President Bola Tinubu has announced Mallam Shehu Dikko as the Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC).

The appointment of Dikko, who was previously the vice-president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Chairman of League Management Company, was announced in a press statement issued. 

Dikko was born in Kaduna State, Nigeria. He attended Ahmadu Bello University where he studied Quantity Surveying and graduated with a BSc. He also did a post-graduate diploma in management from the same university. He subsequently obtained his Master of Business Administration from Ahmadu Bello University. 

Shehu Dikko went into football administration in Nigeria in 2004 and he started as the FIFA Goal Project Manager (Nigeria) with organizing several club tours between Portsmouth F.C. and Manchester United alongside Kano Pillars F.C. 

In 2008, Shehu Dikko was hired as a consultant for the sports committee in the Nigerian House of Representatives where he served till 2011. While he was a consultant for the government, he assisted in the drafting the National Sports Commission bill in the National Assembly. In 2012 he was appointed secretary of Super Eagles Bonus Row and code of conduct drafting till 2013. In September 2014, he ran for office of the NFF President but withdrew his candidacy before election was officially held.

On 26 December 2014, he was appointed Chairman of League Management Company by the Nigeria Football Federation and was reappointed Chairman of the League Management Company in 2019  before it was scrapped in  2022.

Dikko also contested for the President of the Nigeria Football Federation in 2022, but later stepped down for Ibrahim Gusau who emerged victorious and two years later, he has been appointed as Director General of the Nigeria Sports Commission after the Nigeria Sports Ministry was scrapped.