Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the appointment of Barkindo Muhammad Saidu as Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA.
The Governor also appointed Abdulkadir Abdulkarim Harun as Executive Secretary, Borno State Arabic and Sangaya Education Board (BOSASEB).
The two appointments were announced by the Governor’s special adviser on media and strategy, Malam Isa Gusau in a statement issued on Friday morning.
The statement noted that Zulum’s choice of Barkindo was based on his excellent credentials and record of public service.
Fifty-four-year-old Barkindo hails from Gwoza local government area.
Until his appointment, Barkindo was Executive Secretary/Programme Manager of Borno State agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS & Malaria from 2016. Growing through the ranks, he had served as director, admin and human resources in 2015, deputy director, admin and supplies in 2011, assistant director, admin and supplies in 2007 and chief admin officer in 2004.
Barkindo holds PhD in Strategic Management from the International Business Management Institute in Berlin, Germany, and obtained in 2019, M. Sc. in Information Technology (IT) Project Management from the Royal Academy of Economics and Technology in Switzerland in 2013.
He also has M. Sc in Ecology & Environmental Studies from the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria. He is currently undergoing M. Sc in Medicinal & Poisonous Plants also from same institution.
Before these degrees, Barkindo obtained Postgraduate Diploma in Nigeria Strategic Studies from the University of Maiduguri and B. Sc. in Biology/Education from the University of Maiduguri in 1991.
Barkindo graduated from Government Science Secondary School, Monguno, Borno State in 1984 after attending Gadamayo Primary School in Gwoza back in 1979.
He also holds advanced diploma in Database Management from M. B. H. Computer Academy in Maiduguri, in 2005, and diploma in computer studies from from Umar Ibn Ibrahim El-Kanemi College Of Education, Science and Technology, Bama in 2004
Barkindo Muhammad Saidu has attended 13 training programmes on variety of health related and other community development programmes from John Hopkins Bloom-berg School of Public Health all in 2017, and three programmes from the West African Biotechnology Training Programme at the University of Baltimore in Maryland, USA in 2018
He has also attended series of other skills development programmes organized by prominent national and international bodies involved with public health issues.
Barkindo has served at different committees of Borno State Government on issues relating to
public healthcare, community-based social protection and welfare, public projects and services’ monitoring and reporting, poverty alleviation and youths empowerment amongst others.
Professor Zulum congratulated Barkindo on his new appointment and looks forward to his continued service with excellence to the people of Borno State and humanity.