Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the appointment of Bala Isa as Executive Secretary of the Borno State Scholarship Board.
The appointment was announced on Monday morning by Governor Zulum’s Special Adviser on Public Relations and Strategy, Malam Isa Gusau in a statement.
The 50-year-old Bala Isa hails from Bayo local government area, and until his appointment, was a lecturer at Borno State University. He was also a principal lecturer at Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, Maiduguri, after working for nearly ten years as a teacher, and later examination officer at A.K Benisheikh Staff Model School at the same Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, the statement noted.
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Bala Isa, currently rounding up his PhD at the University of Maiduguri, holds Msc in Inorganic Chemistry, and Bsc in Chemistry, both from University of Maiduguri. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Education from Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, after secondary education at Government Senior Science Secondary School, Biu, and Government Secondary School, Kwaya Kusar.
Gusau also said that the new E.S has 10 science-based academic publications, as well as seminar papers to his credit, and he is a member of Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria, and Chemical Society of Nigeria.
Governor Zulum, the statement added, congratulates the new E.S and looks forward to an overriding commitment with absolute integrity and fairness in managing the scholarship board.
