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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.

GNI Shortlists Successful Applicants for Academic Mentorship Cohort 2

Abdullahi Yusuf reports  Greenline Nurture Initiative (GNI), a non-profit organization, has shortlisted the names of its successful applicants for the academic mentorship cohort 2. This was made known through the organization’s Facebook handle on Thursday, 22nd June. GNI Academic Mentorship Cohort is a free 6-month mentorship program organized by the Greenline Nurture Initiative for excellent…

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Carryover, Spill Over…UDUS Graduates Share Survival Stories of Campus

By Asiat Meikudi  6th January 2018 was a colorful and happiest day for Abdulrasheed Abdulquadri as he stepped his foot in the Seat of Caliphate to begin his disciplinary of Adult Education— a four-year bachelor degree programme at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. As a young and enthusiastic undergraduate, he had envisioned a glittering and enjoyable…

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FAMSA-UDUS to Hold Monthly Environmental Sanitation

Abdulganiyu Azeez reports  The Faculty of Management Sciences Students Association(FAMSA), Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto has set to organize its monthly environmental sanitation. According to a memo released on Thursday, 22nd June and signed by the president of the association, Bello Kabiru, the exercise will be held on Sunday, 25th June by 4pm. The association therefore…

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Students Loan: Solution or Burden?

By Akaje Maimunat  First introduced in 2016 and sponsored by the Speaker of the 9th House of Representatives, Femi Gbajamiala, the students loan bill was signed into law by president Ahmed Bola Tinubu. Though it raised loud cries and bile of the masses, the law provided no exclusion to Nigerians as it enabled all indigenous…

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