Hussain Wahab Reports The students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto have lamented the poor telecommunication service in the main campus. According to the students, the network connection of MTN, 9mobile, AIRTEL and Glo have been operating poorly in the last few weeks. Speaking with THE NEWS DIGEST PRESS, Muhammad Adeyemi, a class representative of…
Nigerian University Lecture Room. Source: Technext.ng Mustapha Usman was in 200 level at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto State when he lost his father to a sudden accident in 2018. Since his father was his sole sponsor, he thought his death would be an end to his educational pursuit. His mother, a petty…
Amanatullah Ismail writes When Salama started menstruating, she enjoyed using the sanitary pad given to her by an organistion who had visited their school for a menstrual sensitisation. Unfortunately, after the pack given to her finished, her parents then introduced the usage of rag. “I was introduced to rags as my parents couldn’t afford…
BY Shereefdeen Ahmad Audu Abdullahi wore a weary face as he stood at the Bus Stop close to the Convocation Theater, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. One could tell that the 300-level student of Economics had a stressful lecture day, and when the sun set, his hope of enjoying the cool breezy night on his bed…
Hussain Wahab reports Abraham Abraham, a 400level chemistry student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto who was earlier exposed by the News Digest Press as the man behind the inscription of the strange red signs on campus. The signs bended cross and four arrowheads which were drawn on walls and boards around the campus, especially…
By Tijani Ibrahim ‘Suffering’ and ‘smiling’ are the best words to describe James Taiwo. Struggling in sweats, though, he is contented with the little he earns as a student barber in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. After the hectic goings and comings of the academic activities in the day, Taiwo still struggles to hustle at night…
By Bashir Turawa Purchasing UNIBEN sachet water (popularly known as ‘pure water’) in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto may be very risky as the so-called water has no reliable source, THE NEWS DIGEST gathered. Findings by this reporter reveals that the thriving UNIBEN ‘pure water’ in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto which carries the name and address…
By Muneer Yaqub Nigeria is a multi-cultural nation, with well over three hundred ethnic groups and two hundred languages. The quest for unification of these groups, despite their diversity, has made it adopt English Language as its lingua franca. And by implication, the language of instruction, and communication, in the Nigerian academia is…
UDUS ELECTION RESULTS By: Adebisi Isaac Result of A 40 Used 60, non-used 40 Total ballot is 100 *President* Mai Jamaa 12 Kalgoorlie 32 Waliyi: 12 Invalid : 4 VP II Haidara : 36 S. S kirfi 5 Alfarooq: 13 Invalid : 6 Fin. Sec. Sardauna: 24 G. Sule: 34 Invalid :2 Sales Director. Kankara…
DID YOU KNOW: CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE By: Muhydeen Yaqub Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, born 15 September 1977 is a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories, and nonfiction. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. She was described in the Times Literary Supplement as “the most prominent” of a “procession of…
