My Experience In UDUS,The Most Peaceful University In Nigeria
It is neither an exaggeration nor an understatement that USMANU DANFODIYO UNIVERSITY is the most peaceful university In the sub-Saharan Africa, this prestigious university was established in the year 1975, which means it is 43years old.
My first unforgettable experience was coming from my home town Ilorin, a journey of about 600km which should be covered in a maximum of 7 hours but took us 17hours to reach Sokoto, the seat of caliphate. The journey was endless to the extent that I started thinking may be we were traveling to heaven.
The road is also terrible, most especially the Niger-Kebbi road, anyone who only know Nigeria in TV will never believe we were traveling to another place in the same Nigeria. But God has saved us from the misfortunes of the bad road.
We arrived Sokoto during the harmattan season when everything would be be cold. I used to wear 3 clothes including sweater, socks, hand gloves but can't explain how I catched cold. The worst is, when the sun rise you will feel as if you're close to hell.
On my first day, when I was going for my letter of confirmation of admission, I saw a lady decently dressed in native attire and I asked her to direct me to the venue but unfortunately she misdirected me to hostels from A-classes.
It is in UDUS that you will receive lectures from 8am to 6pm and you'll be left with no option than to spend the first half if not full night in class battling with mosquitoes trying to assimilate what was thought in class.
The first day I attempted to go for night reading with my roommates is the first day I felt the dawn breeze just like the dusk rays. To my surprise all the classes we intended to use were full of students reading as if we were in the time of examination that's when I understand our motto which enjoins us to read.
Coping with the harsh weather of the new environment, language and culture is Another thing that I'm still battling with, some things that are normal in my locality are abnormal in the seat of caliphate.
Though I'm not a biological science student, In my hometown flies live in toilets and odor environments but to my surprise, the early morning flies here, the Afternoon flies and the evening flies are just like part-time students.
From my stay in UDUS, I discovered that there are different classes of students coming to night classes; the serious students that come to read, the unserious that come to play games and disturb others and the less-serious that come to read with ladies.
To my surprise, there are certain set of people that only come to steal.
Also, in the school we live with some local children called Yaro boys and yarinya girls most of them are not going to school, they sale 'piyo water', meaning called water, Awara(cheese), jeda(peanut), labido(dates) and some other things. Some of them beg while some help students in domestic chores to get money. Though we have some 'advanced Yaro boys' that often attack students with axe in the night to collect phones and valuables.
It is in our prestigious university that I really saw a Vice Chancellor who
engages students in decision making and always implement the decision of the students, in the beginning I thought his name is Baba Mai calendar as they fondly say until when I got to understand that he manages calendar to suit students schedule.
In my first year in UDUS, I learnt to be punctual, humble and dress decently according to the unwritten laws of Hausa land.
May God guide and bless our stay in UDUS with our desired class of degree.
ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD IS A 200LEVEL STUDENT OF
FACULTY OF LAW
It is neither an exaggeration nor an understatement that USMANU DANFODIYO UNIVERSITY is the most peaceful university In the sub-Saharan Africa, this prestigious university was established in the year 1975, which means it is 43years old.
My first unforgettable experience was coming from my home town Ilorin, a journey of about 600km which should be covered in a maximum of 7 hours but took us 17hours to reach Sokoto, the seat of caliphate. The journey was endless to the extent that I started thinking may be we were traveling to heaven.
The road is also terrible, most especially the Niger-Kebbi road, anyone who only know Nigeria in TV will never believe we were traveling to another place in the same Nigeria. But God has saved us from the misfortunes of the bad road.
We arrived Sokoto during the harmattan season when everything would be be cold. I used to wear 3 clothes including sweater, socks, hand gloves but can't explain how I catched cold. The worst is, when the sun rise you will feel as if you're close to hell.
On my first day, when I was going for my letter of confirmation of admission, I saw a lady decently dressed in native attire and I asked her to direct me to the venue but unfortunately she misdirected me to hostels from A-classes.
It is in UDUS that you will receive lectures from 8am to 6pm and you'll be left with no option than to spend the first half if not full night in class battling with mosquitoes trying to assimilate what was thought in class.
The first day I attempted to go for night reading with my roommates is the first day I felt the dawn breeze just like the dusk rays. To my surprise all the classes we intended to use were full of students reading as if we were in the time of examination that's when I understand our motto which enjoins us to read.
Coping with the harsh weather of the new environment, language and culture is Another thing that I'm still battling with, some things that are normal in my locality are abnormal in the seat of caliphate.
Though I'm not a biological science student, In my hometown flies live in toilets and odor environments but to my surprise, the early morning flies here, the Afternoon flies and the evening flies are just like part-time students.
From my stay in UDUS, I discovered that there are different classes of students coming to night classes; the serious students that come to read, the unserious that come to play games and disturb others and the less-serious that come to read with ladies.
To my surprise, there are certain set of people that only come to steal.
Also, in the school we live with some local children called Yaro boys and yarinya girls most of them are not going to school, they sale 'piyo water', meaning called water, Awara(cheese), jeda(peanut), labido(dates) and some other things. Some of them beg while some help students in domestic chores to get money. Though we have some 'advanced Yaro boys' that often attack students with axe in the night to collect phones and valuables.
It is in our prestigious university that I really saw a Vice Chancellor who
engages students in decision making and always implement the decision of the students, in the beginning I thought his name is Baba Mai calendar as they fondly say until when I got to understand that he manages calendar to suit students schedule.
In my first year in UDUS, I learnt to be punctual, humble and dress decently according to the unwritten laws of Hausa land.
May God guide and bless our stay in UDUS with our desired class of degree.
ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD IS A 200LEVEL STUDENT OF
FACULTY OF LAW
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