GAMJI PRESS, UDUS

By Justice Omodiagbe The almighty Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria just graciously approved the extension of the deadline for the closure of registration by two weeks. "What an understanding management," you may mutter. Don't be too quick to extol them; at face value, it seems so but in reality, what they did is not different from what our unscrupulous politicians do and we revile them when they do. “How can you berate a management who listened to the pleas of her students and made efforts to assist them?” You ask almost angrily. Why shouldn't I? When, like our politicians, they create a problem, make the masses suffer, the masses cry out, they proffer solution, make it seems they did it in the best interest of the public and we cheer them on only to repeat the vicious circle later on - a problem they created that was unnecessary in the first place just to keep us at their mercy. Like the biblical Apostle Paul reprimanded the church in Galatians, "Oh foolish Galat...

By Ghazali Ibrahim Fire is one of the most destructive elements which causes loss of lives and properties. Within a twinkle of an eye, it can turn a mighty building to ashes, luxury mansions into dust, and palace to embers. Among the four alchemists, fire is the strongest of all due to its rapid annihilable nature. The phenomenon can never be joked with, talk less of a trick. Its effect endangers human assets and renders them invaluable.  The terrible incident of November 7th is still fresh in the memory of many Danfodites, especially the Emirates, whose Union's shop was burnt down. The unexpected outbreak razed about three shops at the hostel mini-mart, where valuable properties were destroyed. Recall that during the 2019/2020 academic session same incident occurred at Bakassi and DV hostel, where students properties were maimed. As this horrible incident gives persisting itself on the soil of UDUS, the need for a fire service metro station within the University environment is ver...

By Shafi Bolakale Perhaps, no time in history has her hallowed institutions been this degraded. Corruption has been perceived as being the Nigerian Judiciary. The good, intellectual and well versed judicial officers of impeccable character and integrity are nowhere to be found. The growing problem of conflicting judgments has driven away from the uprightness and integrity that ought to reflect in this institution. Of all this rascality, the government’s strong-arm tactics have influenced its performance as a fearless and impartial arbiter. The last hope of the common man has been humiliated by the state authoritarianism, which has been abruptly stripped of his immunity without recourse to the provisions of the law, where will the common man run to? The state machinery has fallen to the proletarian times of outright disregard and disobedience of subsisting court orders and falling the standard of the rule of law. The enthronement of anarchy in disregard to the decisions of the court has...

Abdulhakami Junaidu reports,  Ayima Arafat Abdullahi a 300 Level radiography student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto has on Monday 20th December, presented a cut of pen portrait of the vice chancellor of the university to him at the vice Chancellor's office, Ahmadu Bello House. The presentation was made by Ayima and his friends immediately after the Matriculation Ceremony held on Monday. In an interview with GAMJI PRESS Arafat disclosed the rationale behind the pen portrait of the vice chancellor of the University. In his wordings: "I presented the gift to a man of honor and a reputable character, someone who deserves my honor. To show my appreciation and gratitude for all he has been doing towards the students and the giant development of the University community." The Vice Chancellor, Prof Lawal Bilbis in his remarks expressed his gratitude to the student for the honor. The  Dean Student Affairs, Dean of Faculties, Provosts, Registrar and Deputy Vice chancellors ...

Ghazali Ibrahim reports, Bashir Buniyamin Balogun, a 500 level student of Agriculture who is also the Editor in chief of the Gamji pressboard has emerged as the overall best speaker at the Caliphate Debate version 2.0. The caliphate debate is a British like parliamentary debate of world championship standards. The program comprises 8 teams with two participants supporting or opposing the motion given to them. The program went through three stages and which ended today at the international conference centre Sokoto.  Binyamin was among the 16 participants who were present at the 2021 edition of the competition.  In an interview with Gamji press, Buniyamin expresses his gratitude towards the victory.  In his word, "I feel is the best speaker, I feel great. I have seen many and had been shown love throughout my training session up to the time we went for the competition. I had a very rough time this year and winning this gives me hope of what I lost during the year. I prepare...

  Abdulhakami Junaidu reports,  Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto has ranked the University with the highest number of professors in Nigeria by the National University Commission (NUC). The information was contained in data published on the NUC official website and analyzed by PUNCH Newspaper on Wednesday.  According to the commission, the ranking was based on the quality of academic staff in the University. "This is an assessment of the quality of academic staff in the university. The full professorial category is selected as it is the zenith of academic staff quality in university." Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto was ranked first with 36.44% followed by Obafemi Awolowo with 35.80%. While on the other hand, the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, University of Agriculture, Makurdi had the lowest percentage of professors in the Federal Universities in the country.

  Abdulhakami Junaidu reports,  In a press release from the office of the special adviser media and publicity to the Sokoto state governor, Mal. Muhammad Bello dated 19th January 2022, the Sokoto State governor, Rt. Honourable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has approved the appointment of three UDUS lecturers, Prof. Malami Umar Tambuwal as the pioneer vice-chancellor of the newly established Shehu Shagari University of education, Sokoto, Prof. Aminu Muhammad Mode as deputy vice-chancellor academic and Prof. Nasiru Mukhtar as deputy vice-chancellor administration. The new university, Shehu Shagari University of Education (SSUE) was the former Shehu Shagari College of Education upgraded to the university of education. This university is the first of its kind here to be produced for education and education-related courses. The pioneer vice-chancellor, professor Malami Umar Tambuwal is an educationist of repute who was the registrar of the former Shehu Shagari college of education upgraded...

  By Ameenarh Abdulfattah A stony heart is an insensitive one, with a ruthless, merciless soul, lacks empathy and sympathy. A heart that can destroy, dump, raze and rub out a living organism in an inept and graceless way is nothing but a callous heart. Children are gifts, an amazing blessing from God. Every single day we may find ourselves doing a lot for our kids, loving and caring for them, nurturing, teaching, training, helping, leading, equipping, encouraging, protecting, and so much more. Marriage is done for several reasons but one of the most important ones is to get offspring that will succeed one after death. Many have spent colossal resources, time, money and efforts, but yet no positive outcome. Couples have lost happiness in their relationship, due to the inability to get offspring after several years of marriage, the trials and downfall of the tribulation faced in our world today are a result of past actions. How will one explain, finding a fetus dumped in a University...

By: Omodiagbe Justice I  know this is not a popular opinion among students. Which student would want an industrial action? I understand your apprehension. The strike action is getting incessant. It is barely a year since the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called off her industrial action after a protracted ten months strike and the warning bells are sounding again. The debate on who the greatest striker of all time has been on for a while now between Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. However, there is no doubt in the minds of Nigerian students that ASUU strikes better than both of them. Punch newspaper on 11 December 2020 reported that ASUU has spent 1,500 days (about 4 years) on strike action since Nigeria returned to Democracy. The statistics are staggering! The last strike action barely a year ago crippled the educational sector, shutting our Ivory Towers for about 10 months amid a pandemic when groundbreaking research was needed to find a headway. A lot of dest...