He is a seasoned administrator and an entrepreneur of repute with a wide and extensive experience in venture capital. Alhaji Sanusi Garba Abdullahi had over two decades experience in the Oil and Gas sector before retiring into full time private business. He is the Managing Director\CEO of SGA Global Resources Limited and Chairman Amiable Oil Nigeria Limited. He sits on the board of several companies like Cowrie Flour Mills (Formerly Zaki Flour Mills, Azare), Amiable Agro-Allied Industries Limited, Aminci Sacks Nigeria Limited, Global Rice Mills Limited amongst others.
He is an active member of the Kano Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture and is currently a member representing the Nineteen Northern States at the Nigeria-China Window of Trade and Commerce.
He started his career in the public sector with the Directorate for Local Government Audit, Kano State before delving into the private sector where he worked with African Petroleum Plc (formerly British Petroleum) first as a Marine/Commercial Representative and in various capacities in marketing and operations departments within the organization. Through dint of hard work and dedication to duty he rose to the position of Sales Coordinator Kano Area, District Manager (Kano and Maiduguri Districts); Area Manager Abuja and later retired as the Regional Manager North East covering 10 states. He has over the years, gathered quality experience in the downstream sector of the Petroleum and Gas Industry.
Alhaji Sanusi is a Member Chartered Institute of Marketing; Member, Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM); and a Member, Institute of Industrialist and Corporate Administrators of Nigeria. He is a graduate of Bayero University Kano where he bagged a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration before proceeding to University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt where he had his Master’s in Business Administration. He has also attended Lagos Business School (Pan African University, Lagos) and had participated in several management, leadership and mentoring courses.
A Member, Nigerian Society of Mining Engineers (NSME); Member, Nigeria Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS); and a Member, Council of Mining Engineers and Geoscience (COMEG). Salisu is an alumnus of Federal School of Mines, Jos and University of Jos where he holds a Diploma in Mining Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Mining respectively.
Salisu has over two decades of Mining and Exploration experience cutting across different aspects of the Mining Industry and its sub sectors. He has acquired a wealth of experience in the mineral exploration sub-sector while working on a variety of base metal and gold projects in Plateau, Nassarawa, Niger, Bauchi and Gombe States.
He started his career with Nigerian Kaolin Limited as a mine supervisor where he is introduced to the rudiment of practical mining activities before joining Nigeria Mining Corporation (NMC) as a Technical Officer Mining. A decade later Mr. Salisu was made a Blaster and later a Quarry manager at Danjama Limited, a company that specialize in mining of Solid minerals in Gombe State before moving on to Emo Ashapura Energy & Mining Limited where he had a Stint as a mining supervisor, a position he held for three years before joining Gamdan Resources Limited as an Exploration geologist.
Mr. Salisu also had brief stint with Andevco mining Limited and Katagum mining and Engineering Limited, Haq Miners Limited, Akaja International Limited, Blessed Global Integrated Miners Limited, and Amstrade Ventures Limited, where he actively participated in the mining and processing of Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Tin and Columbite, Limestone, Gypsum amongst others.
An experienced miner who started his mining and explorations career at tender age. He has over the years directly participated in both underground mining and open pit mining of mineral resources and has hands on experience (using both soft rock and hard rock mining methods) from exploration, drilling and blasting, crushing, grinding and milling, separation, refining, processing amongst others. He has almost two decades’ experience in the Mining Industry, gaining significant industry knowledge, commercial experience and strategic Marketing capabilities. He has undertaken and participated in different capacities in the mining industry and has earn a reputation for succeeding where others fail in his business dealings.
His hard work, personal sacrifices, passion and commitment saw his appointment on the board of DDK Processing Nigeria Limited in Charge of Operations. He also sits on the Board of Crushtone Nigeria Limited before Joining S GA Global Resources Limited as a Director bringing his whale of experience to bear on the strategic directions of the company in the area of industrial minerals and mining. He is currently the Public Relations Officer of Kano Industries Mining Association. He holds a Certificate of Mining issued by Bamali Coastland and a Certificate of Mining from CIF.
He is a Corporate member of the Nigerian Mining & Geosciences Society, Registered Member- Council of Mining Engineers & Geoscientists (COMEG). Member, of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
An alumnus of University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and the famous Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, where he holds a Certificate in Introduction to Miningand Master Degree in Geology respectively.
Saad has over two decades of Mining and Exploration experience cutting across different aspect of the mining industry and its sub sector. He is an EIA Expert, specialist in Mineral Exploration, Design and Execution of Exploration programs, regional and detail geological mapping, remote sensing & structural mapping, regional and detail geochemical surveys. He is very effective in the useof MapInfo 2011, Supervision of DD, RC and RAB drilling, Sampling of Core and Rock Chips, Managing Geo-database, Development of standard operating procedures, Managing Remote exploration camp logistics Exploration Budgeting, title acquisition/Management, Local Mining Transaction & Structuring.
He has been involved in exploration work in the gold exploration licenses of Savannah Gold Ltd. His involvement has range from sampling, field mapping, map production, data management, data processing/interpretation, license acquisition and management of exploration team. Over a period of five years in Savannah gold, he was actively involved and trained in exploration activities to resources evaluation stage under stewardship ofProf Laurence Robb- Economic Professor from Oxford University, UK
Saad has worked in various consultancy work on base metals, barite, gold dimension stone and as EIA geologist for several projects. He is computer literate and conversant with a wide range of computer applications including the Microsoft Office suite, ArcGIS, Surfer, the ILWIS GIS package and Adobe Illustrator.
He is a native of Gabari in Kano Municipal local government, Kano State. He attended the famous Bayero University Kano and graduated with Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer science. He has vast experience in Marketing, programming and network development. He has attended many courses on management and leadership training. Muhammad Sunusi sits on the board of Amiable Agro-Allied Industries Limited and amiable Oil Nigeria Limited amongst others.