By Muheeb Mashood Since the resumption of the second semester, student occupants at Jubril Aminu hostel in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, have been clamoring over intermittent water supply, The News Digest Press can report. It was in the early hours on Sunday, 24th September. The sun smiled brightly but the atmosphere depicted a nightmare as…
By Muheeb Mashood It was early hours of Tuesday. With anticipation, I refused to sleep after the Subr (dawn) prayer in a bid to prepare myself for the 8 o’clock lecture before I set out with other clinicians for the most awaited ‘Law Street Campaign.’ The program was co-organise by Caliphate Law Clinic, Usmanu Danfodiyo…
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…
By Shereefdeen Ahmad The weather was frosty when Oladosu Nafiysah, a 200-level student of Agricultural Science arrived in Sokoto by 1:00am. Exhausted and starving after the 14-hours journey from Ilorin, Kwara State, she hoped to get a good rest in her hostel at Shama. But little did she know that reaching her apartment would be…
By Sulaiman Aisha This is a reflection on the time when I was seeking admission into a tertiary institution. My friends and I sat for the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on the 9th of March, 2020. Additionally, we took our West African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO) exams. Weeks later,…
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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….
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 Yisau Babatunde When Victor James Osimhen steps onto the pitch at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in Naples, tens of thousands chant his name with joy and admiration. To many Italians, he is the warrior who ended Napoli’s 33-year of deadlock waiting for Serie A title. However, to millions of Nigerians, he is much more…
Abdulganiyu Azeez reports The Law Students Society (LSS) Judiciary of Faculty of law in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, has called the newly admitted students of the faculty to the Caliphate bar. The program, coupled with orientation ceremony conducted in collaboration with the Caliphate Law Clinic, National Association of Muslim Law Students(NAMLAS) and the Executive arm…
