Alhassan Yakmut

Alhassan Yakmut
Director/Secretary to the Board on Civil Defence Corps, Correctional Services and Immigration Services, Ministry of Interior
Assumed office
June 2018
Director, Planning, Research and Statistics
In office
2017  June 2018
Director, Special Duties, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs
Assumed office
3 March 2016
Director-General, National Sports Commission
In office
April 2015  March 2016
Preceded byGbenga Elegbeleye
Personal details
Born (1961-05-05) 5 May 1961
Ampang-West, Plateau State, Plateau State, Nigeria
Alma materL.E.A. Primary School, Ampang West, Plateau State.

Boys’ Secondary School, Gindiri. Ahmadu Bello University. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State. University of Jos, Plateau State. Academie Internationale des Sciences et Techniques du Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Business School, Netherlands

Mallam Alhassan Yakmut is a Nigerian professional Volleyball player and Sports administrator born on 5 May 1961 in Ampang-West, Plateau State; however he is from Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State.

He was the last Director General of the now defunct National Sports Commission, a Muslim and a Senior Staff in the Nigerian Civil Service and a member of the Board of the Nigeria Volleyball Federation.

He is the Director/Secretary to Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nigeria Correctional Services (NCS) - formerly Nigeria Prisons Services- and Nigeria Immigration Services (NIS) Board in the Ministry of Interior in the Nigerian government.

In 2017, he served as the Director Planning, Research and Statistics in the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. and Director of Employee Relations and Welfare in the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation in the Nigerian government.