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Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has declared a curfew in 10 local government areas of the state.

DAILY POST gathered that the 10 local government areas are those surrounding the Old Oyo National Park.

Our correspondent reports that the park has been a source of concern for residents.

It was learnt that the park is where the students and teachers who were kidnapped recently are being held by bandits.

Our correspondent learnt that 39 students and seven teachers were kidnapped last month in some communities in Oriire Local Government Area of the state.

Makinde on Tuesday declared a curfew in the 10 local government areas surrounding the park.

The declaration of the 16-hour curfew in the 10 local government areas was contained in a statement issued by the Secretary to the Oyo State Government, Professor Musibau Babatunde.

The statement was made available to DAILY POST through the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Dr Sulaimon Olanrewaju, on Tuesday evening.

The statement said that the curfew takes effect from Wednesday, June 24, 2026.

It added that the curfew will run from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. and will last for 48 hours in the first instance.

The affected local government areas are: Oriire (Headquarters: Ikoyi-Ile), Orelope (Headquarters: Igboho), Irepo (Headquarters: Kisi), Saki West (Headquarters: Saki), Saki East (Headquarters: Ago-Amodu), Atisbo (Headquarters: Tede/Ago-Are), Itesiwaju (Headquarters: Otu), Iseyin (Headquarters: Iseyin), Olorunsogo (Headquarters: Igbeti) and Atiba (Headquarters: Offa-Meta, Oyo).

Borrow2222:
Security in the SW now is very terrible.

They had better do everything possible to check it at this early stage, or else it will engulf the whole region.

The APC FG and their supporters don't really care about the SW. They just hide behind tribalism to make you guys feel they care, while in reality they don't mind sacrificing everyone just to retain power.

The APC is against every right-thinking person in Nigeria, no matter your region.

Bobodee09:
K

Security is very terrible down here but millions keep moving inter- state every day....... people from one region keep running down in night buses.

Keep the fire of your delusion burning.

SlavaUkraini:
https://dailypost.ng/2026/06/23/breaking-makinde-declares-curfew-in-10-oyo-lgas-over-abduction-of-students-teachers/

Borrow2222:
Security in the SW now is very terrible.

They had better do everything possible to check it at this early stage, or else it will engulf the whole region.

The APC FG and their supporters don't really care about the SW. They just hide behind tribalism to make you guys feel they care, while in reality they don't mind sacrificing everyone just to retain power.

The APC is against every right-thinking person in Nigeria, no matter your region.

SlavaUkraini:
https://dailypost.ng/2026/06/23/breaking-makinde-declares-curfew-in-10-oyo-lgas-over-abduction-of-students-teachers/

Menclothing1:
The gov use 3 weeks to react 4 weeks to give curfew lolz
This one is a failure in security matter u travel to buy drone 2 years ago where are they u bought amd keep
In office

Till today oyo state and all southern state don’t have security situation room where 100 of camera should be on strategic place and drone for 24 hrs monitoring employ 50 youth on shift
Have 500 security personal of swift response no bandit attack have more than 200 personnel

Our leaders are so daft

Houseofglam7:
Omg! Several weeks later!
I’m speechless!

dragunov:
Seyi will end up in a serious mess and everlasting disgrace. Politically, he is finished. Might even end up in jail.

theophorus:
16hrs curfew? To do what gangan?
Mr. Seyi he be like your Gentility before actions na just Cruise.

Mr. Engr.Sir.
Most of the roads you rehabilitated has start showing the quality of work done ooo.

Mattswaggz:
Clueless leaders....the know the root of the problem but they chose to keep on chasing shadows in the name of sophisticated politics that has only brought them more doom and destruction.

EkoIle1:
It is now abundantly clear that President Jonathan has finally bared his fangs confirming what was widely speculated. By declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, he has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these States. We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.

The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015.

Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.

Let me be quick to say that this administration will be setting in motion a chain of events the end of which nobody can predict. Experience has shown clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness. The present scenario playing out in the country reminds one of the classical case of a mediocre craftsman who continually blames the tools of his trade for his serial failure but refuses to look at his pitiable state with a view to adjusting.

It has become crystal clear, even to the most incurable optimist, that the country is adrift. That the ship of the Nigerian state is rudderless is clearly evident in the consistent and continual attacks ferociously executed by elements often referred to as the insurgents in some northern states of the federation, particularly Borno and Yobe states respectively.

Indeed, no part of the country is immune from the virulent but easy attacks, veritable indices of a failing state. Unfortunately, the tenuous and uncoordinated approach adopted by this government betrays a grossly incompetent disposition which stands at variance with current realities in the country, nay the international community where acts of terrorism are engaged and contained. No Governor of a state in Nigeria is the Chief Security Officer. Putting the blame on the Governors, who have been effectively emasculated, for the abysmal performance of the government at the centre which controls all these security agencies, smacks of ignorance and mischief.

http://premiumtimesng.com/opinion/134435-jonathan-goes-for-broke-by-bola-ahmed-tinubu.html

AMINDA:
Yes, but Okowa and Yahaya Bello are walking free and running for senate. Jail time is only reserved for anyone who does not support or bow to Tinubu in his quest to capture Nigeria for himself and cronies.

AMINDA:
Yes, but Okowa and Yahaya Bello are walking free and running for senate. Jail time is only reserved for anyone who does not support or bow to Tinubu in his quest to capture Nigeria for himself and cronies.

Dalohad:
Tinubu has finished this country and he doesn't care if 1 million people die everyday, as long he is in power..

Tinubu, Nigerians are kicking you out by next year. If you try to use rig by force, then I pity you..