DONE AND DUSTED: TONY ELUMELU BRIDGE By : Muneer Yaqub It seems the mantra hasn’t changed. It has persisted, and has remained consistent in the last couple of weeks. The mantra of positive change, that which has sought to lend voice to the voiceless. The mantra of the physically challenged, our disabled colleagues on campus:…
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PRISONERS ON STRIKE By: Muneer Yaqub I never really got the wisdom entrenched in that Asa’s Song, “Jailer.” She’s one Nigerian singer whose discerning insight I pretty much adore. With her music, adorned by a beautiful voice, she addresses issues of social concern, much uncommon within the musical firmament. Studded in her music are riddles;…
SCHOOLING AND HUSTLING: INSIDE THE WORLD OF STUDENTS’ BARBER IN DANFODIYO VARSITY
By Tijani Ibrahim ‘Suffering’ and ‘smiling’ are the best words to describe James Taiwo. Struggling in sweats, though, he is contented with the little he earns as a student barber in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. After the hectic goings and comings of the academic activities in the day, Taiwo still struggles to hustle at night…
EXPOSED: HOW FRAUDULENT UNIBEN ‘PURE WATER’ FLOURISHES IN SOKOTO VARSITY
By Bashir Turawa Purchasing UNIBEN sachet water (popularly known as ‘pure water’) in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto may be very risky as the so-called water has no reliable source, THE NEWS DIGEST gathered. Findings by this reporter reveals that the thriving UNIBEN ‘pure water’ in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto which carries the name and address…
LANGUAGE BARRIER: Ordeal Of Non-Hausa-Speaking Students In Sokoto Varsity
By Muneer Yaqub Nigeria is a multi-cultural nation, with well over three hundred ethnic groups and two hundred languages. The quest for unification of these groups, despite their diversity, has made it adopt English Language as its lingua franca. And by implication, the language of instruction, and communication, in the Nigerian academia is…
RAMADAN CHRONICLES: HOW STUDENTS’ UNION, ICE BLOCK DEALERS EXPLOIT STUDENTS IN SOKOTO VARSITY
By Taoheed Adegbite On Thursday, 18th May which marked the second day of the 2018 Ramadan period, the sun was severely scorching in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, a homogeneous learning community situated in Dundaye, Sokoto state. Qomariyah, a 200 level student from the Department of Modern European Languages and Linguistics had an unwholesome day, after a…
THE ‘CONCERNED DANFODITES’
By:Muneer Yaqub Politics on UDUS campus is getting interesting these days. The executive arm serving punishments; the legislative arm courting attentions. Name-callings everywhere. Controversies here and there. And the Press, in the middle of it all. Just to be sure, should you see what I see, you won’t but be dazed. It’s an art gallery….
PHOTOS: TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AS CAR DRIVER LOSES CONTROL
By Ibrahim Adeyemi A car with the number plate of SAA224AA hit a tree at the mini market of smanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto as the driver of the car suddenly lost control while driving. The unnamed driver was said to have been subconscious while driving such that it found its way to the main entrance…
……POINT OF ORDER, ET CETERA, ET CETERA (Of Legislators and Executors of Our Dear School)
By Ibrahim Adeyemi As if we’ve not attended one before, everything at the sitting was strange in range, no orderliness in the hearts of those that man the earth of our dear university. No legislation on the side of our legislators; no execution on the other side of the executives. Who is fooling whom? The…
LETTER TO HON. ISMAIL GAMBO
By Bashir Turawa Dear Honourable, I hope this meets you well. I was one of the electoral officers at your polling unit in the last students’ Union election in which you were elected as one of the members representing the Faculty of Science at the Students’ Representatives’ Assembly. With the number of votes cast by…