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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.

FBAN Sets To Hold 4th Annual Conference

Abdulrasaq Kamaldeen reports    The Freshwater Biological Association of Nigeria (FBAN) in the department of Biological Sciences of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto has set to stage its 4th annual conference. According to a circular released on Thursday, 6th July and signed by the Secretary Conference Organizing, Dr I.M. Magami, the conference will be held on…

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Virtues of Selfishness and Altruism

By Abdulfatai Yunus Duke Elligton once said that Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves’. It is known in the history of humanity and psychology that not all selfishness is necessarily bad and not all altruism is good. The…

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Registration: Again, Danfodiyo Varsity Reopens Portal, Gives New Deadline

Akaje Maimunat reports  The management of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, has once again reopened the portal for the 2022/2023 academic session’s registration exercise. This was contained in the circular dated on Tuesday, 4th July and signed by Director of University Examination and Registration, S.O. Abuh. Recall that the management had earlier stated that students who…

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GNI to Hold Vision Care Outreach Programme

Jumoke Esuola rreports  The Greenline Nurture Initiative(GNI) is set to organize a 2-day vision care outreach event for women and children in Sokoto State. The programme, according to the co-founder of GNI, professor Jimoh Olaiya Amzat, will provide free testing and corrective lenses for people who have refractive eyes defects. In a flier released by…

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