BY AMANATULLAH ISMAIL Usmanu danfodiyo University Sokoto with its gargantuan buildings has failed in the aspect of maintaining proper and hygienic toilets for its students. For one to make use of these toilets, unwilling ordeal must be overcome. In a nutshell, the toilets in the school are too dirty that it makes stomachs vomit and…
BY HUSSAIN WAHAB The News Digest Press, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, has once again won the best press board making it three times on a row. Not only that, four of her members won awards in different categories in the just concluded National Association Of Campus Journalists Symposium. However, it is not surprising because to…
BY HUSSAIN WAHAB With utmost excitement running on my mind, I will like to congratulate the newly admitted students, and pre-emptively welcome you to the most peaceful and stringent university in Nigeria. I don’t need to explain the ‘toughness’. They say seeing is believing. With time you will understand it better. I know the most…
BY HUSSAIN WAHAB Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS) is a public research institution located in the city of the caliphate in Sokoto State. It is one of the twelve universities founded in Nigeria by General Yakubu Gowon in 1975. There are many blessings associated with UDUS. It is the alma mater of prominent Nigerians: two…
Cash-For-Comfort (1): ‘Executive DV’ and The Untold Hostel Barters in UDUS Haminah has spent three years on campus as a student. And has applied for bedspace in the University hostels in all these years, but was only lucky during her first year. A welcoming gesture that made her ‘Jambito’ (a popular lingo for freshers on…
Student Leader Plays ‘Bet9ja’ With Union’s Fund in Danfodiyo VarsityBy: Bashir Turawa The president of the Modern European Languages and Linguistics Students’ Association (MELLSA) in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Akindele Abdulqoyyum has been accused of mismanaging the association’s funds. Abdulqoyyum, a final year student of English Language has allegedly invested the union’s fund in playing…
ERRAND-OF-NO-RETURN: Curbing Duping, Cheating, ‘Riding’ In Danfodiyo Varsity Hostels By: Taoheed A. Adegbite From her restless ankles, forced by every features of her body to assuage from running, resulted to jumping. No doubt, the day had been good to her. Beneath her toes were aged colour-riot slippers, with which she trailed the path of a…
By Abdullah Tijani “Goooooooooooooooooal,” the land rumbled as the sound of the students watching Nigeria VS Algeria semi-final AFCON reverberated the air. It was at night, everywhere was moony dark. The light from the moon and the rays of the projector that beamed from the projecting football-show to the wall of J Block were the…
By Abdullah Tijani Indecency, as the term implies is often alienated to female, and the victims thereon are often ladies. Whereas, indecency in true sense is never gender-based talk neither is it gender-biased. Though, indecent dressing, as it is known to be in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, there is much tendency to believe the victims should…
By Abdullah Tijani At early day of May, Dauda, a student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University and resident of Jubril Aminu Hostel (Block A) could not withstand the hell in his hostel — his room lacks enough ventilation. He laid his bed outside and slept while he wiped his perspiration with his underwear. He unclothed his…
