Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari appointed Mr. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi as the fifth Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).
Abdullahi’s appointment was announced in a press statement by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu.
Abdullahi is replacing Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, who was last month appointed Honourable Minister Designate and may likely be given a portfolio today.
Until his appointment, Abdullahi 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 a cashless society in Nigeria.
He joined NITDA in 2017 as Technical Assistant to the Director General/CEO, where he managed execution of strategy which has increased ICT contribution to Nigerian GDP by over 13% in Q2 2018.
39 years old Abdullahi is a graduate of Computer Science from the prestigious Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.