{"id":17489,"date":"2025-09-02T18:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phmundial.com\/?p=17489"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:14:39","slug":"diri-appoints-sawyer-bayelsa-head-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/2025\/09\/02\/diri-appoints-sawyer-bayelsa-head-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Diri Appoints Sawyer  Bayelsa Head of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has approved the appointment of Dr. Wisdom Ebiye Sawyer as Head of the Civil Service of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThis was disclosed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThe appointment of Sawyer, a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, followed the retirement of Barr. (Mrs.) Biobelemoye Charles-Onyema on August 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThe new HoS joined the Bayelsa civil service on June 8, 1998 as a Medical Officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eHe was born on May 14, 1970 in Odi community, Kolokuma\/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state, and began his education at Town School, Okrika in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eHe finished in 1981 to attend Okrika Grammar School where he sat for the West African School Certificate examinations in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eIn 1988, Sawyer gained admission at the University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Rivers State, where he studied and obtained the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eHe also attended the University of Lagos for a Master\u2019s degree in Public Health in 2000 as well as the National Post-Graduate Medical College, Lagos in 2005 and later obtained a Part 2 Fellowship in Public Health at the same institution in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eDr. Sawyer has already defended his dissertation at the faculty level for a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Clinical Sciences and Public Health at the state-owned Niger Delta University Faculty of Clinical Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThe newly appointed HoS is equally a member of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa &nbsp; Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has approved the appointment of Dr. Wisdom Ebiye Sawyer as Head of the Civil Service of the state. \u200e \u200eThis was disclosed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, in a statement on Tuesday. \u200e \u200eThe appointment of Sawyer, a Permanent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}