Video of US soldiers capturing bandits in Sokoto, AI-generated
By Maryam Umar US troops training mission in Nigeria. Photo Source: Reuters Claim: An X user claims that US soldiers captured three bandits in Sokoto State, Nigeria. Verdict: False. DUBAWA’s…
Beyond the Glitch: UDUS Students Bemoan Persistent Portal Failures
By Luqman Kamaldeen Oladayo For Aishat Muhammad, a 300-level Law student at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), a simple notification brought two years of academic anxiety to a sudden halt…
Waiting for What’s Theirs: How NELFUND Refund Delays Left UDUS Students Stranded
By: Luqman Kamaldeen Oladayo Ikpechi Johnson, a final year student of Engineering at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), watched his NELFUND portal display a single word—“initializing” for five months, while…
Northern Students Are Skipping Holidays Inside the Psychological Toll of ‘Kidnapping for Ransom’ on a Generation of Student
By Shero Abbas “I was particularly worried about road safety and the risk of getting caught in volatile situations,” said Suleiman Zayan, a student of Federal University of Technology, Minna.…
How Fear of Delays at the School Clinic Pushes UDUS Students to Unsafe Medical Care
By Luqman Kamaldeen Oladayo Abdulfatai Hammed, a 200 level Law student at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS) felt worried about a statement he had heard before. The statement, is now…
CJID Equips UDUS Campus Journalists, Mass Communication Students with Journalism Skills
By Zainab Ismail Ajoke Being told by her brother about an incident of a ghost writer who wrote an article titled SAVE-UDUS in 2019 and shared by numerous students on…
UDUS Students Lament Hike in Sachet Water Prices, Call for Reform
By Shero Abbas For months, students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS) have been grappling with a steady and troubling rise in the price of sachet water, popularly known as…
Cracked Walls, Rising Rents: How UDUS Students Face Harsh Reality in Shama Hostel
By Shero Abbas For many students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), the pursuit of higher education is increasingly overshadowed by a pressing and deeply frustrating concern of accommodation. What…
ICIR Reporter Trains UDUS, Other Campus Journalists on AI Accountability Reporting
Luqman Kamaldeen Oladayo reports, The campus journalists from Usmanu Danfodiyo University and other tertiary institutions have been charged to go beyond simply understanding how AI works, and investigate how the…
Learning on Hold: How Government-Approved Data Tariff Increase Is Restricting Nigerian Students Access to Online Education
By Maryam Umar Ayomide The Nigerian economy is currently in a dilapidated state, the most recent official household survey data from Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics shows that 30.9 percent…