Bala Dahiru Abdullahi is a Manager in the Tax Data Management Department of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Nigeria. He holds a BSc and MSc in Economics from the Universities of Abuja and Ibadan (Nigeria), an MSc in Data Science and Analytics from the University of Nottingham, England, and a PhD in Econometrics from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. His research interests span revenue forecasting and tax policy analysis, financial econometrics, macroeconometrics, and tax data analytics. Dahiru has provided research and consultancy services to the African Tax Administration Forum, the African Development Bank, and the Centre for Management Development.