Academic activities were brought to a total standstill across all 33 Local Government Areas of Oyo State on Monday, June 1, 2026, as public primary and secondary educational institutions were completely shut down.
The mass closure followed an emergency directive issued by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) for workers to embark on an aggressive solidarity strike.
The industrial action was organized to register deep public anger over the continued, agonizing captivity of dozens of pupils and teachers who were violently abducted from three learning centers in the Ahoro-Esiele and Yawota communities of Oriire Local Government Area exactly 18 days ago on May 15, 2026.
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Visibly unprepared parents in urban networks like Ibadan North, Ibadan South West, and Oluyole LGAs were forced to turn their uniformed children back home on Monday morning as information regarding the strike spread.
In Ogbomoso, the emotional toll of the crisis boiled over as weeping mothers and community activists staged matching street protests.
Meanwhile, in the capital city of Ibadan, members of civil liberty groups, including the Take-It-Back Movement, defied heavy security deployments to demand immediate, kinetic action from the federal and state governments.
Protesters lambasted the slow pace of rural intelligence operations, pointing out the psychological trauma of leaving young children exposed to harsh forest conditions.
"The children are my tomorrow, my hope. Please help me," a distraught mother pleaded openly in tears, summarizing the collective despair gripping the state.
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