The pen is mightier than the gun
By Shuaibu Sharifat It is a familiar wait for Adeshina Saheedat Adeola most mornings: standing at the bus stop, watching the Amana Ride bus fill, one passenger at a time,…
By Maryam Umar The CBT centre at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS) was crowded and humid when Fatimah Umar(Pseudonym), a 400 level student of the university arrived for her examination.…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
By Maryam Umar Ayomide When Rufai Halima, a first-year nursing student at the University of Maiduguri (Unimaid), returned from the lecture hall exhausted as usual, she found that her food…
By Issa Hamed Alhaji At exactly 8 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, while her classmates hurried into a lecture hall for a Mass Communication course, Adamu Nana sat behind the…
By: Abdulrasheed Aishah When the Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) period approached, many students heaved a sigh of relief, not because they were eager to leave the classroom, but…