He is an IT professional with extensive experience in growth management, policy formulation, IT operations, and digital transformation. Above all, he has earned the trust of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Kashifu Inuwa (photo) is a Nigerian tech expert. The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University graduate is the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).

He was reappointed to that position in February 2023, after a first 4-year term that started in 2019. The renewed confidence shown by President Muhammadu Buhari is the result of the successful actions he carried out during his first term.

During that term, Kashifu Inuwa successfully implemented various digital transformations, talent development, digital innovation, entrepreneurship and regulation development, and emerging technologies' exploration of indigenous IT content promotion programs, among others.  When he joined the NITDA in 2017, he was the technical assistant to the then-director general. In that position, he was actively involved in the designing, planning, coordination, and execution of the agency's activities.

His professional career began in 2005 at Galaxy Information Technology & Telecommunication Ltd. where he was a network engineer and designed the Abuja wireless network that was serving over 50 clients. He also provided first and second-level support to over 1000 users.

In 2007, he joined Galaxy Backbone as an IP network field engineer before being promoted to senior network engineer (2009) and senior solution architect (2011). With his team, he designed more than 10 national IT systems that have helped promote the rollout of e-government platforms in Nigeria.

In 2014, he was hired by the Central Bank of Nigeria as a technology architect.

Melchior Koba