Defying the Norms: How Young Women are Redefining Leadership in Nigerian Universities
By Maryam Umar Women make up 42 per cent of the total of Nigeria’s two million university students. But step into a student union office, a faculty executive meeting, or…
Enduring in Silence: How Nigerian Female Students Pay an Academic Price for Menstrual Pain
By Maryam Umar “I’d rather suffer in silence than speak up and risk being embarrassed.” Fatimah Umar*, a 400-level student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), says it plainly, like…
FACT-CHECK: Did Sunday Igboho Secure the Release of Kidnap Victims in Igboho, Oyo State?
By Shero Abbas Claim A social media user claimed that Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has seured the release of students kidnapped in Oyo State. Verdict False. Available…
Orphaned But Not Broken: The Untold Story of Students Who Grief Followed Back to the Classroom
By Luqman Kamaldeen Oladayo Across Nigeria, thousands of university students resume lectures each year carrying not just foodstuffs and lecture notes, but grief. In these institutions, students are taught how…
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.…
Seven Injections, No Diagnosis: How Fear of Delay Pushes UDUS Students Into Unsafe Medical Care
By: Luqman Kamaldeen Oladayo “The doctor is not on seat.” Abdulfatai Hammed, a 200-level Law student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), had heard this before. The phrase, now disturbingly…
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…