Pressure mounts on Sanwo-Olu to reinstate dismissed LASU lecturers, seven years after

However, despite a recommendation by the university’s governing council to reinstate the sacked lecturers, the state government and the university have yet to reinstate them.

In a 2025 appeal to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Concerned Sons and Daughters of Ikoga-Zebbe Kingdom in Badagry urged him to intervene and “lift the embargo his government placed on the implementation of the decision of the LASU Governing Council on 23 February 2022.” Refusal to reinstate the lecturers In February 2022, the David Sunmoni-led Governing Council of the university reinstated the lecturers after an Appeal Committee headed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Adenike Boyo, cleared the lecturers of all offences and recommended their reinstatement.