Comrade Biobelemoye J. Josiah was born on Wednesday, December 16, 1964 in Nembe-Bassambiri, in what is today Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa state. He attended St. Peters State School Odioma for his primary schooling, finishing there in 1976. By 1981, he secured his West Africa School Certificate (WASC) and two years later, was employed by the Rivers State Ministry of Health, while he pursued a medical laboratory course at the School of Health Technology, which he finished in 1986.

 

Bio, as he is fondly called, subsequently bagged a Higher Diploma in Environmental Health and Industrial Safety from the Institute of Administrative Management of Nigeria in 2013. This was after securing a Bachelors degree of the Rivers State University of Technology, nine years earlier. With the creation of Bayelsa state in 1996, he has been in the employment of the Bayelsa state Hospital Management Board since then, till date.

 

 

Comrade Biobelemoye is an experienced trade unionist who has served in all levels of the MHWUN organisation. Filled with a passion for justice and a fervent commitment to the cause of the working class, he has a sterling track record of stewardship at the local branch and state councils over the last three decade. He was the Bayelsa State Council Chairman from 2005 till he was elected as the 7th National President of MHWUN at the union’s 9th National Delegates Conference which held on April 28-29, 2015 and has also subsequently emerged as Chairman of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU).

 

Our dear National President, Comrade Bio who loves reading, music, playing scrabble and football, is happily married and blessed with children.