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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.

UDUS Management Directs Defaulters to Complete Registration at MIS

Muheeb Mashood reports  The management of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto has directed returning students who could not complete their registration for the 2022/2023 academic session to visit the Management of Information Systems(MIS) to carry out the exercise. This was contained in a circular released by the management on Monday, 26th June and signed by the…

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Health Stack: Food Allergy

By Mutalib Jibril  A food allergy is an abnormal immune response triggered by consuming certain foods. When a person with a food allergy takes the specific food, the immune system mistakenly identifies it as harmful and releases chemicals, such as histamine, to fight off the perceived threat. These chemicals can cause a wide range of…

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Importance of Yaw’mal Arafat

By Raji Toheeb  In Islam, there is sanctity to some four months in the Hijjrah calendar over others. However, this sanctity varies according to the divine will of Allah. Dhul Qa’dah is one of the sacred months where the initiation of fighting is prohibited. Then, Dhul Hijjah was the month of Arafat and Hajj. For…

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UDUS Campus Journalists Win $1500 Story Grants

Isiaq Ibrahim reports    Abdulwasiu Olokooba, the president of National Association of Campus Journalists (NACJ) in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and Abdulrasheed Hammad, the vice president of the association have won a grant of $1500 (USD) to pursue stories on religious extremism for International Center For Journalists(ICFJ). ICFJ in collaboration with Code For Africa, an…

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SOSSA-UDUS Sets Committee for Scholarship Verification

Abdulmajid Mutunji reports  The Sokoto State Students Association(SOSSA), Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto’s chapter has appointed a committee for the scholarship verification exercise of the 2022/2023 academic session. This was contained in a circular released by the association and signed by its staff advisers, Comrade Achida M.B and Comrade Tambari I.W. The committee, according to the…

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