President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Wale Babalakin and the Vice-Chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, to step aside. Ben Goong, Director of Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, said this in a statement on Friday. Babalakin and Ogundipe were directed to recuse themselves from duty “pending the outcome of the Special Visitation Panel” set up by the president. The seven-member panel, which is chaired by Tukur Sa’ad, former Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, has Victor Onuoha, Ikenna Oyindo, Ekanem Braide, Adamu Usman, and Jimoh Bankole as members.

The Governing Council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has on Wednesday announced the removal of the institution's vice-chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, appointing Prof. Theophilus O. Soyombo in an acting capacity. The sack was after crisis between Ogundipe and the governing council brewed over infractions and gross misconduct allegations, resulting in an emergency meeting by the council at the National Universities Commission (NUC) in Abuja led by the pro-chancellor and chairman of the council, Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN).

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has embarked on industrial action with effect from school resumption. The national President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke who spoke on behalf of JAC in Abuja disclosed that the leadership of SSANU and NASU were under tremendous pressure by its principals thus, “a strike action has been declared to commence effective from the date of resumption of work after the lifting of COVID-19 lockdown.

Lagos State government in conformity with the announcement of Federal Government directing students in exit classes in Nigeria to resume on Tuesday, August 4, 2020, said that all the SS3 and Technical Studies (TEC3) students in day and boarding schools can resume on Monday, August 3, 2020. Making the information public on Wednesday, the Commissioner for Education in the state, Folasade Adefisayo, stressed that only those mentioned (SS3 and Technical Study Three (TEC3) students) are permitted to resume to allow them to revise classes preparatory to their forthcoming West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

The Federal Ministry of Education orders reopening schools for existing classes only, classes are to begin on the 4th of August 2020.

The Federal Ministry of Education through the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba has stated that students may be asked to sit for the General Certificate Examinations (GCE) which is usually held in November as the country may fail to meet up with this year’s West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) timetable due to the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the country.