Alhaji Saboli Mohammed Gwio was born on the 12th of February 1958. He attended the Ahmadu Bellow University Zaria where he obtained his LL.B (Hons) in 1985. He went to the Nigerian Law School Lagos and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1986. He did his National Service at Abeokuta in 1987.
Mr. Saboli joined the then Borno State Civil Service in 1987 as a State Counsel in the State Ministry of Justice. When Yobe State was created in 1991, his service was transferred to Yobe State Civil Service and served as Senior State Counsel in the Ministry of Justice in 1991. He was posted to Yobe State House of Assembly as the Acting Director Legal Drafting. He was later moved to the Yobe Investment Company as Manager Legal at the Legal Department of the Company. Saboli Mohammed was again posted to the State Housing and Property Development Corporation as Secretary Legal Adviser.
In 1999 Mr. Saboli was appointed Deputy Permanent Secretary/Solicitor General in the Ministry of Justice. He was later moved to the Governor’s Office as the Deputy Permanent Secretary (Parastatals Department). When the office nomenclature of the Deputy Permanent Secretary was abolished in State Civil Service, he was posted to the State Ministry of Justice as the Director Legal Drafting. He was appointed as Permanent Secretary and Solicitor General, Ministry of Justice in 2017 and retired from service in 2018.
During his service he was appointed and served in State Government various important Committees which include inter alia;
- Committe on the creation of new Fourty Local Governments in Yobe State
- Commitee on the review of the State Civil Service Rules and Conditions of Service
- Committee on the review of the Salary and Allowances of the State Health Workers
- Committee for the creation of the Yobe State University
- State Government Committee for the review of the Laws of the State
- Education enlighten Committee and
- Member Interim management Committee of Yobe Investment Company Limited
Mr. Saboli has attended several courses, workshops both within and outside the country prominent among which are Legislative and Commercial Drafting Course at the Institute of Advance Legal Studies, University of Lagos and Legislative Drafting Skill Course at the Institute of Advance Legal Studies University of London.