Adeyemi Michael Ademola, popularly called Adeyemi Brown, was born to the family of the Adeyemis of Alapo’s compound at Inisa in Odo Otin Local Government Area of Osun State on the 24th day of December 1959.

His educational career began on a sound footing with the accomplishment of the first six years elementary education programme in four years at the Roman Catholic Primary School, Anyinasu Ashanti Region, Ghana (1965 – 1969).

Similarly, the young ambitious Adeyemi Brown completed the four years Middle School programme in three years with a Distinction Grade at the Local Authority Middle School, New Ayoma, Volta Region, Ghana in 1972.

His burning desire for higher educational attainment took him to the Baptist Teacher Training College, Ede (1976 – 1979); the Polytechnic, Ibadan where he studied Mass Communication (1982 – 1984) and the then Ogun State Polytechnic, Abeokuta (now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic) between 1990 and 1992, for the Higher National Diploma (HND) in Mass Communication.

Determined to add value to his educational career, Adeyemi Brown’s insatiable quest for academic laurels led him to the prestigious University of Benin where he bagged the Masters Degree in Public Administration in 1998.

His career in the private and public service began as a classroom teacher at the St Saviour’s Primary School, Ikirun (1979 – 1980) and the Holy Michael’s High School, Ikirun (1980 – 1982).

Although he has been practising as a journalist since 1982, freelancing with several private and public media, his formal entry into the pen pushing profession was in 1993 when he was engaged by the defunct Sketch Press Limited as a Reporter and later, Head, Education and Research Desk (1993 – 1995). He was later transferred to Benin where he assumed duty as the Zonal Editor for Edo and Delta States (1995 – 2000). He joined the Federal Civil Service as a Principal Officer in May, 2000 at the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), and rose through the ranks to the position of a Deputy Director and Head, Public Affairs in 2012. In 2014, he was elevated to the position of Head of Department, Office of the Registrar/Chief Executive.

Significant among the numerous awards won by Mr. Adeyemi Brown in school and in the world of work include but not limited to the following:

Best Broadcaster and Debater Award, Baptist College, Ede, 1979
Nigeria Television Authority, Ibadan, Award for Best Drama & Poetry Presentation (1984)
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), National Writing Competition Award (1989)
Nigeria Union of Journalists Award for Professional Excellence (Sketch Press Limited) (1998)
Also worthy of mention is Mr. Brown’s modest contribution to national and community development. Notable among these is his proposal on Civic Education for Sustainable National Development presented to the then Military Governor of Oyo State, Oladayo Popoola (1984) which was hijacked and later presented as the Mass Mobilization for Social and Economic Research (MAMSER) in 1985.

A prolific writer, Newspaper Columnist and Commentator on Public Affairs, Mr Adeyemi Brown has equally written several proposals bordering on Security and Sustainable National Development for State Governments and Parastatals of the Federal Government.

Perhaps it will equally be pertinent to state that Mr. Brown served as a Research Assistant (on Politics and Religion in Africa) to the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka in “the quest to end military rule in Africa by 1995,” under the aegis of the African Democratic League before the noble plan was aborted by the catastrophic annulment of the June 12, 1992 elections.

He is happily married with children.

STRATEGY, REFORM COORDINATION, AND, SERVICE IMPROVEMENT DEPARTMENT
(Mr. Adeyemi Michael Ademola – Deputy Director)

The Department of Strategy, Reform Coordination, and Service Improvement was created in 2015 and has the following main Duties:

• Manage the Department to serve as a focal point for driving all change, reform, innovation and improvement efforts within the Board in line with the overall framework set by BPSR, OHCSF and other Central Agencies of Government;
• Work with Leadership of the Board to identify processes, systems and service gap and with BPSR and OHCSF, FME, NCE, NBTE, NERDC and other agencies to develop interventions to eliminate such gaps;
• Coordinate, drive, monitor and report on the Reform Agenda for the Board;
• Troubleshoot service failure and Develop proposals to address them;
• Research and identify good practices that can be adapted/adopted to improve service delivery in the Board;
• Liaise with the Board’s Departments and the OHCSF, FME etc to develop refine, improve and recommend more efficient processes and systems for the Board to achieve its objectives;
• Develop and launch initiatives to drive and maintain a continuous service improvement culture within the Board;
• Develop and deploy change management tools and practices to institute sustainable improvements in the Board;
• Assist the leadership of the Board to articulate and coordinate their change agenda in line with service policies and standards;
• Formulate, coordinate the implementation, and monitor strategic plans for the Board;
• Formulate , implement and monitor marketing plans for the Board;
• Stakeholder Engagements,
• Forging of strategic alliances and general Management of Stakeholders, partners and Regulators;
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the Registrar/Chief Executive

The Acting HOD, Deputy Director General Services Department, Mr. Gabriel AntakilYallamu was born on the 2^nd October, 1960 at Gulak, Madagali Local Government Area in Adamawa State. He holdsa MSC.Degree in Rural Development at ModiboAdamaUniversity of TechnologyYolaAdamawa State and a licensed Teacher by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN)

The officer started his working career in 1980 with Michika Local Govrnment Authority, later moved to Adamawa State Post Primary Schools Management Board, Yola. He started as a Master Grade II Officer GL 07/2 and rose to Chief Education Officer on GL 10/2 after sixteen (16) years of meritorious service with Adamawa State Ministry ofEducation before joining the NABTEB in1996 as Test Administration Officer I.

He was posted to Yola as the first Zonal Officer in-charge of Adamawa,Borno, Taraba, and Yobe States. In 2009, State Offices were established in all the States of the Federation; Where North East Zone was made up of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe and Taraba States with State Officers in Charge of each State. However, Gabriel AntakilYallamu was made to be the North East Zonal Coordinator for North East Zone.

Gabriel AntakilYallamu is happily married with children.

Gabriel AntakilYallamu was born to the family of late Mr and MrsYallamu on 2^nd October, 1960 in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

He attended Local Education Authority Primary School, Limankara, Gwoza Local Government Area, Borno State (1969 –1975),Government Teachers College Mubi (1975 – 1980) for his Teachers Grade 11 Certificate, College of Education Jalingo (1983 – 1985) UsmanuDanfodioUniversity Sokoto (1988 – 1991) for his Bachelor of Science degree in Education/Geography,

Federal University of Technology, Yola (2002- 2004),for his Post Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning, Federal University of Technology, Yola (2007-2015) for Masters of Science, in Rural Development.

Upon  X- raying his unquantifiable contributions to the growth and popularization of NABTEB as an esteemed examination body and its consequent acceptabilitywithin the grass-root populace, especially in the North East Zone where he pioneered as a Zonal Coordinator and his numerous land mark achievement in the discharge of his schedule within the Zone and State levels.

He was promoted to Deputy Director on 1^st January, 2015.

On 9^th March 2020, He was redeployed to the headquarters as Acting Head of Department, General Services Department.