Engr. Samson Ameh Opaluwah is a Construction Engineer, a Professional Builder, a Facility Manager and a Procurement Expert. Born on October 1st, 1954 at Idah in Kogi State of Nigeria, Engr. Opaluwah is married with one wife and five children{ four ladies and one man} He is presently the Director of Procurement in the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Abuja.
He was a member of the management team at Benue Cement Company Plc. Gboko who took over the management of the company from the expatriate managers in the eighties and brought the company to the stock exchange as a blue chip investment in 1990. Engr. Opaluwah joined the Federal Public Service in 1999, in the Presidency, as the pioneer Director of Maintenance at the National Hospital Abuja where he supervised the Facilities Management of the then newly installed state-of-the-art hi-tech medical equipment, infrastructure and facilities of the apex-referral Hospital and produced the first documented Maintenance Policy in the public sector in Nigeria.
In 2002, following a change in government policy, he was redeployed, fully absorbed into the federal Civil Service and posted to the National Sports Commission where he was put in-charge of the development and management of all federal stadia and sporting facilities nationwide. Between 2005 and 2008 he was seconded to the Federal Capital Territory Administration as part of the team that handled the Capital city’s facility management reform programmes of the Obasanjo administration where he participated actively in the introduction of Public Private Partnership in different models to the management of the capital territories' infrastructure and public services.
This particular assignment led to the transformation of the markets in Abuja and the improved management of the International Conference Centre,amongst others,at no cost to government. In 2008, he returned from secondment to the FCTA and has since been posted as the director of Procurement to the Federal Ministries of Police Affairs {2009-2010}, Transport {2010}and Health {2010-2013} before his present appointment in the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs in the same capacity. His combined experience some of which are mentioned above has exposed him to extensive Project Management, Procurement and Facilities Management- a field in which he has written two books {'Principle & Practice of Facilities Management in Nigeria' and 'the Glossary of Facilities Management'} -proffering solutions to various facility management challenges in Nigeria.
These books are reference materials in some Nigerian Universities and also in use as a practical handbook for professionals in the Facility management industry. Engineer Opaluwah is a serving Elder in the ECWA Church{ Evangelical Church Winning All },Wuse II Abuja and he is presently the Chairman, Governing board of ECWA Theological Seminary Igbaja, Kwara State - a degree awarding theological institution.
He is a Fellow of the following professional bodies:
1. The Nigeria Society of Engineers (FNSE)
2. The Nigeria Institute of Building (FNIOB)
3. The Nigeria Institution of Civil Engineers (FNICE)
4. The Society of Construction Industry Arbitrators (FSCIArb)
5. The Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC)
6. The Nigerian Institute of Technologists in Engineering (FNATE)
Engr. Opaluwah will be sixty years on 1st October, 2014 and is due to retire from the federal civil service next year, by Gods grace, on that day. August, 2013
Good afternoon sir. Alpha Mead Facilities & Management Services Limited will want to invite you to our special one-day FM Roundtable meeting to commemorate this year’s World FM Day event in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteThe World FM Day scheduled for Wednesday, 4th June,2014 is a Global FM® initiative which is also supported by IFMA (International Facility Management Association), the world’s largest and most widely recognized international association for professional facility managers. It aims to raise the profile of facilities management around the globe, promoting professional ideals, not only within practitioners and industry, but also among governments and the general business community.