Career
He was appointed on August 27, 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari. Engineer Lawal hails from Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State, north east of the country. He graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1979 with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree and worked with the Delta Steel Company, Aladja, Nigerian External Telecommunications Limited and Data Sciences Limited before establishing his own Information and communications technology and Telecommunications consulting firm in 1990.