Abdulrasaq Kamaldeen reports Mallam AhmadIsah Chafe, the Director of the Management and Information System (MIS), Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, has urged students to prioritize this last chance for registration as failure to do so will lead to deferment of session. It can be recalled that Mallam Ahmad Isah Chafe made it known on Sunday, 2nd…
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: Habeeb Olokooba Hamza Diyaulhaq Imogbemi Tiamiyu Let’s talk about the Faculty of Law election, 2023. Earlier on Wednesday, Hamza Diyaulhaq Barade, one of the presidential candidates for the LAWSAN election 2023, was seen campaigning for the UG2 law students. He, in his words, stressed, by assuring that the learning wigs as to his plan…
By Rasheedat Abidiesin It was a Thursday Morning in September, 2025. The street of Dandima wore the busy look it’s known for on every business day. The street, being the main road that leads to the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, had cars heading to and from the UDUS main campus. The horn of the cars…
Ramadan is meant to be a period of peace, reflection, and spiritual devotion. However, at UDUS, this year’s Ramadan began under a cloud of frustration. Instead of quiet nights of study and worship, students on campus have been grappling with an unexpected and prolonged power outage that began on 15th of February 2026, a day…
By Mohammad Musa The name hydrogen was coined by Antoine Lavoisier. Hydrogen was discovered by Henry Cavendish in 1766 by the action of dilute H2O4 on iron. It was named inflammable air.Hydrogen occurs in free as well as in combined state. Hydrogen has one electron in its outermost shell, it can lose the valence electron…
Abdulganiyu Azeez reports The former Managing Editor of The News Digest Press and 400-level law student at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Hussain Wahab has been appointed as the president of the National Association of Campus Journalists, UDUS chapter. This was announced at the 2023 NACJ Annual Symposium held at the IBB center, main campus 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 Habeeb Olokooba God forbid a time when all that glitters become gold. Before you learn from my story, I believe I need you to know what I mean by 4-4-2. Well, it simply means to be deceived, or simply being manipulated with lies, especially from a guy to a girl. To kick off, I…
Established in 1995, Digest Press, formally known as The News Digest Press, is a campus press outlet based at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. It covers both issues on the campus and beyond. The board has been known for its consistency and true practice of journalism. On campus, Digest has won the Press Board of the…
