Engr. Stephen Adedayo Bello has over 30 years’ experience working as a professional in the private and public sectors as well as the academia. He also garnered considerable international exposure through working with world-class multinational companies. 

Engr. Bello obtained a B.Sc. in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in 1975. During his youth service he was a Pupil Engineer with the National Electric Power Authority. 

In October 1976, Engr. Bello joined ITT (Nigeria) Limited as an Engineer-in-Training and was sent for a two-and-half year on-the-job training in some ITT companies in Europe. He acquired an Advanced Certificate in Telecommunication Engineering from ITT-Standard Telecommunication Laboratory, Harlow, England in 1978 before returning to ITT (Nigeria) the following year to assume the position of Senior Project Engineer. 

He joined GTE (Nigeria) Limited in June 1980 as Senior Project/Sales Engineer and moved to the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Ilorin in June 1987 as Principal Technologist, rising to the position of Chief Technologist in 1995.  

He was appointed Director of Engineering of the Nigerian Communications Commission in 2000 and Executive Commissioner, Engineering and Standards, in 2005. Presently, he is the Executive Commissioner, Licensing and Consumer Affairs.