Hakeem Muri-Okunola Becomes Lagos State Head Of Service

All is set within the Lagos State Civil Service circle to confirm stylish Lagos big boy, Hakeem Muri-Okunola better known as HMO, as the 21st Lagos State Head of Service tomorrow December 31, 2018, BlackBox Nigeria can reliable report.

HMO who was redeployed as the  permanent secretary in the Lands Bureau of Lagos State to the Office of Sports by Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode in 2015, will be ending the year stepping into the highest office in the Lagos State Civil Service when he takes over the reign of office from Mrs. Folashade Adeseye, tomorrow.

Relatively young Hakeem joined the state civil service in 2001, at the age of 29 when he was appointed as the company secretary/legal adviser of Ibile Holdings.

After 2 years in that position, HMO who is the eldest son of the late Justice Muritala-Okunola, was appointed as the PA to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the then Executive Governor of Lagos State at the age of 31 years.

Raising steadily in the service like an helium filled balloon, HMO at age 33 was appointed the Executive Secretary to the Governor, Land Use and Allocation Committee, a very lucrative position, taking over from the now Senator Gbenga Ashafa who had moved on to become the Permanent Secretary Land Bureau; 6 years afterwards in 2011 at age 39, he again took over from the same Gbenga Ashafa, as the Permanent Secretary, Lands Bureau, under the Babatunde Raji Fashola administration.

It was from this position which he held till August 4, 2015, that he was redeployed and transferred to the Youths and Sports Ministry in Lagos State as the Permanent Secretary by the Akinwunmi Ambode administration.

Born in January 1972, HMO will be celebrating his 47 birthday as probably the youngest Head of Service to be appointed in Lagos State.

He is an alumni of the University of Lagos where he got his Bachelors (LLB) in law and then also Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, where he got his Masters in Business Law. He passed out of the Nigerian Law School in 1995.