[REVIEW] Sacrifice and Sacrilege: Taming An Uncultured Culture of MutilationBy : Ameenah Gambari Mutilation and tribal incision — as a traditional means of beauty or identification — is what has been recently gaining attention and rejection. The act is therefore termed as being barbaric, especially in the 21st century. Those who objected to this act make…

Taoheed A. Adegbite reports As it is just days left for students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto to move to the poll and elect new set of leaders to the helms of affairs of students’ union. Faruk Barade; a 400-level student of Law and one of the presidential aspirants in the forthcoming 2019 Student’s Union…

 SOZECOM Puts Smile On Jemimah’s Face, Gets Her New Wheelchair Mustapha Abdullateef reports The Sokoto State Zakat and Waqf Endowment Commission (SOZECOM) has on Saturday, 20th of April 2019 presented a new Wheelchair to Miss Jemima Dauda, at the state headquarters of the commission – as a way of aiding the determination to actualise her…

Vice Chancellor Lauds Stella, Charges Graduands To Be Good Ambassadors Taoheed Adegbite reports The Vice Chancellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto has lauded Stella Emelife Chinelo ; a 2012/13 First Class graduate of chemistry from UDUS – as she broke a 100-year old record at the Mysore University,India. This was disclosed on Saturday, 13th April,…

By Ibrahim Adeyemi NEWS DIGEST – It’s  APRIL FOOL, the only month, when the world  talk about fooling and foolishness. Isn’t  it fun to talk about  foolishness? Foolishness is part  of life,  take it or leave  it. A society  without folly will not get to the  promised land. Is it not because  of the wise…

EXAMINATION BLUES: How GST Mass Failure Hits UDUS Students Olokooba Abdulwasiu reports While many students would consider a Computer Based Test (CBT) for the General Studies (GST) exam and see it as a technological advancement, students of the Faculty of Arts and Education, respectively, have no good impression about it.  They have, unscrupulously, been ‘endowed’…

The Forgotten Rural Schools Muhyideen Kolawole Irreversible though, the memory of the mid 19s, opposition rivalry between the Action Group and NCNC; consequence of a tumor expanding in my mother’s brain. The poor woman could not forgive her mother who denied her western education even though, the gone grandma’s mind was polluted by the agencies…

3 REASONS WHY SUG’S PARKING-LOT PROJECT IS A SCAM By: Muneer So, I was asked why Muneer Yaqub has never seen anything good in this administration of UDUS’ Students’ Union. You laughed. Yes, so did I. Well, perhaps because Journalism has no other definition to me than one: exposing the ills of the society, for…

MOROCCO: The Holy Land Of Sinful Lovers in UDUS By Ibrahim Olarotimi I had waited for more than an hour and I was set to get upset by her delay. She told me to come by 8:00pm and it was already 9:25pm. I was trouble-minded. The next thing I saw was the beep of my…

COLOURLESS WATER, COBWEBBED TANKS (2) : ” I ordered them to get lids…. and to make sure those tanks are washed” By : Olokooba Abdulwasiu While many students either born with silver spoon in their mouth or not,for healthy purpose subscribe not to the waters from the hostel water-tanks , mayhaps due to its atimes…