Usman Ali Lawan, PhD
Founder at USAIFA FARMS- Claim this Profile
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Zakari Shiru
He is a versatile young man with an articulate charisma and analytical skills at any point in time.
Zakari Shiru
He is a versatile young man with an articulate charisma and analytical skills at any point in time.
Zakari Shiru
He is a versatile young man with an articulate charisma and analytical skills at any point in time.
Zakari Shiru
He is a versatile young man with an articulate charisma and analytical skills at any point in time.
Credentials
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Dec. 2019: Aspen New Voices Fellowship at The Aspen Institute, Washington DC, USA
Aspen Institute New Voices FellowshipOct, 2019- Oct, 2024 -
Aug. 2019: UN Summer Academy at The United Nations System Staff College, Bonn, Germany
United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC)Aug, 2019- Oct, 2024 -
Feb. 2017: Certificate in Entrepreneurship Management (BET6 Program)
Enterprise Development Centre, Pan-Atlantic UniversityFeb, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
Aug. 2016: Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme
The Tony Elumelu FoundationAug, 2016- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Founder
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Jan 2015 - Present
Brief description of responsibilities/achievements: - Responsible for strategic management and oversee the implementation of all business activities at USAIFA. - Under my leadership, USAIFA has grown from a small farm of 350 poultry birds and build capacity for 38,000 birds and 100,000 cat fish production. We also built a network of 7200 farmers that receive input credit and farm extension services to improve their productivity. - Lead USAIFA team to implement the UNICEF funded “Farmers cooperative’s skills acquisition and economic empowerment programme across four LGAs in Borno State” between 2018 – 2020. - Lead USAIFA team to implement the UN Women funded “Vocational skills acquisition and economic empowerment programme in Adamawa and Sokoto State” between 2020 – 2021.
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Road Sector Development Team (World Bank Project)
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1 - 100 Employee
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Communications Officer
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Jul 2012 - Present
Brief description of responsibilities/achievements: - Responsible for creating, developing, implementing and managing communication strategies for the Team. - Ensure timely and smooth information flow within RSDT, and between the Team and its various stakeholders (FMW, WB, AfDB, Policy makers, and the Press). - Help in the building of knowledge base for the project through capacity development, ensuring competency and efficiency in communication. - Successfully wrote and publish the RSDT profile. - Responsible for providing strategic communications guidance to the team on overall directions and plans. - Ensuring timely update of RSDT website. - Identified and implemented strategic approaches for engaging stakeholders and policy makers including institutions through various communication channels. - Providing the public with information on RSDT activities when it is requested
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Zamson Oil & Gas Ltd
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Supply and Distribution
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Oct 2008 - Jun 2012
Brief description of responsibilities/achievements: – Supervised all foreign exchange (FX) transactions leading to the purchase, shipping and clearing of 180 freightliner trucks. – Preparing lease agreement and haulage fee for leasing of trucks to different transport company. – Monitoring the operation of all the trucks to ensure prompt delivery on target. – Manage company’s financial transactions and facilities with commercial banks. – Writing proposal to restructure outstanding financial facilities to enable my company meet its financial obligation.
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Intercontinental Bank Plc
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Nigeria
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Accounts Officer
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Nov 2007 - Oct 2008
Brief description of responsibilities/achievements: * Tracking dormant account and working with the account holders to reactivate them. This exercise reduced the amount of dormant account in the branch from 746 to less than 300 between January and March 2008. * Creating and managing Consumer loan accounts and anchored the training of all branch staff on consumer loan transaction. * Performing analytical review of customer's cash flow forecast and financial statement. * Review of the branch treasury to ensure accuracy of Demand Deposit, Fixed Deposit, and other liabilities.
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Education
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2016 - 2021
Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Business Administration (Agribusiness Innovation and Entrepreneurship) -
2017 - 2017
Oklahoma State University
Mandela Washington Fellowship Institute, Business and Entrepreneurship -
2010 - 2011
University of Dundee
Master of Science - MSc, Energy Studies with Specialisation in Energy Finance -
2003 - 2007
Ahmadu Bello University
BSc, Business Administration
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