A joint security team comprising the Nigerian Army and Police, backed with intelligence from the Department of State Services (DSS) have rescued all the school children and teachers kidnapped on May 15, 2026, by armed bandits in Oyo State.
Security sources confirmed that, during the operation, at least nine of the bandits were neutralized, bringing to an end the nearly two months in captivity of the children and their teachers.
According to the sources familiar with the operation, the joint security forces, relying on intelligence from the DSS, swooped on the abductors early Friday morning.
The victims, made up of school children and their teachers, the sources said, are on their way to Ibadan to meet the state governor, Seyi Makinde.
The armed bandits reportedly linked to a Boko Haram faction—abducted 39 pupils and seven teachers during coordinated morning raids on three schools in the Yawota and Ahoro-Esiele communities of Oriire Local Government Area, Oyo State. Sadly, a mathematics teacher in Community High School, Ahoro-Esinele in Oriire Local Government Area of the state, Michael Oyedokun, who was among those kidnapped, was later beheaded by the bandits.