Kashim Shettima was born on September 2, 1966.
He is a native of Nimeri Korongoso, Lamisula, Shehuri North, Maiduguri, Borno State.
Kashim Shettima attended Lamisula Primary school Maiduguri between 1972 and 1978. He had his
secondary education at Government Community Secondary School, Biu, where he obtained his West African School Certificate in the year 1978. Kashim Shettima also schooled in Government Science Secondary School Potiskum between 1980 and 1983.
After his secondary education, Kashim Shettima attended University of Maiduguri where he studied Agricultural Economics and graduated in the year 1989 with Second Class (Upper Division). After his graduation and Youth Service, Kashim Shettima, without any waste of time, enrolled for a masters program, and eventually got his Masters Degree in Agricultural Economics from the Nigeria Premier University University of Ibadan in 1991.
Having acquired his Masters Degree, Kashim Shettima got employed as a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Maiduguri in 1993. Shettima later left lecturing for banking job where he rose to the position of a General Manager in the year 2007.
He held several high-ranking executive positions at banks. By the mid-2000s, Shettima was the manager of Zenith Bank’s Maiduguri office before leaving the position of General Manager to enter the state cabinet of Governor Ali Modu Sheriff in 2007.
In the year 2007, Kashim Shettima was appointed Commissioner of Finance and Economic Development in Borno State. He later moved to the Ministry of Local Government & Chieftaincy Affairs, also as a Commissioner in the year 2008. In the year 2009, he served as the Borno State Commissioner of Education. That same year, he also served as Borno State Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resource December. In August 2010, he was appointed Borno State Commissioner of Health.
After four years in the cabinet, in April 2011, Kashim Shettima was elected the governor of Borno State on the platform of ANPP and re-elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congree, APC by a wider margin in 2015;
Shettima was later elected to the senate in 2019 where he is presently representing Borno Central Senatorial District in the upper Chamber of the NationaI Assembly.
