When students began collapsing in classrooms and parents received distress calls from schools, fear spread rapidly across Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State. With children rushed to hospitals and classes disrupted by a mysterious odour later linked to methane emissions, residents are demanding answers, DANIEL AYANTOYE writes
On June 3, 2026, Mrs Bukky Salami received a distressing message that her daughter, Motunrayo, an SS1 student of Our Lady of Apostles Secondary School, Ijebu-Ode, had been rushed to the hospital after inhaling a strange odour that had once again invaded the school environment.
Just weeks earlier, on May 15, the same mysterious smell had caused panic among students and teachers, forcing many children to return home sick.
But this time, the situation was worse.
“I wondered how a child who left home healthy in the morning could end up in the general hospital,” Salami said.
Rushing to the State General Hospital, Ijebu-Ode, she
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