Barrister N. Salman Mann, mni, hails from Ilorin, Kwara State. She attended Queen Elizabeth Secondary School in Ilorin and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where she graduated with an LLB in 1980 and BL in 1981, from the Nigerian Law School, Lagos. She also obtained a Master's in Business Administration MBA from the University of Ilorin in 2003. She started her career, which spanned 35 years, in the State Civil Service and ended it at the Federal Civil Service. Her Career commenced as a State Counsel in the Ministry of Justice, where she rose to become the first female Solicitor–General and Director-General in the State. Between 1994 and 2003, she served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministries of Justice, Commerce & Industries, as well as the Ministry for Water Resources and Rural Development, Kwara State. She was appointed as Head of Service in Kwara State in 2003 before transferring her service to the Federal service in 2003. At the Federal Level, she served in various Ministries before retiring in 2017.
The Span of her career has given her a very broad and multi-dimensional exposure to a cross-section of Policy areas and has broadened her horizon on many matters that border on a variety of National issues. She has also served on various Government Committees, and her schedules have touched numerous and diverse areas, ranging from Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing, Implementation of ECOWAS plan of action on Human Trafficking and Child Labour, to Implementation of ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons. She has also served as a member of, Board of Directors, and ECOWAS Regional Development Bank (EBID) in Lome, Togo, member of the Federal Government Committee on the Restructuring and Rationalisation of Government Ministries and Parastatals, known as the Oronsaye Committee. She also served as the Registrar for Intellectual Property Rights, and as a Member of, Board of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). She was also made Chairman of, inter-Ministerial Committee on improving the World Bank rating of doing business in Nigeria. Furthermore, she facilitated the Coordination and formulation of policies to enable the adoption of the use of ICT in the MDAs (e-governance) and coordinated the review and updating of the ICT Master Plan and Roadmap in the ICT Sector in liaison with relevant stakeholders to enable the establishment of a robust ICT in governance.
She has been a member of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) since 1995, SEC 17, and was a Directing staff from February 2023 to December 2024. She is now the Ag. Director of Studies
