Civil and Environmental Engineer with 25 years post-graduation experience and more than 20 years of experience in hydrological studies, hydrometric application (hands-on experience in designing, operation, and management of hydrological and hydrometric networks for water resources development), flood, and drought forecasting, sediment management, and river basin modelling. 

I hold a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Technology Minna in Nigeria and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom. I earned a doctorate degree for research on hydrology and river sediment transport of the Niger River from the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble France. I am experienced in operational hydrology (data collection, analysis) as well as in flood modelling and forecasting.