Editorial

The Columbia Journalism School is calling on qualified journalists to apply for its one year, full-time fellowship programme called: Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism.

Officials of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, have assured corps members posted to the state of adequate security as the orientation camp opens on Tuesday, three years after the programme was suspended in the state due to the Boko Haram insurgency.

The International Reporting Project, IRP, is calling for applications from professional journalists to report on global religion issues.

The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics has revealed that only 10.8 percent of Nigerian workers are captured under the contributory pension scheme while more than 89 percent of them are not registered.

Following the accidental bombing of an Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Rann community in Kala-Balge Local Government Area of Borno State, a total of 234 people who were killed in the incident have been buried.

Governor of Borno State and chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, Kashim Shettima, has said that Poverty remains the major reason for incessant violent crises and insecurity in the Northern region of Nigeria.