Nigeria, Sept. 13 -- Seven years after the dismissal of five lecturers at Lagos State University (LASU), there are renewed calls for the state government to reinstate them.

The lecturers, leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the school, Isaac Oyewumi (chairperson), Adebowale Adeyemi-Suenu (vice-chairperson), Anthony Dansu (secretary), Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan (assistant secretary), and Oluwakemi Aboderin-Shonibare (treasurer), were dismissed during the university governing council's 122nd meeting on 12 September 2019.

Dubbed 'LASU Five,' they were accused of unauthorised removal and dissemination of confidential documents.

However, despite a recommendation by the university's governing council to reinstate the s...