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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.

Displaced, Depressed and Distracted: The Travails of Benjee Fire Victims

By Shereefdeen Ahmad  The usual scorching sun in the Seat of Caliphate, Sokoto shined up when Monshur Musa went for Jumu’at_ an obligatory congregational prayer observed by Muslims every Friday. Ecstatic and delirious, Musa stayed behind to take pictures with his friends in the Mosque premises. While snapping, one of his friends  received a phone…

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Three Digest Reporters, Three Other UDUS Journalists Win Campus Reporter Awards

  Shereefdeen Ahmad reports  Three journalists of the News Digest Press, Abdulwasiu Olookoba, a 400-level law student, Abdulwaheed Sofiullah, a 400-level student of English Education and Abdulwasiu Mujeeb, a graduate of law at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto have won the  Next-Gen Campus Reporter Awards.   Recall that the News Digest Press reported how the student-journalists…

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Three Digest Reporters, Three Other UDUS Journalists Shortlisted for Campus Reporter Awards

  Shereefdeen Ahmad reports    Three journalists of the News Digest Press, Abdulwasiu Olookoba, a 400-level law student, Abdulwaheed Sofiullah, a 400-level student of English Education and Abdulwasiu Mujeeb, a graduate of law at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto have been shortlisted for the Next-Gen Campus Reporter Awards. Named in honor of professor Alfred Opubor for…

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Three Days After Total Blackouts, Electricity Restored in Jubril Aminu Hostel

  By Adeleke Adedayo  After three days of total blackouts at the Jubril Aminu and the neighbouring halls of residence, electricity supply has been restored for the residents. The electricity was restored around 11pm on Thursday night. The News Digest Press gathered that there was an electricity blackout since Tuesday night at Jubril Aminu hostel,…

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It Widened My Horizons,” UDUS Graduates Hail Extracurricular Activities for Capacity Building

By Shereefdeen Ahmad  In 2016, when Bashir Turawa was offered admission to study Literature-in-English in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, he was among the disciples of the philosophy that everything cannot be learnt within the four walls of the classroom. He made up his mind to study beyond what he would be taught in the lecture…

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