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The News Digest Press

The News Digest Press is a campus press outlet based at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. It covers both issues on the campus and beyond. On campus, Digest has won the Press Board of the Year award for three consecutive times_2018, 2019 and 2020. At national level, the press board has emerged as the winner of the Pen Club of the Year award at the 2019 annual campus journalism awards organized by the Youth Digest in Nigeria.

Amidst challenges, constituency-sponsored projects improved access to Girl-child education in Kebbi school

By Hussain Wahab  It is a scorching July afternoon, around 2 p.m., at Government Girls Science Comprehensive Secondary School in Argungu, Kebbi State. The school’s teachers and students are fully engrossed in their daily activities. Among them is Happiness Olamide, a 14-year-old student in Senior Secondary 1C. She is comfortably seated alongside her fellow students…

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The Menace of Social Media

By Bagidi Latifah Contrary to the saying that social media has done more harm than good to the world, the dominance of space is fueled by people’s impulse to communicate and by advances in digital technology. Presently, social media is part of the courses of death in Africa. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death…

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UDUS Introduces New Programs, Awaits NUC Assessment, Approval

Abdulrasaq Kamaldeen reports The management of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS) has on Wednesday, 13th September released the names of new programmes to be assessed and approved by the National Universities Commission(NUC). According to the circular released and signed by the school management, through its Director of Academic Planning, Dr. K.G Muhammad, the assessment is…

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Man United Faces Threat to lose Another Big-Match Player

Muheeb Mashood reports Both Brazilian police and the Greater Manchester police have commenced an investigation against the English club forward, Antony Matheus Dos Santos, following a sexual allegations by the player’s ex-girlfriend, Gabriela Cavallin Recall that the 23-year-old was dropped from the Brazil national team and missed two of the country’s World Cup qualifying matches…

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UDUS Students Plead Management Over Verification, Seek for Extension of Date

Isiaq Ibrahim and Abdulrasaq Kamaldeen report The students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto have pleaded to the school management to extend the period of the screening and verification exercise of the 2022/2023 academic session. Recall that according to the scheduled time table released by certificate and testimonial verification committee signed by the chairman of the…

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