Career
The appointment at Dangote is new. The operating habit is not. Safety, crew, and delivery were the job long before the ports.
“My dream of becoming a pilot started at age four. It is not just a professional job; it is my hobby.”
Now
April 2026 — present
Managing Director, Infrastructure & Logistics
Dangote Industries Limited · Lagos
Ports, port concessions, logistics, and pipeline infrastructure. He leads the group’s trade-enabling platform under Vision 2030 and reports to Aliko Dangote. The brief is to open corridors that carry the group’s industrial and export work.
Current
Board member
Greenview Development Nigeria Limited · Nigeria
A Dangote Industries subsidiary. The board work sits on large industrial and infrastructure projects.
Aviation
November 2024 — December 2025
Chief Pilot
NG Eagle · Nigeria
In charge of crew and fleet: flight operations, safety oversight, and regulatory compliance.
From 2017
Pilot, later Chief Pilot
Azman Air · Nigeria
He joined Azman Air as a pilot on the Boeing 737 and later served as Chief Pilot.
2011 — 2017
First Officer
IRS Airlines · Nigeria
His first airline job, on the Fokker 100, after training in Florida and France.
Alongside the airlines
Pilot
XE Jets · Nigeria
He also flew with XE Jets. Across these airlines he has captained the Boeing 737, the ERJ 135/145, and the Fokker 100.
Investment and public work
2013 — 2019
Director
Aximites Energy Limited · Nigeria
Commercial work alongside the flying: contracts, people, and company assets.
2021 — 2023
Non-Executive Chairman
Zamfara State Investment and Property Development Company · Zamfara
He also served with the Zamfara State Directorate of Investment and Public-Private Partnerships, on investment attraction and PPP frameworks.
Licences and type ratings
- Epic Flight School, New Smyrna, FloridaPrivate, instrument, and commercial pilot licences
- AeroStar Training Services, OrlandoBoeing 737-NG type rating
- SIM Aero, FranceFokker 100 type rating, 2011
For people coming up behind him
“Just accept the fact and look for a way forward. Don’t try to live in limbo on the pretext that everything is good.”
That is the advice he gives aspiring pilots: stay honest about where you are, then move. On what holds a community back, he has said that without energy, progress and infrastructure are limited.