Isiaq Ibrahim reports The Centre for Journalists Innovation and Development (CJID) has shortlisted three Digest reporters and four other students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto for the 2023 UDEME U-Monitors cohort. UDEME is an accountability project established by the Centre of Journalists and Innovation Development (CJID) to monitor, track down a source, report on public…
By: Alabi Maryam “I linked my National Identity Number (NIN) with my over 5-year MTN SIM card, but yet it was barred,” Muhammad Hawua, a 500-level student of Agriculture, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), lamented over her telephone line barred by MTN through Nigerian Telecommunication Companies. Unlike many other 40 million users whose SIM cards…
By Abdulrasaq Kamaldeen It was Saturday, 26th August. Around 3:50 pm, everywhere was calm, the atmosphere resplendent like a new moon that appeared in the daylight. Babaita Muhammad Bello, a 100-level student of Physics and resident of Block D (Room 4) of the Jubril Aminu hostel prepared to meet his friends at Block C to…
By Abdulrasaq kamaldeen Recently, beautiful pictures of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto’s campus have kept surfacing on the spaces of social media, particularly Facebook. The pictures, always with inscription ‘REDMI NOTE 11 l SHOT BY MAYOR,’ are the product of Ibrahim Dagunduro Abdulsomad, a 200-level student of Computer Science and an indigene of Kwara State. Popularly…
By Hussain Wahab A Welcome Message for the Newly Admitted Students You see, I’m not interested in singing the sweet song of the role of journalists on campus of this kind. Neither will I choose today to discuss the hike in tuition and acceptance fees. In fact I will not say whether or not the…
By Habeeb Olokooba In life, everyone has that act they perpetrated and regretted after. It suffices to say that everyone has compunction; a past that pricks one’s conscience, causing remorsefulness. While some will regret at the instance of the act, forget and move on; it will rue some till the very end of their lives….
Hi friends, this is my story and I would be going by the name Cleopatra because I am strong and I am a Queen for going through such a traumatizing experience and reliving it just to tell my story. I want to create awareness and change. I am not embarrassed about it because it…
By: Habeeb Olokooba In With love in my heart, I dare not defy the law. Whether in gain or loss, let equilibrium be restored. Without prejudice to laid protocols and commanding words being spoken, I am once again out to pen destiny. Indeed, I shaped destiny, but many desire more than just that. As a…
By Saifnasr Bello As the sun rises and sets over Gidanyaro, a small village that helps define the landmass of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. Yet, as the sun rotates the Earth, for the children of this village, the clock seems to have stopped. Their dreams, trapped within the ruins of a forgotten school, and…
By Abdulkadir Sofiullahi A journey to success is not just a one kind journey you can decide to journey alone for the golden rule is to familiarize yourself with shooters, those who have once walked through the same path you have chosen, to make your journey easy. Human Beings will relate with one another, in…
