Before he took over as Managing Director/CEO of Galaxy Backbone Limited (GBB), he was the accounting officer and a director and a principal start-up for the establishment and development of the National Centre for Petroleum Research and Development (NCPRD) of the Energy Commission of Nigeria. At NCPRD, he was the spearhead of cross-cutting edge research that developed the conceptual exploration model deployed in the successful oil and gas exploration in the frontier basin of the Northeast Nigeria. He was also a research consultant to NNPC on oil and gas exploration.
At its inception in 2006 as a public enterprise wholly owned by the Federal Government of Nigeria, the mandate of GBB was well defined and straightforward – setting up and operating a unified Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure platform that addresses the connectivity, transversal and other technology imperatives for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the federal government. The company was also charged with operating a nationwide network backbone to help facilitate the digital inclusion of underserved areas and rural communities towards the realisation of the federal government goals as enumerated above.
