Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, has appointed Hajia Mariam Yaro as the new Executive Secretary of the Zamfara State Investment Promotion Agency (ZIPA).
A statement by the Zamfara State government, which announced the development, said Hajia Yaro hails from Maru Local Government Area of the state and was until her latest appointment, the Head, Minimum Pension Guarantee Unit at the National Pension Commission, Abuja.
According to the statement, Hajia Yaro headed the SERVICOM Unit of the Corporate Responsibility & SERVICOM Department and subsequently served on the Commission’s Ministerial SERVICOM Unit (MSU).
She equally headed the Commission’s Deceased Benefit Unit.
“Between February 1997 and August 2001, she held the post of Public Relations Officer at the Petroleum Equalisation Fund Management Board and later joined the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, where she worked till April 2007 as a pioneer member of the Power Sector Reform Team, PSRT,” the statement added.
She was also involved in the setting up of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC.
She attended the London School of Business and Management in the United Kingdom for her Executive MBA, and the International Institute of Journalism for a Post-Graduate Diploma, PGD, in Public Relations and Advertising.
The Zamfara Investment Promotion Agency was established to attract local and foreign investors to Zamfara State for economic viability and growth.
Although Zamfara is regarded as one of the poorest states in the country, it is believed to have a large concentration of mineral resources including gold, iron ore, granite, limestone and chromate, among others.
