Following a nine-year suspension, the University of Lagos has reinstated its Students’ Union Government (SUG).

This has come with the election of new student leaders for the 2025/2026 academic session.

UNILAG confirmed this in a statement on the university’s website on Friday.

According to the statement, the university authorities conducted an election on Friday, which produced the Students’ Union President and General Secretary as part of the transition process toward the full restoration of the union.

The election was coordinated by the Directorate of Student Affairs led by the Dean, Professor Johnson Agunsoye, and took place at the Common Room of Moremi Hall on the university campus.

The institution explained that the officers were elected from among the current set of faculty presidents in line with the guidelines established for the transition process toward restoring the union.

“At the end of the exercise, Bolaji Akinpelu of the Faculty of Arts emerged as the President with a total of nine votes while Daniel Solomon of the Faculty of Computing and Informatics was elected General Secretary with nine votes,” the statement read.