PROFILE, ENGR RABIU HARUNA FNSE, 08032004759, rabiuh2011@gmail.com
Was born on the 18th June 1969 to the Family of late Alhaji Haru Batir and late Hadiza Haruna both From Garki Kofar Kudu, Garki Local Government Jigawa state.
He started School at Kuka Primary School Kano in 1976, passed out in 1981 He was promoted as the best Pupil to join class -6 then to take common entrance examination.
Attended Government Secondary School Gwammaja II Kano from 1981-1986 before proceeding to College of Arts & Science CAS Kano to study for IJMB A-Level examination in 1988. Finished with cumulative 10 Points in Pure Advance Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics.
He got admission into Bayero University Kano Faculty of Engineering then Faculty of Technology to study Electrical Engineering degree from 1988-1992. Graduated with second class upper division, (2:1)
Served the mandatory National Youth Service NYSC in Jos Plateau state during the year 1993
His first offer of appointment came in December 1993 to serve as Facility Manager with Nigerian Embassy Niamey Niger under His Excellency Ambassador Jafaru Koguna (mni) who recognized his Technical contributions during the construction of permanent Chancery and Residence in Electrical Engineering installations, CCTV, and Services designs
Vehicles fleet management, Technical equipment as well as other facilities remains under his care at both Embassy building of seven hecters, Residence and staff quarters
Promoted to Senior Manager in 1999 before voluntarily resigned in September 2001 to take another appointment immediately with Intercellular Nigerian Limited. Posted to Abuja Region as the pioneer field Support Engineer, with a job titled Senior Executive Engineer -1 in charge of Super cell Base station Radio Receiver deployment, operations and maintenance.
The Job introduced him to 2G-Telecommunication /wireless Network Technology which also paved way for him to secure a job with MTN Nigeria in October 2003 as Mechanical /Electrical Engineer, subsequently rose to Field Network Operation and Maintenance.
Promoted to Team Lead field Support Engineer in 2009, with eight Engineers in charge of MTN Nigeria Telecommunications infrastructure, numbered over 400 Telecommunication Towers across the North East sub region Adamawa, Borno Gombe and Yobe. Clustered in 40 sites average. Shared to a team of 10 sub-contractors, to ensure a minimum of 97.5% or a maximum of 99.9% Network Availability as the hourly keep performance index.
In April 2014 MTN Nigeria outsourced Field operation to Huawei Technologies where he moved with same Job Profile and remuneration package, 4 Months later, He joined I.H.S Towers as Regional Project Manager in charge of Passive Telecommunication Infrastructure till date.
Travelled to South Africa, Zambia USA, Germany, Italy Dubai, and Netherland several other countries in Africa to attend Trainings and professional developments.
A recipient of MTN Long service award, and Performance award. Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Immediate Past Chairman Kano Branch, Immediate Past Chairman Nigerian Institution of Electrical Engineers, Member Governing Council Federal college of Education/Technical Bichi, Past Chairman, Business and Rules NSE Council Committee Professional Examiner Abuja Center and NSE Kano exam Center Membership Board, and currently elected as Vice Chairman Association of Professional Bodies in Nigeria Kano Chapter (APBN) to serve from Aug 2019 to Aug 2021
Registered Professional Council for the Regulation of Engineers COREN, Inspector Engineering Regulation and Monitoring ERM -COREN
Happily married to two wives, nine children, first two pursuing degree at Nigerian Universities.
Mission statement to serve as member of the Executive committee Nigerian Society of Engineers by Engr Rabiu Haruna (FNSE)
It was during my secondary school days that I was given a topic to present in a debate by the English Teacher
“A good name is better than having a Gold and Silver”
The content is all about discussions on
- Professional Competence
- Sound Character in relation to others
Having few points written, to present, at the end of the debate, I realized the learning point which impacted me is more to being a credible person.
Thus, I went ahead to find more in relation to sound judgment, good leadership executed within the prescribed period for optimal performance and desired result.
My search took me to read a book Titled ‘SPEED OF TRUST” written by Stephen Covey who went ahead to give a clearer definition of Credibility based on Trust. Thus, to be trusted one must be credible.
This lead to arrive at the factors which determine credibility as follows.
- Intent , walk to talk or keeping to commitment based on good intention, will, motive or agenda on sound judgments
- Integrity, the value in one self,
- Capability which is referring to one’s professional ability or competence
- Result , which is the measured over a period of time subject to
I, financial impact
II, End user, client or customer satisfaction
III, Steps to stages, though which the result was obtained or delivered
IV, Role of other stakeholders or common interest groups.
Having known that the vision of the Nigerian society of Engineers is to be the number professional body in the world, cannot be achieved without developing both professional competence and sound character for speedy execution and judgments
Trust which is the building block to success, one thing which if natured can give a tremendous result, growth, value, etc otherwise can bring down the strongest empire, political party, family, business or any organization is a subject of credibility which is routed through competence and character or behavior.
My desire is to nurture the young professionals to meet the credibility ethics which will ultimately catapult Nigerians engineers to realize their vision of being the number one professional body in the world, to serve our dear country Nigeria realized its vision which has the elements of competence and character “Unity and faith peace and progress.
Engr Rabiu Haruna FNSE, R.Eng