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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.

“Students Who Have Already Paid School Fees May Lose Their Money”— SU CTC Chairman

Isiaq Ibrahim reports    The Chairman Caretaker Committee (CTC) for Students’ Union, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS),Muhammad Shamsudeen said students who had already paid their school fees may end up losing their money. It was gathered that students have been seeing updates of the amount of tuition fees on their portal with roughly 50% increment…

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UCL: City Thrashes Bayern Munich 3-0

By Muheeb Mashood    Manchester City have a claimed a comfortable 3-0 victory over Bayern Munich on Tuesday at the Etihad Stadium in the first-leg clash of the UEFA Champions League Quarter-final. Goals delivered by Rodri, Bernardo Silva and in-form Erling Halaand handled the Pep Guordiala’s side a resounding win to strengthen their chances towards…

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The Dangers of Child Marriage

By Ashiat Meikudi    Nigeria has the highest number of child marriage cases in West and Central Africa. A report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICE) pecked the number of girls and women married before the age of 18 at 23.6million, adding that about 10.3 million married even before the age of 15. The…

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EFD-UDUS Directs Graduating Students to Submit Research Project

Habeeb Olokooba reports   The Education Foundation Department (EFD), Faculty of Education and Extension Services (FEES), Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, UDUS, has directed recent graduating students to submit their project research to their various supervisors. The department consists of four unit courses, which includes, education Hausa, education English, education Islamic and education History. The information,…

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Two Digest Editors, Four Other UDUS Students Selected for CJID Training

Abdulrasaq kamaldeen reports   The Center for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), has selected the Editor-in-Chief of the News Digest Press, Shereefdeen Ahmad and the Managing Editor, Hussain Wahab for its 6-week virtual capacity-building training on Data Journalism. This was disclosed to them via a congratulatory mail received on Thursday, 6th April. According to the…

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