Sanwo-Olu Reappoints Akosile As Chief Press Secretary

Eko Hot Blog reports that Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has reappointed Mr. Gboyega Akosile as his Chief Press Secretary (CPS).

The appointment was announced in a statement issued on Monday by the Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola.

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The appointment, according to the Head of Service, takes immediate effect.

Before his reappointment, Akosile had served as Sanwo-Olu’s Chief Press Secretary during his first term.

He was also the Media Adviser to the Governor since the inception of the second term of his administration on May 29, 2023.

Akosile, born in Lagos Island on the 8th of November, 1971, attended University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Performing Arts.

After passing out of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), he joined the Lagos State Television (LTV) as a reporter and later became a producer.

The Lagos governor’s spokesperson later took up a role as a presenter, reporter and producer at Channels TV where he was involved in the daily news production as well as presentation two in-house programs.

Akosile also explored radio broadcasting, joining Cool FM 96.9 FM, which had just launched two years earlier, as Senior Reporter and Desk Editor in 2001. He also doubled as Public Relations/Protocol Officer while at the station.

He returned to the state-owned LTV as a producer in 2002 in consultancy capacity. In 2004, he took up a bigger role as Head of News at MITV.

A quest for further knowledge led Akosile to the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, where he bagged a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) in 2008.

Akosile was a media consultant to the World Bank for some years.

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Armed with sound knowledge of the socio-political space, he became a Media Assistant to then governorship candidate Sanwo-Olu in 2019.

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