By Peter Onyekachukwu 
By Peter Onyekachukwu
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has approved the appointment of Dr. Wisdom Ebiye Sawyer as the new Head of the Civil Service of the state.
The Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Yenagoa, saying Sawyer’s appointment followed the retirement of the immediate past Head of Service, Barr. (Mrs.) Biobelemoye Charles-Onyema, on August 31, 2025.
Alabrah noted that the new Head of Service, who was a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health before his elevation, joined the Bayelsa State Civil Service on June 8, 1998, as a Medical Officer.
Born on May 14, 1970, in Odi community, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Sawyer began his primary education at Town School, Okrika, in Rivers State, and proceeded to Okrika Grammar School, where he completed his secondary education in 1986.
In 1988, he gained admission into the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree.
He later obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Lagos in 2000, and in 2005, earned a postgraduate qualification from the National Post-Graduate Medical College, Lagos. In 2010, he bagged a Part 2 Fellowship in Public Health from the same institution.
Dr. Sawyer, who has also defended his Ph.D dissertation in Clinical Sciences and Public Health at the Niger Delta University’s Faculty of Clinical Sciences, is a member of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS).
Governor Diri, through his spokesman, congratulated the new Head of Service and expressed confidence that Sawyer’s wealth of experience and professional background would bring greater efficiency and reforms to the state’s civil service.