Sadi Abdu

Mr. Sadi Abdu is a versatile financial manager and a seasoned professional auditor. He is also a chartered accountant (FCCA) and professional banker of repute. He graduated with B.Sc. (Hons) (Second Class Upper Division) from the Bayero University Kano (BUK) where he won the Shell Petroleum Development Company Scholarship.

He is a distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Credit Administration of Nigeria (FICA), an Honorary Senior Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (HCIB), an affiliate member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) United Kingdom, a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), as well as a Certified Islamic Finance Analyst (CIFA) as well as Member Institute of Directors (IOD). He is an Alumni of Said Business School, Oxford University UK and also an Alumni of Judge Business School, Cambridge University UK.

He is an Oracle 10g Certified Professional and a holder of Higher Professional Diploma in Computer Studies.

He began his career as an Assistant Lecturer with College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Kano, before moving to Messrs. Muhtari Dangana & Co Chartered Accountants as a trainee accountant in Lagos.

Mr. Abdu worked in FSB International Bank Plc and was part of the team that worked to re-brand the Bank as part of its strategic plan. He later joined Access Bank Plc and subsequently Unity Bank Plc. He held very important strategic and technical positions.

He was later to become a pioneer management staff of Jaiz Bank Plc and team leader in the Internal Audit Division. He assisted in setting up the Operations, Financial Control and Compliance Departments of the Bank. Again, he was a member of all strategic committees including the IT Steering Committee, Disciplinary Committee, Technical & Strategic ALCO, as well as Procurement Committee.

He acquired extensive banking experience heading major strategic core banking activities including Branch Operations, Management Information System under Financial Control division and Internal Audit.

He served as a member of the Investigative Panel of the Sub Committee on Ethics and Professionalism of the Bankers Committee profiting from his knowledge as a seasoned mediator and conflict manager.

Mr. Abdu is a member of Research & Publication and Interbank Arbitration Committees under the Committee of Chief Audit Executive of Banks in Nigeria.

During his illustrious banking career spanning over two decades, he attended several prestigious strategic leadership training programmes at leading business schools both within and outside Nigeria including the prestigious MISTI (United Kingdom); ORCA (Johannesburg), Lagos Business School (LBS) among others.

He has also attended over 50 different training programmes cutting across various functions including Customer Service Excellence, Effective Risk Management, Human Resources Management, Information Security, Change Management, Effective Governance, Strategic Planning, Compliance AML/CFT, and Team Building among others.