Security was significantly tightened in Abuja on Thursday ahead of a planned protest linked to activist Omoyele Sowore and the Take-It-Back Movement, with roads leading to key government locations blocked and commuters heavily affected.

Security agencies—including the police, military, FRSC, and NDLEA—barricaded access routes to the Presidential Villa at Aso Rock and Eagle Square, which was expected to serve as the protest venue. The restriction caused major traffic disruption, forcing many civil servants and other commuters to walk long distances to the federal secretariat area.

The protest was organized by the Take-It-Back Movement, led by activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore. It was intended to demand urgent government action to rescue schoolchildren and teachers abducted in Ogbomoso, Oyo State.

According to the report, no protesters had arrived at Eagle Square at the time of filing, despite the heavy security presence.

The demonstration follows earlier protests in Ibadan over the same incident involving multiple school attacks in Ogbomoso (Oriire LGA), where armed attackers abducted at least 45 pupils and teachers, killed several people—including an assistant headmaster and a motorcyclist—and later murdered one of the abducted teachers, intensifying public outrage.