GAMJI PRESS, UDUS

Abdulrasheed Akere   Biliaminu Manne reports,  Abdulkareem Abdulrasheed Akere an indigenous of Ilorin (Emirate), Kwara State, a Biology and Education student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), emerged as the 1st runner-up of the 2023 National Emirate Essay Competition, organized by Ilorin Emirate Students' Union_ National Headquarter in honor of Hon. Yakubu Babatunde Prudent. The essay competition, which was titled "CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ILORIN EMIRATE: CAUSES AND WAY FORWARD" and stated to declare three winners with a given cash price as "WINNER N50,000, 1st RUNNER UP N30,000, and 2nd RUNNER UP N20,000," Abdulrasheed Akere emerged as the first runner-up of the 2023 national emirate essay competition. Mr. Akere received an acknowledgment email of emerging as the first runner-up on Tuesday, 3rd October 2023, and Akere was invited to the Secretariat IESU, Pakata Roundabout, Ilorin, Kwara State. Email   The email reads in parts; "Dear Abdulrasheed...

Two phase climate   Attempts to navigate alternative means of fossil fuel to reduce climate crisis have increasingly become the topic of discussion and area of investigation in every nook and cranny of the world. However, students' efforts especially on campus always come with drawbacks due to increasing cost of living, skyrocketing costs of commodities and other unruly factors. Using Usmanu Danfodiyo University as a case study, students face challenges of switching to other alternative fuels such as electric cookers, and cooking gas, due to the restrictions of the usage in the University halls of residence. Furthermore, due to the increasing price of kerosene, many of the students leverage burning charcoal which is the next most affordable fuel majority of the average students can afford after kerosene. Consequentially, both kerosene and charcoal contribute significantly to climate crisis which is one of the hardest global challenges we face today. Kerosene as a fossil fuel, relea...