Engineer Sani Ndanusa is a registered engineer of the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management. He has a Masters’ Degree in Water and Waste Engineering from the University of Loughborough.

He has served as a senior engineer for several infrastructure projects in Nigeria; and as Honourable Commissioner for Works and Infrastructural Development and, later, for Transportation and Infrastructural Development in Niger State. From December 2008 to March 2010, he was Honourable Minister of Sports.