Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has appointed Dr. Wisdom Ebiye Sawyer as the new Head of the State Civil Service.
The appointment was announced in a statement issued on Tuesday in Yenagoa by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah.
Dr. Sawyer, who formerly held the position of Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, takes over from Mrs. Biobelemoye Charles-Onyema, who retired on August 31.
He attended Town School, Okrika, and Okrika Grammar School, Rivers State, before obtaining a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from the University of Port Harcourt in 1996.
He also holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Lagos (2000) and a Part 2 Fellowship in Public Health from the National Post-Graduate Medical College, Lagos (2010).
Currently, he has defended his dissertation for a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Sciences and Public Health at the Niger Delta University. Dr. Sawyer is also a member of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies.
Born on May 14, 1970, in Odi community, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Sawyer began his career in the Bayelsa State Civil Service on June 8, 1998, as a medical officer.
