The Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board (OYOSUBEB) has said that a teacher was killed after gunmen invaded a secondary school at Ahoro-Esinele community in Oriire LGA, and abducted the school principal alongside several students.

The attack occurred on Friday morning at Community High School throwing the area into panic as residents and parents scrambled for information about the victims.

In a statement issued on Friday, Nureni Adeniran, executive chairman of OYOSUBEB, described the incident as a painful tragedy for the state’s education sector.

“This is a dark and painful moment for our education family in Oyo State, and our hearts are with the affected parents, teachers and the entire community,” he said.

“We mourn with the family of the teacher whose life was tragically cut short. His service, dedication and sacrifice will never be forgotten.”

Residents said the attackers stormed the school between 8am and 9am, shooting the teacher before whisking away Rachael Alamu, the principal, and an unspecified number of students.

The assailants were reportedly armed and fled into a nearby forest reserve bordering the community after carrying out the attack.

Ayanlade Olayinka, spokesperson of the Oyo state police command, confirmed the incident, saying security operatives had already been mobilised to the area.

He said the command was still working to verify the exact number of students abducted during the attack.

According to him, the commissioner of police had departed for the community alongside a tactical team to coordinate response efforts and assess the situation.

Adeniran appealed to parents and residents not to panic, urging them to cooperate with security agencies handling the rescue operation and investigation.

The latest attack has renewed concerns over rising insecurity in parts of Oyo state.

The incident comes weeks after suspected terrorists attacked travellers along the Ibadan-Ijebu road in a failed kidnap attempt that left one person dead.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have intercepted a large consignment of Canadian Loud, a high-potency strain of cannabis, weighing 4,173.5 kilograms with a street value of over N10.4 billion (Ten Billion, Four Hundred and Thirty-Three Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) only at the Tincan Island Port in Lagos.

According to a statement issued on Wednesday by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, “The successful interdiction of the illicit drug consignment followed painstaking intelligence gathering, sustained surveillance, and trailing of the container, which was trans-loaded a number of times since it left Toronto, Canada on 28th March.”

Babafemi said the huge consignment was first conveyed through rails to Montreal, where it was loaded on board a vessel, Jakarta Express Voyage, which arrived at Tanger Med Port in Morocco on 15th April, discharged and reloaded on another vessel, Osaka voyage, which eventually arrived at Lagos Port on Saturday, 9th May 2026.

“The over two months of monitoring the shipment by the Marine Intelligence Unit of NDLEA and the Tincan Island Strategic Command of the Agency, working in close collaboration with international partners particularly the United Kingdom Home Office International Operations, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, culminated in the eventual seizure of the consignment on Tuesday 12th May during a joint examination of the container by NDLEA operatives, men of Customs Service and other security agencies,” the agency said.

The development comes barely four days after NDLEA operatives raided a Lekki mansion used as a stash house where 4,000 parcels of the same psychoactive substance weighing 2,326 kilograms worth over N5.8billion were recovered.

The illicit drug consignments from Canada were professionally packed and concealed inside two vehicles: a used Ford Bus and a Mercedes-Benz C300 car, stashed within the shipping container.

Speaking during the handover of the exhibits by the NCS at the Port in Lagos on Wednesday, the NDLEA’s Director of Seaports Operations, ACG Ibinabo ArchieAbia, said the “achievement once again demonstrates the effectiveness of inter-agency cooperation, international collaboration, and intelligence-driven operations in combating transnational organized crime and illicit drug trafficking.”

Reacting to the development, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), commended the officers of the Tincan Command and the MIU of the Agency for their vigilance and professional conduct.

He noted that the volume of recent Loud seizures highlights a coordinated attempt by international drug syndicates to flood the Nigerian market with synthetic strains of cannabis.

“This second massive seizure in less than a week is a clear message to the international syndicates who think they can use our ports as entry points for their soul-destroying trade, that the synergy between NDLEA and Customs Service as well as other security agencies and our international partners like the Canadian Royal Mounted Police, the UK-HOIO and the US DEA is yielding fantastic results.

“We will not rest until every link in this supply chain is broken and those behind these shipments are brought to justice,” Marwa stated.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have arrested three persons with disability, including a 60-year-old man, for alleged drug trafficking during separate operations in Anambra and Kwara States.

The agency also said it uncovered a ₦5.8 billion cannabis stash house in Lekki, Lagos State, and dismantled a skuchies production factory in Lagos.

This was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi.

According to the statement, Romanus Nwabara, 60, was arrested on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, after being traced to Akpaka Forest, Onitsha, Anambra State, where he was allegedly found with 250 grams of skunk packaged in retail sachets.

“In a different raid at Ogbunike area of the state, NDLEA officers on Thursday, May 7, arrested another PWD, Amos Kenneth, 25, with 160.3 grams of Tramadol (225mg and 100mg); 80 pills of Diazepam; 38.23 grams of Exol-5; and 176.93 grams of skunk.

“In Kwara, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Bode Saadu on Friday, May 8, intercepted a commercial vehicle and, in the course of a search, one of the passengers, a PWD, Usman Salisu, was found with 6.3 kilograms of skunk concealed in a brown school bag,” the statement read.

In a separate operation, operatives of the NDLEA Special Operations Unit on Friday, May 8, raided a Lekki, Lagos, mansion allegedly used as a drug stash house, where 4,000 parcels of Loud — a strong strain of cannabis — weighing 2,326 kilograms, with an estimated street value of over ₦5.815 billion, were recovered.

The agency said two Mercedes-Benz buses and designer sachets used for packaging illicit drugs were also seized from the building located at 36 African Lane, Lekki Phase 1.

Elsewhere, Babafemi said, “Emmanuel Osita Okeke, 38, was arrested with 129kg of skunk at Nyanya, Karu, Nasarawa State, on Monday, May 4, 2026.

“NDLEA operatives on patrol along the Okene–Lokoja highway, Kogi State, on Friday, May 8, intercepted a white commuter J5 bus heading to Abuja. A search of the vehicle led to the recovery of 76 jumbo bags of skunk weighing 766kg and the arrest of three suspects: Mathew Omohove, Ebuka Desmond, and Babangida Musa.”

He further stated that “in an operation at the Ijora Badia area of Lagos, NDLEA officers on Wednesday, May 6, raided a makeshift skuchies production factory where two suspects — Bose Jamiu and Gbenga Gege — were arrested.

“They were caught in the act of cooking cannabis and mixing same with other illicit substances. A total of 270 litres of already produced skuchies and 106 grams of Tramadol (225mg) were recovered from them.”