LANGUAGE ACQUISITION : A DOUBLE HONOUR IN UDUS BY : Bamidele Lukman Nigeria is known to be diverse in nature. A country of numbers of tribes and languages living together despite cultures differ, betoken their ways of life ; a great identity which differentiate an ethnic group from other. Before I proceed, it is worthwhile…
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Kwara State Government: Excitement as Indigenes Anticipate Fuel Subsidy Removal Palliative
Yasir Aladodo reports In order to mitigate the hardship that the subsidy removal might have caused Kwarans, the Kwara State Government has made a scheme which includes registration, verification as well as distribution of subsidy’s palliative worth of 10,000 naira to Kwara State students across the Country. It can be recalled that on Monday 29…
Cash-For-Comfort (1): ‘Executive DV’ and The Untold Hostel Barters in UDUS
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…
HOW I INTEND TO SERVE “DANFODITES”_James Gana Sule aka G. Sule
HOW I INTEND TO SERVE “DANFODITES”_James Gana Sule aka G. Sule My name is James Gana Sule aka G. Sule. I am a 300 level student from the Faculty of Science, Department of Biological sciences, Zoology unit to be precised. It is my belief that the best way to serve the society or community is…
The Problem with Nigeria is You and Me
By Amanatullah Yusuf A lot of times, we have all insulted Nigerian politicians. Accusing them of being corrupt and laundering the countrys’ funds. We have lamented and cursed, groaning in the agony of the pain caused us. There’s anger and there is pain. Poverty has become more widespread and the government is all we blame….
‘Present Student’s Union is Campaigning For My Opponent’ – Barade, SU Presidential Aspirant
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…
The Best Time for C.A Tests
By Ismail Amanatullah I remembered drinking pure water that day. The real big boys drink, a period where most students have limited cash on them, it shows who the real big boys are because we’d be the only ones to afford it by then. The rest could rush to the ever ‘steady…
MIND YOUR GRAMMAR
Mind Your Grammar is a column with Olayiwola Ridwan Adetunji, a 300-level Law student and General Secretary of the News Digest Press. The column exposes proper grammatical usages and corrections to some common mistakes, and by extension common mistakes associated with some idiomatic expressions. By following the series of the column, you can become well…
Malt and Milk Does Not Boost Blood Production
By Abdulrasaq Olayinka There’s a popular idea held by the majority of Nigerians that mixing a malt and a milk boosts production in the human body system. In fact, our local acclaimed nurses go a long way of adding them on the list of medicines needed to boost blood production, when a patient is…
Reporter’s Diary: How Hunger Nearly Killed Me Last Night
By: Abdulkadir Sofiullahi On a frigid winter’s night at Jibril Aminu Hostel, I shivered as the cold wind seeped through window cracks. The thin walls offered little protection from the bitter chill. The heater wheezed, but its feeble warmth did little to dispel the icy air. I pulled my blanket tighter, longing for a warm…