Nigeria, June 23 -- Muheeb Moshood, a student journalist at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, UDUS, never imagined that reporting about students' struggles at the university clinic would spark a chain of reaction.

But that is exactly what happened after he published an opinion article calling attention to a troubling situation on campus: students diagnosed at the university clinic are hardly provided medication.

"I wrote the piece because I had seen it happen to several students, including myself. You go there sick, they diagnose you but they don't give you any drugs," Mr Moshood told this reporter.

So he wrote an article to bring the management's attention to the struggles students face. But not long after the article was published,...