Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has approved the appointment of Wisdom Sawyer as the new Head of the State Civil Service.

The announcement was contained in a statement by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, on Tuesday in Yenagoa.

Sawyer, who previously served as Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Health, succeeds Biobelemoye Charles-Onyema, who retired on August 31.

Born on May 14, 1970, in Odi community, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Sawyer joined the Bayelsa State Civil Service on June 8, 1998, as a medical officer.

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 and a Part 2 Fellowship in Public Health from the National Post-Graduate Medical College, Lagos.

Currently, he has defended his dissertation for a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Sciences and Public Health at the Niger Delta University. Sawyer is also a member of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies.