CURRICULUM VITAE

ENGR. NURUDDEEN ABDURRAHMAN RAFINDADI

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 ENGR. NURUDDEEN A. RAFINDADI, FNSE, FAEng, FNAHS.

GENERAL:

Title: Engr.
Full Names: RAFINDADI, Nuruddeen Abdurrahman
Date of Birth: Friday, 25th March 1960.
Place of Birth: Katsina; Katsina State; NIGERIA
Citizenship: Nigerian.
Contact Address: No 12, Cape Town Street, Wuse Zone 4, Abuja.
Communication Details: Tel.: +234 80 3313 9678; +234 80 9208 8732
Email: [email protected]; [email protected].
Linkedin contact: www.linkedin.com/nrafindadi

Education: Federal Government College Sokoto [1973 – 1977]

Ahmadu Bello University [ABU; 1977 – 1981]
Ahmadu Bello University [ABU; 1984 – 1986]
Qualifications B.Eng. (Civil Engineering), ABU, 1981;
M.Sc. (Water Resources, Environmental Engineering), ABU, 1986.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Fellow, Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE);
Registered Engineer, Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN);
Fellow, Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (FNICE);
Fellow, Nigerian Institution of Highway Engineers (FNIHE)
Distinguished Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Engineering (FAEng.), 2015;
Fellow, Nigerian Association of Hydrological Sciences (FNAHS), 2017

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

1. Nigerian Academy of Engineering (NAEng.), 2015;
2. Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), 1989;
3. Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (NICE)
4. Nigerian Institution of Highway Engineers (NIHE)
5. Association of Consulting Engineers of Nigeria (ACEN)
[Member association of the international federation of consulting engineers FIDIC].

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HONOURS RECEIVED:
1. Shell BP Prize, for the best Final year project Thesis, ABU, Civil Engineering, 1981.
2. Morgan Omonitan Prize, for project in Structural Engineering. ABU, 1981.
3. Nigerian Society of Engineers. Presidential Merit Awards, 2004, 2014 and 2015.
4. Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers – NICE Award – 2009.
5. Sudanese Engineering and Architecture Consultancy Association. Speaker, GAMA FIDIC
conference, Khartoum, 2013.
6. NIQS. Guest Keynote Speaker, Zonal Conference: July 2014.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Highlights
1. Thirty five years experience in Civil Engineering; projects management, design and
supervision of projects, projects control, contracts administration, projects feasibility and
financing, legal and regulatory framework, monitoring and evaluation.
2. Worked in the public sector for nine years. Practiced as consultant in engineering
services, projects management and contracts administration, for 25 years to date.
3. Projects and professional services engaged: dam construction, operation and
maintenance, dam safety and control instrumentation, irrigation schemes [Goronyo,
Bakolori, Zobe (Katsina State); small dams (Katsina and Kaduna States); small irrigation
schemes and Fadama development, wheat production under irrigation (Katsina State).
4. Managing Director, Federal Roads maintenance Agency (FERMA), September 2017.
5. Founding Partner of Afri-Projects Consortium (APC) - consultancy services, civil
engineering, water resources: feasibility studies, design, projects financing.
6. Partner (Engineering) - APC, working for the PTF, 1995 to 1999:
Develop organizational structure, processes and procedures, procurement
procedures, reporting formats and system records;
Develop IT infrastructure, optimize “Project Cycle” process, procurement plans,
work-flow processes, deploy software for projects management;
Terms of Reference, coordination of engineering services on projects;
Engineering staff development: professional conduct, performance quality;
Planning / design, project control, projects management and contracts
administration.
7. Projects handled included
The National Highway and Urban Roads Rehabilitation Programme (rehabilitation
of over 12,000 km of federal roads);

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 The National Rural Water Supply Programme (construction and commissioning of
bore holes for water supply for over 5,000 rural communities);
The National Rural Telecom Programme;
Dam, irrigation and water supply projects - Sabke (Katsina State), Gari (Jigawa /
Kano States), Hadejia (Jigawa State), Enugu (Enugu State), Ikoyi, VI and 1004
housing estate (Lagos State), Makurdi (Benue State), Ibadan (Oyo State) and
Joda-Gezawa (Kano State).
8. Executive Consultant (Project Services), APC, from 1999. Projects handled included
A World Bank Study on Rural Development Strategy: Poverty alleviation, Human
Capital Development;
Legal and Regulatory Framework for Nigerian Telecom Sector [for the BPE]. In
partnership with Booz-Allen and Hamilton (US) and Clifford Chance (UK)];
Environmental audit of public enterprises slated for privatization [for BPE, in
partnership with Geomatric Technology Corporation (US)];
Design of procurement system and procedure, National Fadama Development
Program II (NFDPII) [Federal Ministry of Agric. / World Bank];
Design, supervision of Urban Upgrading Project in Bauchi State [World Bank].
9. Founder: Global Projects Consortium –
National Lead Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant for DRG’s funded MDGs
projects and programs in Nigeria;
National Coordinating Consultant, grain storage silo complexes at 20 sites across
the Nigeria with a total combined capacity of 1.05 million metric tonnes [Federal
Ministry of Agriculture];
Interim National PM and QA Consultant (2008) for the NICEP project [Galaxy
Backbone PLC] - 5,000 nodes of Internet access across Nigeria to improve
nationwide digital inclusion.
9. Principal: DIYAM CONSULTANTS –
Completion of Kano River Irrigation Project Phase I: 6,500 Hectares: 2003 - 2008
Consultancy Services for the Hadejia-Jama’are-Komadugu-Yobe (HJKY) Basin:
Improved hydrology, dam safety, integrated water resources management, river
training and feasibility studies (Kano River and Hadejia Valley irrigation projects):
with Royal Haskoning – DHV of Netherlands [World Bank], ongoing.
10 President of the Association of Consulting Engineers of Nigeria ACEN (2011 - 2013),
Council member, COREN (Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria), 2013 to
2016.

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POSITIONS OCCUPIED WITH DATES
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES IN EACH POSITION
SUPERVISORY OR MANAGERIAL SCOPE
SPECIAL CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
EMPLOYMENT RECORD

1999 to 2016: Afri-Projects Consortium (and affiliate firms), Abuja.

Position: Partner / Executive Consultant
Responsibility: Delivery of project services, quality assurance, projects control, building
capacity of professional staff.
Scope / projects:
Study on Rural Development Strategy / Poverty alleviation in Nigeria –
Component 5: Human Capital Development
Legal and Regulatory Framework for the Nigerian Telecomm. Sector – BPE.
Rehabilitation works, Bakolori Irrigation Project [about 8,000 Ha.]: FMWR.
Procurement system and procedure for the National Fadama Development
Program II (NFDPII) [PCU, Federal Ministry of Agric.]
Roads development Program, Yobe State – Feasibility Study.
Urban Upgrading Project, Bauchi State (World Bank) – surveys, designs.
Urban Upgrading Project, Bauchi State (World Bank) – supervision, contracts
administration.
Completion of 7,000 Hectare Kano River Irrigation Project Phase 1: Supervision,
contract administration.
Business development, corporate registrations and project bids in the oil and gas
sector: (as Energy Projects Consortium (EPC) Ltd.)
[2008] - Interim National Consultants for NICEP project (GBB plc.): QA, QC,
stakeholder relationship management.
Co-National Co-coordinating Consultants for the Strategic Silos Project [2009. 20
no. Silo complexes across the country.]
Lead National Consultant, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of DRG’s funded
MDGs projects and programmes, in Nigeria – for the Presidency. Coordination
and M&E reports compilation (2006 to 2009. Over 18,000 projects and
programmes; worked with Civil Society Organizations; reported to Presidential
MDGs committee meetings; present at the UN MDG+10 summit at New York,
2011.

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Some Special Challenges / achievements:
Led the National M&E Team, the clearinghouse for the activities of the Zonal and
State M&E Teams.
Prepared monthly and yearly reports of feedback from the field teams, gave
recommendations for successful implementation of the MDGs projects and
programs.
Undertook field data collection and analysis. Created a web-based portal that
enabled a centralized real time collection, upload and reporting of analyzed
information from locations across the country.
Designed and maintained a web-based M&E reporting portal, which collated and
analysed field M&E reports. The portal was used in the reporting at the UN’s
MDGs review summit in New York, in 2010.
Successes achieved towards the institutionalization of M&E into the governance
structure. Led a group of professionals from the consulting industry and civil
society to found the Society for Monitoring and Evaluation in Nigeria (SMEAN), a
chartered professional body now consisting of over 500 individual memberships
and 60 corporate memberships.
Participated in the National Planning Commission (NPC)’s scored card
presentation for MDA’s; was involved in the NPC’s National Integrated
Infrastructure Master Plan (NIIMP); SMEAN has participated in a meetings with
IDPs [international development partners] on M&E capacity development
framework for Nigeria.

2014 to 2016: Director, Legacy Pensions; a Pension Fund Administrator [PFA] regulated
by PenCom, Nigeria.
Position: Member of the Governing Board
Responsibility: A Director of the Board.
Scope / Projects: Board, committee meetings; member of 2 Board Committees: F & GPC,
Risk Management Committee.

2012 to 2013: Association for Consulting Engineering in Nigeria (ACEN).

Position: President
Responsibility: Chairman, ACEN Council. President of the association, Leader of ACEN
delegations to FIDIC and affiliated international conferences; member of
Council of the NSE, member of COREN Council committees.
Scope / projects: Lead representative of the engineering consulting industry in Nigeria.

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Some Special Challenges / achievements:
Advocacy enhancement programme: A capacity building programme (special
training sessions, seminars, reach out to stake holders in the industry, including
the NASS, Federal MDA’s, other professional associations, etc.) to enhance the
ability of ACEN to conduct advocacy for the engineering industry in general and
engineering consultancy in particular.
Utilised a partnership with DFID (Department for Foreign and International
Development of UK) to obtain DFID support for the advocacy programme.
Led the formation of the Engineering Leadership Forum (ELF), where ACEN,
COREN and NSE collaborated to advance the course and demands of the
engineering industry.
Coordinated the formation of a Forum of professionals of the built environment
[engineers, architects, builders, quantity surveyors, town planners, land surveyors,
estate surveyors] to push the NASS for the enactment of a Construction Industry
Nigeria Content Act.
Facilitated and led a joint harmonization for professionals of a common
benchmark for remunerations for professionals of the built environment industry.
Comprehensive review and reorganisation of the ACEN secretariat, in a drive to
obtain higher efficiency, productivity and regular performance reviews.
Relocation of the ACEN secretariat office to a location (Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja area
in Lagos) that was more suited to its professional needs, corporate status and
providing a more conducive environment
Opened an Abuja liaison office for ACEN.

2009 to 2011: Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).

Position: Member of the Governing Board
Responsibility: A Director of the Board; Chairman Board Committee on establishment,
administration and maritime labour.
Scope / Projects: Board, committee meetings, Nigerian delegate at meetings of the
International Maritime Organization IMO (London), The International
Seabed Authority ISA (Kingston) and the International Labour Organization
ILO (Geneva).
Some Special Challenges / achievements:
Led a NIMASA exercise for the review of Staff employment handbook. The review
was conclusive and it was successfully implemented.

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 Led an exercise for the review of NIMASA staff remunerations based on
benchmarking with similar organizations in the maritime industry. The review was
conclusive and it was successfully implemented.
Led a committee on a review for the organizational re-structuring of NIMASA,
based on a review of NIMASA’s statutory mandate, strategic focus and business
imperatives, a benchmarking of similar agencies, locally and internationally and a
consultative process with stakeholders. This review was nearing conclusion, but
the Board was dissolved.
Led the committee to conduct a comprehensive review of the staff scheme of
services. This was to support the re-structuring initiative, by defining for each
position the schedules of duties, qualifications and entry requirements. This
review was nearing conclusion, but the Board was dissolved.

1995 to 1999: Afri-Projects Consortium, Nigeria.

Position: Partner / Executive Consultant, engineering services
Responsibility: Preparing and tracking programmes of services delivery, time inputs, fee
invoicing, setting up an engineering design office and design staff team;
quality assurance.
Scope / projects: Consultancy for the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund (PTF, Nigeria)
projects.
Terms of Reference and Project Briefs for proposed projects and programmes;
Management and co-ordination of agric. / rural sector projects:
• Procurement and distribution of agricultural / veterinary inputs and agric.
implements nationwide;
• Pastoralists’ livestock development programme (grazing reserves and
stock routes; a mass vaccination programme for livestock; rehabilitation of
facilities of the national veterinary research institute (NVRI), Vom, Plateau
State; support for research for livestock drugs, vaccines and control of
livestock epidemics;
• Master plan study for the development of fishery sub-sector in Nigeria;
• A programme for the control of migratory pests; rehabilitation of the agro
aviation unit of the Nigeria Federal Ministry of Agriculture
A country wide National Rural Water Supply Program
Design and preparations for selected urban, semi urban, regional and rural water
supply projects.

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 Design and project preparations for selected irrigation and other water sector
projects across Nigeria;
Counterpart Funding of selected multilateral funded water supply projects;
The National Highways and Urban Roads Rehabilitation Project (over 12,000 km
of national highways rehabilitated)
Design of selected national highways for construction and / or realignment (about
660 km of road alignments and pavements designed)
National Rural Telecommunications
Program for the Improvement of National Bulk Power Electricity Transmission;

Some Special Challenges / achievements:

Reorganised the firm to provide project management services to a huge
independent domestic intervention agency. Projects of over N175b over a 4-year
period.
Expansion of the firm, from 30 to a peak of over 350 professional employees.
Technical support to the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund, PTF in: the formulation
of structure, processes and procedures, fund’s allocation policy, intervention
criteria, and information management system.
Engagement and coordination of consultancy services from over 620 consultancy
firms, local and international.
Deployment of several thousand professionals and firms in an efficient,
responsive and equitable system.
PTF interventions in several sectors of the Nigerian economy.
✓ Engagement of over 10,000 contractors and suppliers, 620 professional
firms, 15,000 other professionals and 500,000 other cadre personnel in the
private sector.
✓ New standards of public accountability and due process of public
procurement.
✓ Official commendations locally and internationally - World Bank, AfDB,
FAO, Global 2000 (and ex-US President Jimmy Carter), WHO, UNICEF,
local Chambers of Commerce, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria
(MAN) and the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE).
In 1999, the firm of Afri-Projects Consortium received the prestigious National
Productivity Order Merit Award (NPOM).
In May 1999: attended and successfully completed “Private Finance of
Infrastructure”, awarded by the International Law Institute (ILI) / Georgetown

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 University, Washington DC. [Design, negotiation and financing of private
participation in infrastructure: legal, banking, finance and public policy
considerations in the funding of PPPs.]

1991 to 1995: Afri-Projects Consortium, Kaduna.

Position: Partner, Engineering services
Responsibility: Project services: pre-commission; pre-contract; post contract.
Scope / projects:
Kagara Dam and 1 MGD Treatment Plant (Upper Niger RBDA, Minna).
Kebbi State Water Supply Project – Feasibility Study
Multi-State Health Projects - Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi States (AfDB financed.)
Kaduna Refinery Complex, Unified Access Project: KRPC, Kaduna.
NNPC Pipelines & Depots Project Ph. III, Enugu-Makurdi-Yola. With ILF.

Some Special Challenges / achievements:

Pioneering of a multi-disciplinary and multi sectoral consultancy in northern
Nigeria.
Feasibility studies and support to Client States (Kaduna, Sokoto and Kebbi) to
design a health sector programme consisting of the rehabilitation of primary health
care centres.
Support to Clients to advance the programme’s proposal through an appraisal
process by the African Development Bank AfDB.
Successfully secured financing from the AfDB for the “multi-state health sector
programme” intervention, covering 5 states (KD, SO, KB, OG and OD) and a
funding of US$80million.

1987 to 1990: In government service. Kaduna State. Katsina State.

Position: Principal Engineer; Assistant Director
Responsibility: Projects engineer overseeing field coordination of public sector irrigation
projects, and the running of existing schemes
Scope / projects:
1987 – 1991: Katsina State Ministry of Agriculture. Assistant Director – Irrigation:
Irrigation schemes in newly created Katsina State;
Head of Task Force on Accelerated Wheat Production.
1987 – 1987: Kaduna State Ministry of Agriculture. Principal Irrigation Engineer –
planning /design of capital projects in irrigation.

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Special Challenges / achievements:
1987: Planned the annual operations of 20 small irrigation schemes (20 to 80
hectares) in 14 LGA’s of the old Kaduna State. Total of over 600 hectares.
1987 – 1991: Set up of an irrigation department in the newly created Katsina
State. Expanded public irrigation schemes - from 7 irrigation schemes with a total
of 300 hectares to 10 irrigation schemes with about 1,000 hectares.
Head of Task Force on Accelerated Wheat Production, under irrigation - in public
irrigation schemes and in smallholder Fadama farms, total of over 10,000
hectares.

1984 to 1986: M.Sc. Studies at ABU, Zaria. Water Resources and Environmental
Engineering. Project thesis in Irrigation / Engineering Hydrology.
Scope / projects: Course works in: Engineering hydrology; irrigation and drainage; water and
wastewater engineering; environmental engineering; also in numerical
methods, statistics, operations research, business methods, economics.

Special Challenges / achievements:

Passed course works with distinction;
Conducted a series of sand tank seepage flow model laboratory research - on
non-linear analysis of irrigation drainage flow.
A technical paper on: “Non-Linear Analysis of Steady State Seepage into Drains.”
ASCE.

1982 to 1986: In government service. Sokoto-Rima River Basin Development Authority

(SRBDA); Kaduna-Karaduwa RBDA
Position: Pupil Civil Engineer
Scope / projects:
1984 – 1986: Kaduna – Karaduwa River Basin and Rural Development Authority
KKRBRDA. Civil Engineer: Zobe dam, Katsina State; design and construction of
small dams on direct labour, with task force teams.
1982 – 1984: Sokoto-Rima River Basin Development Authority, Sokoto State.
Goronyo Dam construction, Sokoto State.

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Special Challenges / achievements:
1983-84: A special report on dam control and safety instrumentation on Goronyo
dam.
1985-86: Task team - survey, design and construction of two small dams: Koza
dam (Daura LGA, Katsina) and Kerawa dam (Zaria LGA, Kaduna).
1984-86: Dam safety monitoring, Zobe.
Construction of drainage relief wells, Zobe dam.

1981 to 1982: NYSC. At Lagos State.

Position: Youth Corp, Civil Engineer
Responsibility: Field engineer, building supervision.
Scope / projects:

Construction works at Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre, Sea School

Island, Apapa - Lagos.

Special Challenges / achievements:

Participated in Man-O-War survival / leadership training courses.

Commendation for contribution in development of facilities for the sea school.

SOME PUBLICATIONS ON ENGINEERING / RESEARCH / MANAGERIAL PRACTICE

The Consulting Industry, Engineering And Development In Nigeria: Problems And
Potentialities: International Conference of the Association of Consulting Engineers of
Nigeria (ACEN), themed “Engineering is Development: A Multi-Dimensional Framework
for National Development”, Abuja, 8th November 2010.

Non-Linear Analysis of Steady State Seepage into Drains. Published in the Journal of
Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Vol. 115, No. 3, June 1989. ©ASCE, ISSN 0733-
9437/89/OO03-0358/-. Paper No. 23544.

Ethics and Procedures in Engineering Practice [Business Integrity Management and the
Future]: Keynote paper delivered at the Annual Conference of the Nigerian Society of
Engineers, NSE, Abuja Branch 26th September, 2007.

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Human Resource Management In Consulting Firms: A workshop paper on Building The
Capacity Of Consulting Firms, organized by the Association Of Consulting Engineers Of
Nigeria (ACEN), Lagos, 19th April 2005.

Procurement Procedures: A workshop paper presented annually (2004 – 2007) at NSE

refresher courses. Presented at workshop centres in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, and Kano.

Continuing Professional Development In Quality Management: 2004 Annual Conference

of the Association Of Consulting Engineers Of Nigeria (ACEN). Lagos, Wednesday 15th
December 2004.

Formation of Consortia: Perceptions, Essential Elements And Challenges: Keynote

address; 19th Annual General Assembly of the Association Of Professional Bodies Of
Nigeria (APBN), on Thursday 24th July, 2003, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Formation of Consortia: Perceptions, Essential Elements And Challenges: Annual

Conference of the Nigerian Society Of Engineers; 9th December 2002, at Kaduna.

The Young Professional Engineer In A Developing Economy - What Prospects? Annual

Conference of the Association Of Consulting Engineers Nigeria (ACEN). Lagos, 18th
December 2002.

Packaging the Private Financing of an Infrastructure Project: National Conference of the

Association of Consulting Engineers, Nigeria (ACEN), at Lagos - November 2000.

Sustainable growth in Infrastructural Development: Nigerian Engineering Practice and the

PPP: 17th Engineering Assembly of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in
Nigeria [COREN], held on 23rd - 24TH SEP. 2008, at Abuja.

Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria - The National Monitoring and
Evaluation Team Experience: Centre for Research and Documentation (Mambayya
House) of the Bayero University Kano; at 2009 annual Research Training Workshop for
Post Graduate Research Students from Nigerian Universities (Damina School), October
19-30, 2009, in Kano.

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On procurement reforms and Consultant Selection and Practices in Nigeria. FIDIC
DAVOS Conference, October 2011, at Switzerland. Main theme “Local Resources -
Global Perspective”; sub-theme Ensuring Quality and Harmonizing Best Practice. With
Engr. Emeka M. Ezeh, DG of BPP – Nigeria.

Monitoring and Evaluation of MDGs Projects: Engineering Consultancy In Collaboration

With Civil Society. 2012 GAMA Conference. At the Zambezi Sun Hotel, Livingstone,
Zambia. Monday, 30th April 2012. Theme: “Engineering As A Driver Of Sustainable
Social And Economic Development”

Making Decisions About Water. Presented at 2012 Africa CEO Roundtable & Conference
On Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility (AR-CSRTM). Theme: “Sustainable
Development: Expanding Economic Opportunities for Public-Private Synergy”. June 28-
29, 2012 at the Tinapa Business Resort, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Procurement Planning and its Impact On The Efficiency Of Projects Delivery: Highlight of
Challenges Encountered in the Nigeria Public Sector Reform. FIDIC-GAMA 2013
Conference. Theme: “Consulting Engineers: Key Partners in Sustainable Infrastructure
Development”, Khartoum. 7th – 10th April 2013.

Procurement Planning And Its Impact On The Efficiency Of Projects Delivery. NIQS Zonal
Seminar, Multi-Purpose Hall, Gombe State University, Gombe. 11th – 12th June 2014.

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