Excitement as Sanwo-olu visits Government House correspondents

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-olu has urged the Government House correspondents to be professional in the discharge of their duty, while calling for “fair reportage” of his administration’s activities.

Sanwo-olu spoke when he led senior government officials, including his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat; Head of Service, Hakeem MuriOkunola, and Secretary to the State Government, Folashade Jaji, on a courtesy visit to the State House correspondents at Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in the secretariat.

The Press Centre is the operation base of all reporters, under the aegis of Lagos Governor’s Office Correspondents ( LAGOCO), who are covering activities of the Lagos government.

Also part of the Governor’s entourage included the Chief of Staff, Tayo Ayinde, his deputy, Gboyega Soyannwo, and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of

Information, Fola Adeyemi.

The Deputy Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Gboyega Akosile, said Sanwo-olu’s visit to the Press Centre was a move by the Governor to familiarise himself with the people that are having day-to-day interface with the activities of his government.

Describing the Press Centre as a “newsroom” for the State House correspondents, Akosile informed the Governor that the media materials daily sent out from the facility reached over 3,000 media platforms and outlets across the country. This, he said, makes the Press Centre as the ‘most vibrant’ in media capability, expertise and reach.

Since his appointment by the Governor, Akosile said he had improved the capability of the Press Centre by setting up in-house digital team and Online Television, christened Lagospress TV on Youtube, which will be operated by the civil servants working in facility.