By Habeeb Olokooba In recent times, a lot of happenings have been said about how evil and toxic a place the music industry can be, how devilish record label owners and the lengths they go in frustrating and killing the talents of the young, gullible people they sign. Amidst this crunch, fast rising Sulaiman Shekoni…
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 Habeeb Olokooba Concealed or obvious, there is a price for everything. But who would have conceived that I would procure dearly for choosing Jubril Aminu hostel? Here is a bitter account of how I lost almost everything I had to daylight burglars. Sequel to all the ‘shege’ last semester, I went to the hostel…
By Habeeb Olokooba It is very easy to kill a man, by merely saying he did what he did not do. It is even funny, the upsurge of the human’s hypocrisy when negative things happen to people they don’t like or really agree with. I guess that’s just our nature as human beings. Beyond doubt,…
Abdulrazaq Kamaldeen reports Road to Bakassi hostel at night The residents of Bakassi hostel, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto have been grappling with the distressing absence of functional street lights along the road stretching from the Faculty of Law to the Faculty of Agriculture. The persistent darkness in this area has left people in fear,…
By Alqasim Gbemisola 1 A scholar once said that a woman is the full circle, within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. History has it that women are the strongest creatures on Earth. Although men rule the land, women give life to them and are always stronger than them. Women across different…
Abdulrasaq Kamaldeen reports The Nigeria Association of Muslim Law Students (NAMLAS), Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto has set to participate in the 18th national conference for muslim law students. The event, in collaboration with the National headquarter of the association, will be held for four days, starting from Wednesday, 25th to Saturday, 28th, October at Minna,…
Abdulganiyu Azeez reports The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto chapter has set to organize an Inter-Faculty Grand Musabaqa. According to a flier released by the organization, the event will commence from Friday,13th to Sunday, 15th of October, 2023 at ETF 3 Hall by 9am-12pm, 2pm-4pm, and 8pm-11pm respectively. The competition will…
By Mutalib Jibril Studying medicine can be very challenging anywhere in the world due to the nature of the field. However, it is more challenging studying medicine in Nigeria. Should we talk about the limited number of slots to a large number of applicants that are accepted into medical school? Or is it the rigorous…
By Abdulrasaq Kamaldeen In 2016, Sambo Yahaya secured admission in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS) to study Radiography (B.Rad). From the onset, Yahaya wanted to study computer science. He had registered for the 2016 Unitary Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and did a one-year matriculation program before he secured admission. Yahaya, a native of Tambuwal in…
