The National Association of Nigeria Students and Take It Back Movement Nigeria, on Thursday, traded words over the abduction of schoolchildren and their teachers in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State.

The duo engaged themselves verbally during a Town Hall Series, Oyo State, organized by the News Central, with the theme, “Oyo At A Crossroads: Security, Safety and The Future,” held at Ibadan Civic Centre, Agodi in Ibadan, the state capital.

In their separate interviews with The PUNCH on the sideline of the meeting, NANS and the movement disagreed over the recent protest on the Oyo abductees in which the duo clashed around Bodija in Ibadan North Local Government Area of the state.

The PUNCH reports that many school children and their teachers were abducted during coordinated attacks on Baptist Nursery and Primary School, Yawota, Community Grammar School and L.A. Primary School, Esiele, in Oriire Local Government, on Friday, May 15, 2026.

Speaking with our correspondent, the state Assistant General Secretary of NANS Joint Campus Council, Damilare Olayemi, alleged that CSO has always been found of castigating students’ body whenever issue of national important arises.