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 Director, General Services Department, Alhaji Hamisu Mamuda Sayaya was born on the 30th November, 1958 at Sayaya, Matazu Local Government Council in Katsina State. He holds a B.A. (Edu) Geography of Bayero University Kano and a licensed Teacher by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN)

The officer started his working career in 1987, with the defunct Kaduna State Ministry of Education, later moved to Katsina State Ministry of Education within the same year. He started as a master Grade II officer GL 08/2 and rose to Chief Education Officer on GL 13/2 after fifteen (15) years of meritorious service with Katsina State Ministry of Education before joining NABTEB in year 2000 as Chief Test Administration Officer.

He was posted to Maiduguri as the first Zonal Coordinator in-charge of Borno, Bauchi and Yobe States. After his promotion to Assistant Director in year 2005, he was posted to North West Zonal Office in Kaduna State as the Zonal Coordinator in-charge of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara States.

Alhaji Hamisu, Mamuda Sayaya was promoted as Deputy Director on 1st January 2010. He was posted to Examinations Development Department from September 2014 to March 2015 as Deputy Director (Examinations Development Department).

Alhaji Hamisu Mamuda Sayaya is married with children.

Alh. Hamisu Mamuda was born to the family of late Mallam and Mrs. Mamuda of Sayaya in Matazu Local Government Area of Katsina State. He attended L.E.A. primary school Sayaya (1969-1975), Katsina Teachers College (1975-1980) for his Teachers Grade II Certificate, School of General Studies Bayero University Kano, Kano State (1981-1982) and Faculty of Education Bayero University, Kano (1982-1985) for his Bachelor of Art degree in Education/Geography.

Upon x – raying his unquantifiable contributions to the growth and popularization of NABTEB as an esteemed examination body and its consequent acceptability within the grassroot populace especially in the area where he pioneered as a zonal co-coordinator and his numerous land mark achievement in the discharge of his schedule both within the headquarter, zonal and state levels, Management thereafter forwarded his name to the Governing Board for approval as a Director of the Federal Republic and was subsequently deployed to head the nascent department of general services that was newly created at that time as a substantive Director, a post he holds till date.