Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has sworn in six new permanent secretaries. The ceremony took place on Monday in Ikeja, with members of two state service commissions also taking their oaths. Permanent secretaries are the senior career officials who run the day-to-day operations of government ministries. The service commissions handle appointments, promotions and discipline across the state's civil service. The appointments therefore fill influential posts within one of Nigeria's largest public administrations. Governors often use such swearing-in occasions to stress discipline and service delivery. The new appointees now take up duty in their respective posts across the Lagos bureaucracy. With the oaths administered, Monday's event quietly reshapes the top layer of the state's administrative machinery.