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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.

Writer’s Diary: How GB-Whatsapp Made Me Lose Journalism Training Opportunity

By Bashirat Durojaye A four-day journalism training program was planned by the Center for Journalism Innovation Development (CJID) for mass communication students and campus journalists at Usmanu Danfodiyo University in Sokoto. As part of the registration procedures, prospective applicants were required to prepare and submit a 100-word piece on the subject of “The importance of…

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The Wisdom Of Our Journalism

By Muhammad Akindele Journalism to some people may seem to be annoying, because they think it focuses on negativity. Not only that, some people think that their privacy is being interrupted during interviews with journalists. However, others perceived it as an integral part of our democracy Journalism has been defined by Wikipedia “as the production…

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Fingers are not Equal: Why Some Students Shouldn’t Be Blamed for Resuming Late to School

By Muhammad Akindele To some students, especially the freshers, resumption always comes with internal and external alacrity. Many reasons are invariably accountable for this. The most unique among them is financial stability, because some students receive perfect attention from home whenever they are in school, much better than home. Thus, they see school as a…

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Balancing Academic and Leadership: The Story of UDUS Female First-class Graduate

By Asiat Meikudi At the baseline of gaining admission into Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Mahmood Loke Rodiah, a first-class graduate from the department of Zoology in the 2020/2021 academic session had the mindset of serving as leader and preserving students welfare. Her initial dream prevailed beyond reading and working behind the curtain of the classroom….

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Faculty of Law Wins ZTC Oratory Contest

Amanatullah Yusuf reports The Faculty of Law in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto has emerged winner of the inter-faculty oratory contest organized by Zero Tolerance for Corruption( ZTC), campus branch of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission(EFCC). The contest, themed ‘Embezzlement and Misappropriation of Public Funds Directly Led to Inefficiency of Public Service Delivery,’ was held…

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