In the quiet corridors of Oriire, Oyo State, a grievous silence has fallen where laughter and learning should reign. Teachers who once stood as beacons of knowledge and more than forty pupils; some heartbreakingly as young as two years old have been wrenched from the tender ordinariness of school life into a terrifying unknown. Their only transgression, it seems, was the ancient and noble act of seeking education: to sit, to listen, to learn.