The newly appointed Permanent Secretaries by the
Federal Government, Alhaji Abdulaziz Mashi Abdullahi, has taken over from
elsewhile Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Communications, Arc. Sonny
Echono,reports ITRealms.
Abdullahi, ITRealms gathered assumed duties at the
Ministry on Wednesday, August 23, 2017.
The former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Arc.
Sonny Echono, who was posted to the Ministry of Education was on hand to hand
over to his successor.
The new Permanent Secretary, Alhaji
Abdulaziz Mashi Abdullahi is a Katsina State born Accountant and Financial
Manager. Over the past three decades, he has worked in a wide variety of
professional capacities in both the private and public sector. Until his
appointment, he was the Director of Finance and Accounts in Nigeria Security
and Defence Corps, Abuja.
He’s a recipient of various certificates in
management, accounting, and computer appreciation courses.
Abdullahi was born in Mashi, Mashi LGA
of Katsina State on the 12th of August 1961, about a year after Nigeria gained
her independence. He attended LEA Mashi Primary School between 1968 and 1974
where he attained his First School Leaving Certificate.
He then moved to Katsina where he
attended the then Government College Katsina from the year 1974 to 1979. In the
spring of ’79, he got admitted into one of the premier universities of Northern
Nigeria, Bayero University Kano where he majored in Accounting, graduating in
1983 with Second class Upper honours degree. In the summer of 2010, he decided
to put his long and illustrious civil service career on hold to allow him go
back to school. He earned his MBA in Financial Management through the
University of Plymouth’s Business School, MBA program.
His first working experience was with
the Bauchi Area Office of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria where he served
his one-year youth service program. He had a brief stint as the Inspector of
Taxes II at the Internal Revenue Division of the Ministry of Finance, of the
old Kaduna state before moving to African Petroleum Plc, Lagos in 1985 where he
worked for over a decade as an Internal Auditor and Plant Accountant. He
decided to return to public service in 1994 where he served for 3 years as the
Chief Finance Officer of the defunct National Board of Community Banks. In the
month of July 1997, he was posted to the Office of the Chief of General Staff
where he served for 2 years as the Assistant Chief Accountant.
In 1999 he was posted to the Office of
the National Security Adviser where he served rising to the post of Acting
Director of Finance owing to his prodigious work ethic and loyalty, working
under three illustrious retired Generals. He stayed in that post till 2011 when
he was posted back to the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation.
From 2012 to 2015, he served as the Director, Finance and Accounts II in the
Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity. In March of 2015, he served
briefly as the Director of Internal Audit in the Office of the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation before he was again moved to the State House,
Presidential Villa to assume the post of Director Internal Audit.
In June this year, he was again posted
to Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps as Director, Finance and Accounts,
the position he left to become the new Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of
Communications.
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