Zamfara Gov Appoints Hajia Yaro, ZIPA Executive Secretary

Hajia Mariam Yaro has been appointed as the new Executive Secretary of the Zamfara State Investment Promotion Agency (ZIPA) by Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal.

Hajia Yaro, a native of Zamfara State’s Maru Local Government Area, was the Head, the Minimum Pension Guarantee Unit at the National Pension Commission in Abuja before her appointment as ZIPA Executive Secretary.

Hajia Yaro also led the Corporate Responsibility & SERVICOM Department’s SERVICOM Unit and later served on the Commission’s Ministerial SERVICOM Unit (MSU), which assures excellent service delivery inside the commission. She and her squad were named the 2018 Best Squad A. She then became the chief of the Commission’s Deceased Benefit Unit.

In the mid-1990s, she began her career in the Administration Department of Chevron Nigeria Limited. She worked as a Public Relations Officer for the Petroleum Equalisation Fund Management Board from February 1997 to August 2001.

She later joined the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), where she served as a pioneer member of the Power Sector Reform Team (PSRT) until April 2007. Hajia Yaro later collaborated with consultants in Phase 1 – the establishment of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission.

Hajia Yaro earned an Executive MBA from the London School of Business and Management in the United Kingdom and a Post-Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Public Relations and Advertising from the International Institute of Journalism. Hajia Yaro previously earned her first degree in Biological Science.

For her secondary school, she attended Sacred Heart Science School in Tunbridge Wells, England, for her ‘A’ Level, and Hunmanby Hall School in North Yorkshire, England, for her GCSE in 1988. She has also taken numerous management courses in Nigeria and abroad.

This resourceful Management and Public Relations expert says she invests her personality and expertise in strategic management in all she does with a view to realising the common goal, interest and advancement of any organisation she heads.

Hajia Yaro also defined herself as “committed to human, personal, and national development. Talented administrator, energetic self-starter with strong analytical, organisational, and creative abilities.”