Sanwo-Olu appoints Tunde Alao as SSA media

Benjamin Omoike

Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has appointed a veteran journalist, Tunde Alao, as his Senior Special Assistant on Media.

The appointment takes immediate effect.

Alao has been drafted by the governor to pilot the media affairs of the office of the deputy governor.

Alao was born on December 16, 1965. He graduated from the University of Ilorin, with BSc in sociology in 1987 and proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism where he bagged a post-graduate diploma in journalism.

Quest for further education took him to the University of Lagos where he got a masters degree in sociology in 2005.

Alao has over 16 years experience in journalism, most of which he acquired at The Guardian where he worked in various positions between 2002 and 2016 before he joined the Nigerian Tribune.