!!!

stanelvis:



Did you see his impressive profile.
Sometimes we need to look beyond tribe to get things done.

Sorry, I refused to be fooled by this appointment based on nepotism. You can fool others not familiar with this sector with his sham profile but not me!

What an impressive profile coming from the youth. Wish you best of luck in all your career me Abdul.

His profile is tight


No words here


Hausa or not

wow!

QuotaSystem:
MIT, Cambridge, Harvard. Quite an impressive profile for his age. Many years of cognate experience.

These are the kind of brains Nigeria needs to really move to the next level.

Congratulations and be a good ambassador of us.

What did he study there

congrats to him

anonimi:


What groundbreaking achievement has been made in ICT by the agency since its establishment

Exactly

ajealadick:


Yes like to the slapping senator Elisha?

The blunder or shortcomings of one person shouldn't be used to generalise all. we are humans with different minds, reasoning and approach. It's quite early in the morning to start thinking southward. Thank you!

amuwo1980:


See these useless hirelings, break down for us what he studied at MIT , probably you all are working in cahoots with the guy to paint the image of a technical sound person, we know the truth, there scores of more qualified Nigerians from other parts of the country, this is why u northerners used boko haram to wrest power from Jonathan, cronyism and bigotry is your way of life

idiot appreciate good tinx for once in in ur soory life water na him full ur brain guy

QuotaSystem:


Your brain is clearly useless to you.

Why not dispute his qualifications if you can? That's more useful than being a pathetic victim of your insecurities.

don't mind d rascal

b3llo:
Interesting, not too young to run in play. I hope 2023 Buhari will hand over to an under 40 president

If Nigerians vote for one and don't tell them to go and start from councillor or local government chairman, I'm sure PMB won't have a choice.

amuwo1980:


Your name says it all, a scion of failures , a stain on the face of humanity , a disgrace to black race , that's what u and ppl(Buhari) like you are.

So much bitterness with zero logic...

It must really suck to be you

MrWTF:
quite impressive.

Na only northerners him dey appoint sef.

There's no southerner with his qualifications, biitch.

mmb:
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi as the new Director-General/CEO of the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA.

The appointment was disclosed by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu.


Below is the profile of the new NITDA helmsman

Born on February 21, 1980, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi is a graduate of Computer Science from the prestigious Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.

Mr Abdullahi is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Sloan – trained strategist with 15 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.

As the 1st Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) in Nigeria’s Public Sector, he is also a certified project manager and solution architect. He also has many professional certifications in networking, telecommunications, service management and Solution design such as: Huawei telecommunications engineer, Cisco design professional, ITIL, Prince2, etc.



He has worked at 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 Central Bank of Nigeria (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 Abdullahi was a key resource in the development of IT standards for the apex bank, which has reduced mean time to deploy/integrate new system by over 20%. One of his major achievements as a Technology architect was the production of 7 Solution Architectures for critical IT initiatives that helped in achieving cashless society in Nigeria.

He joined NITDA in 2017 as Technical Assistant to the Director General/CEO. Being the IT regulatory body in Nigeria mandated to implement National ICT policy, he Managed execution of strategy which has increased ICT contribution to Nigerian GDP by over 13% in Q2 2018.



The new DG coordinated Local Content initiatives that has increased ICT local production by over 200% in 2017.

He also overhauled IT clearance process and encouraged shared services among agencies. This has helped Federal Government saved over 16Bn NGN from IT projects.

Mr Abdullahi also oversaw procurement process that has reduced cost of major projects by over 5% in two consecutive annual procurement cycles.

Additionally, he managed project execution that has implemented over 300 IT infrastructure intervention.



Mr Abdullahi is a member of both British Computer Society (BCS) and Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) in addition to many memberships to his credit.

He is a recipient of 100 Leading Telecom and ICT Personalities in Nigeria – By Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON).

Mr Abdullahi is from Hadejia, Jigawa State, and he is married with children.

https://dailynigerian.com/kashifu-abdullahi-the-39-year-old-dg-of-nitda-and-architect-of-cashless-banking-in-nigeria/

Enuff!he is over qualified,how much will he b paid?I advice him to join Microsoft Corp.

Princedapace:


My dear, I no longer worry my self about northerners. They simply find it hard to survive outside govt agencies. If u take a look at our private sectors, if u take a look at the startups with massive potentials, if u take a look at companies built from nothing to something, u will hardly see any Mohamed this, Yusuf that, simply put, u will struggle to find a northerner there or behind it. U will mainly hear Yoruba and igbo names and south south south names. Same thing on competitions, especially educational competitions, u will mainly see Yoruba, igbos and south south names making waves. Once in while, u may see northern name, rarely o.

But when u go to govt agencies, u begin to hear Mohamed, Yusuf, Abdul, etc. U got my point? U begin to see northerner Muslim names. How often do u see them win educational competitions? Look at nollywood and our music industry, yorubas, igbos and South South people helped to make the industry what it is today.

Northern region simply survives mainly on govt positions which they get mainly based on tribal sentiments from the various northern leaders who have led this country. The other day, there was a post about some of Nigeria's finest startups, there was none by any northerners.
A-side natural resources, southern Nigeria has human resources that is well tapped.

That is why I get so hurt when I see how igbos and yorubas fight and the north keep taking advantage of it.

A-side known govt ministries, go to top govt agencies, na northerner names u go see heading the place. I was at a FG agency the other time, around last year, a particular section was filled with people from the north and the head of thay section also from the north. Some of these guys working with him from the north couldnt even write well or speak well.


Southern Nigeria would have become the centre of Africa's development if our southern politicians weren't greedy and selfish. The southern politicians only care about their selfish interest that is why they can't challenge northerner leaders. Southerners are like slaves working for northern Nigeria.. What u just discovered is how it is dear. These people see government positions as birth rights. I sincerely give it to southern citizens for creating things out of nothing for themselves.
Look at education, entertainments, science, Arts, startups, tech, commerce, etc, southerners are the ones creating something out of nothing. I just wish yorubas and igbos can stop their cold war and work together. The two are really great nations.

The British conquared the world not by population but by education, if u claim to be educated than the northerners and u cant wrestle power from them and rule them the ur education is useless. There are very few northerners as soldiers in the 60s, how come the few uneducated northerns almajiris took over power from the educated southerns and rule them

Northerners EVERYWHERE

Northerners in every appointment

LIFELESS should be crown king of NEPOTISM

What an impressive profile. Time to work and prove all these accolades.

stanelvis:



Did you see his impressive profile.
Sometimes we need to look beyond tribe to get things done.

I'm sure that others from several other regions have same or even better profiles

Good move.

Ayotemide:


its ironical, your name says it all. Can we argue with you and drag your pay at the end of the month from you? No!

Arguing with your likes is like trying to wake a man who is pretending to be asleep. Can you swallow your bile and dispute his competence for the job? Are you better qualified? Didn't think so .

Swerve. I've got bigger fish to fry.

stanelvis:



Did you see his impressive profile.
Sometimes we need to look beyond tribe to get things done.

We even have more interesting profiles from Southerners. Admission quota system should be abolished in that case, and I know you'll be the first to kick against its abolition but when it comes to appointments, you'll want Hausa-Fulani to occupy virtually all the posts just because of impressive profiles. Hope you and other core Northerners will not cry that it's injustice if a President of Southern extraction makes a lop-sided appointment in the future?

In summar, he has CCIE and Bsc in Computer Science
from ATBU. I know of a few ladies from the south that beat his qualifications in IT hands down. Let's not even talk of southern guys. Go to LinkedIn and see Naija boys who can mob the floor with this guy when it comes to IT. But you can't underrate the power of mediocrity.

GEEBITE:
Please dont fall for that.ICT guru who has no iota experience or affliction to the silicon valley.Those courses listed are the ones he attended while working at the public sector institutions like CBN .This dude is just a lackey of Isa Pantami the Imam IT expert.An IT guru that has never pitched his brains with those shaping the world even from our silicon valley in Sabo Yaba.

Hahaha.

Hmmm. All I can see he is very well connected. Galaxy backbone- govt . CBN - govt. I wont say more.

The NNPC is practically a northern association.

When you remember that some States in Nigeria have more oil professionals than any northern region as a whole, you just have to Marvel at the system.

Azikiwe would not recognize this Nigeria if he were still alive.

ELAGAIE:

The British conquared the world not by population but by education, if u claim to be educated than the northerners and u cant wrestle power from them and rule them the ur education is useless. There are very few northerners as soldiers in the 60s, how come the few uneducated northerns almajiris took over power from the educated southerns and rule them

The constitution was manipulated bro. The state and local govt numbers caused it and there was no love among southern leaders. Like I said, southern leaders are greedy and didn't care so much about the growth and potentiality in southern Nigeria. And southern Nigeria became divided due to the high number of Muslims in western part of Nigeria. That move to convert many westerners into Islam really paid the northern political elites. This caused division among southerners and their loyalty became divided. The division in the South is why northern elites take advantage of. Up till today, that division is still there.

The civil war presented us the perfect time to quit but we failed as southern Nigerians again becus there was division in the south yet again. So southern as it stands feeds the entire country not just through natural resources but also thru human resources and human resources remains the biggest of them all.

Look at how much the war in the north is costing us as a nation. It's pathetic. I completely blame the southern leaders..

amuwo1980:


See these useless hirelings, break down for us what he studied at MIT , probably you all are working in cahoots with the guy to paint the image of a technical sound person, we know the truth, there scores of more qualified Nigerians from other parts of the country, this is why u northerners used boko haram to wrest power from Jonathan, cronyism and bigotry is your way of life

Don’t mind them . What’s his managerial experience ? What did he study in Harvard or MIT?

Neoteny:


There's no southerner with his qualifications, biitch.

Slap yourself ten times.

Though he has a very impressive profile with experience but I doubt his age to achieved such academic level with such vast work experience. His age is questionable

ELAGAIE:

The British conquared the world not by population but by education, if u claim to be educated than the northerners and u cant wrestle power from them and rule them the ur education is useless. There are very few northerners as soldiers in the 60s, how come the few uneducated northerns almajiris took over power from the educated southerns and rule them

Go and ask Britain.