Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi

Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi
Director General NITDA
Assumed office
August 20th 2019
Preceded byIsa Ali Pantami
Personal details
Born
Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi

(1980-02-21) 21 February 1980 (age 44)
Hadejia, Jigawa State, Nigeria
Alma mater

Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE (born 21 February 1980) is a Nigerian Technocrat, and as of 2024, the current Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).[1][2]

Abdullahi started his career as a network engineer in 2005 at Galaxy Backbone, and has worked for many years in the private/public IT space. He is a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE Certification), and a Fellow of the Nigeria Computer Society[3][failed verification] (NCS). In 2023, the California Metropolitan University in London conferred to him an Honorary Doctorate Degree[4] in Business Administration (Leadership and Management)–at the Leaders Without Borders Annual Business Summit.[5][6]

  1. ^ FG Appoints Mr Kashifu Abdullahi as Director-General NITDA, Vanguard Nigeria
  2. ^ "Buhari Appoints". MSN. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  3. ^ "NCS". Nigerian Computer Society. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  4. ^ "LWB UK 2023 Doctoral Conferment". Leaders Without Borders Development Centre. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Leaders Without Borders Development Centre". Leaders Without Borders. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  6. ^ "DG NITDA Bags Honorary Doctorate from California Metropolitan University". PRNigeria. 20 May 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2023.