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Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has confirmed the appointment of Akosile Gboyega as Chief Press Secretary (CPS).
Sanwo-Olu had on May 30, a day after he was sworn in as governor, named Akosile as Deputy Chief Press Secretary (DCPS) fueling speculations that a different person would be appointed as the CPS to the governor. That has now been rested with the confirmation of the Akosile on Wednesday, August 21.
Akosile was born on the Lagos Island on November 8, 1971. After his primary and post-primary education, Akosile attended the University of Ilorin, Kwara State and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Performing Arts.
On passing out from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in 1996, Akosile he joined the Lagos State Television as a reporter. He subsequently 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 of two in-house programmes.
To broaden his media expertise, he explored radio broadcasting, joining Cool FM 96.9fm in 2000, as on-air, senior reporter and desk editor. He also doubled as Public relations/protocol officer while at the station. He returned to the state-owned Lagos State Television as a producer in 2002 in consultancy capacity.
In 2004, he took up a bigger role as head of news at MITV.
Akosile later joined the newly recapitalised Minaj Broadcast International (MBI).
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.
With a career spanning over a dozen years, Gboyega Akosile decided to set up his own Media and Communication outfit, Bridgeworld Communication Company where he worked both as the Chief Executive Officer as well as Executive Editor of some of its news portfolios.
