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Editorial: Electoral Violence: The Role of Youths and Journalists in Ensuring A Smooth Election Process

  In Nigeria, election periods have become a market for thugs to wield their trade for the highest bidders. With the 2023 general election making a headway, desperate politicians would do everything possible to catapult themselves into power. Thereby fuelling the dastardly act of electoral violence. The merchants of the violence serve as an incubus…

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Our Journalism So Far

  By Abdullah Tijani, The Editor-in-chief of The News Digest Press, 2020/2021 Academic Session   Just like other years before it, the era of the Abdullah-Tijani-led administration is coming to an end. The sun rotating the earth has returned to its starting point. Today, the sun will set and we will witness the beginning of…

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REVIEW… The Drama, History, High Tension that Made Qatar 2022 a Different World Cup

By Shereefdeen Ahmad After four years of anticipation, the biggest football  tournament on the planet, Federation of International Football Association(FIFA)  World Cup bursted into life on 20th November 2022, with 32 countries from different continents in hunt for global glory in the Middle East desert country, Qatar. Football superstars  ready themselves for the battle of…

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Displaced, Depressed and Distracted: The Travails of Benjee Fire Victims

By Shereefdeen Ahmad  The usual scorching sun in the Seat of Caliphate, Sokoto shined up when Monshur Musa went for Jumu’at_ an obligatory congregational prayer observed by Muslims every Friday. Ecstatic and delirious, Musa stayed behind to take pictures with his friends in the Mosque premises. While snapping, one of his friends  received a phone…

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Three Digest Reporters, Three Other UDUS Journalists Win Campus Reporter Awards

  Shereefdeen Ahmad reports  Three journalists of the News Digest Press, Abdulwasiu Olookoba, a 400-level law student, Abdulwaheed Sofiullah, a 400-level student of English Education and Abdulwasiu Mujeeb, a graduate of law at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto have won the  Next-Gen Campus Reporter Awards.   Recall that the News Digest Press reported how the student-journalists…

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