 Thanks for staying with us. Representatives from United Nations have met with stakeholders of different sectors in Nigeria. They met to chat ways of helping countries like Nigeria, address national priorities towards meeting sustainable development goals, SDGs. The SDGs were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action and to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The fifth United Nations Sustainable Development Corporation framework, UNSCDF, is for the period of 2023 to 2027. The now-recrecent United Nations Sustainable and Development Corporation framework for 2023 to 2027 is the fifth framework of the union. The objective and expectation of this meeting were to address core programming principles of the five-piece 2030 agenda. There are people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships. The framework will ensure that no one is left behind. The focus of the cooperation framework is to be able to come up with a plan for the time horizon that was mentioned before that will address the development, humanitarian, and peace needs of Nigeria. So we already have a draft theory of change that we have done within our cycle in the UN. And we are taking this theory of change across the six different zones of Nigeria to strengthen the relationship and partnership of the United Nations, UN agencies, and the different stakeholders involved in sustainable development of the country. A senior lecturer in the University of Abaddon, Professor Lanry Olanio, in his presentation explained what is in the cooperation framework. It's a commitment of the UN system to the people of Nigeria, particularly the most marginalized and vulnerable. And it is available for supporting economic transformation, as well as supporting peaceful societies through sustainable development strategies, specific to diverse, complete contexts. Participants spoke on how important the UN and the federal government collaboration is. What we can do at the UN to bring people around the table to leverage those capacities to help Nigeria achieve the goals that it set out for itself over this next period, you know, the different national and sectorial development plans that have been put in place, which also sit under a larger international framework. We're looking at all this new partnership, the continuous partnership will help to improve the lives of women and girls, even everyone in the Nigerian economy, because we know that without the support of these international agencies, to some extent, we are actually lagging behind. We are talking about zero tolerance to any form of abuse, we are not yet there. The UN SDCF 2023-2027 is expected to reflect Nigeria's economic, social and environmental conditions. It will provide a strategic framework to address the nation's developmental and humanitarian challenges. Moving on, we will transport workers' union and now to pay 800 nair as a consolidated levy to the Lagos state government. The agreement between the state and the transport union is a move to harmonize deals collected by the government from commercial motorists at parks and garages across the state. This is according to the Commissioner for Finance, Rabiu Oluwo, Love Kukuo Yedokun, has details in this report. The official launch of the consolidated informal transport sector levy has no doubt opened a new visa in the transportation business in Lagos state. Every commercial driver in the state will now pay 800 nair to be shared among government agencies and local governments. The Commissioner for Finance, Rabiu Oluwo says the harmonized levy will help reduce multiple taxes, deals and levies to all agents of state. It's to organize the collection process, to make it more structured so that those collecting deals will not be running after vehicles because I cannot do not run after me, MBA do not run after lawyers. So we have come together to say that we want to put in a structure of the collection process so that we can improve the look and feel of our transport sector. Want to reduce the multiplicity of taxes and people have complained a lot, you know, we pay parking fees, we pay motor fees, we pay this and all sort of taxes, deals and levies either due to government or association. This consolidated informal transport sector levy would consolidate all taxes, all deals, all levies due to government and association bodies. In addition to this, we have seen some people, they are not local government staff, they are not national agents, they are not road, they are called or no agents, you see them flagging their stick, they collect the money, all receipts. So if anybody say I pay 3,000, I pay 3,000, they might not be lying. We have not sat down, how do we do? And I say okay, if you are taking off from Badaigri, just collect this 800 naira. If you like, go to Ikorodu 20 times, once you flash that drone never, nobody in Ikorodu will have to pay another government levy again. The chairman of the state's chapter of road transport workers, Musulu Akinsoya, popularly known as MC Oluwomo, seems to disagree with the arrangement. The process is built to take effect in February 2020. From Lagos, Labikuku Uye Dukum reporting for Plus TV, Africa. A professor of education management, Steve Uye Badaig has faltered the federal government's plan to increase basic education funding to 3% under 2022 saying it is inadequate. Professor Uye Badaig said this at a training of education secretaries in Lagos, organized by the Human Development Initiatives. The state of Nigeria's education system still leaves much to be desired. Over the years, analysts have lamented the growth on the funding of the sector, as well as the rate of out-of-school children, which has increased as a result of insecurity. These issues took center stage at this training workshop. Those funding you are looking at on papers don't get to the child in the classroom. How much of education funding gets to the child in the classroom is marvelous. The child in the classroom is not touched, it's not even there. Nigeria has the largest population of out-of-school children. So what are they doing on the streets? So who is supposed to be in charge? So is education really funded? If at national level we have not gone beyond 7% of national budgets, voted for education for the last 40 years, things are really wrong. What we can do to keep our children in school, first you mentioned it, security to be in place, because the way it is now, some of the hindering factors for students not to be in school, then governments to put in more money, more funds into education, in terms, I know they call state in strife, but they still have to do more. They also prefer solutions to other issues affecting basic education in Nigeria. Much as we have advocated for improved security, I think the time has come for citizens to begin to take personal measures, particularly state governments. I believe that the state governments can do a lot around equipping their state apparatus. Apart from supporting the police and all the other paraphernalias, they can also create security watch groups that would help to assist to secure, at least for now, government owned schools in each state. The executive secretaries who were engaged in health, management and strategic planning share their optimism. Even the little I've had, I've started thinking of how to imbibe it into, even in my edu, I'm in the secretariat with my staff, early morning exercise, light ones that will help everyone of us. The Minister of Education Ademo Ademo had said the Buhari's administration was committed to ensure that these interventions have long-lasting dividends towards the empowerment and enlightenment of the Nigerian child. However, these experts beg to differ. For Plus TV Africa, Gozika, Ohio to see. Opinions have it that the problem with Nigeria's education sector goes beyond lack of money but simply a case of lack of interest in the sector by the political elite. But while blames have been apportioned, let's not forget the whopping number of out of school children. The 38 Commandant of the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Center, Osho De Lagos, a vice marshal Idi Gamso Lumbu, has called for a better welfare for retired military personnel. Lumbu emphasized on the need to help them integrate with ease into the civil world. Plus TV Africa's correspondent Destiny Momo in this report takes a look at the deliverables of the center. This neatly maintained skill acquisition center, housing 42 workshops, is open for retirees to choose to be trained in. These skills range from agricultural, water production, fashion design, information technology, jewelry upgrading, livestock farming to various other profitable skills for the benefits of retirees. During the three months training, retirees can decide to choose two kinds of skill acquisition to learn from. The 38 Commandant of the Center, Vice Marshal Idi Gamso Lumbu, speaks on the journey so far in his tenure. Anyone can aspire or desire to be proud of and it involves sacrifice of not just the body and self or sometimes our lives, you know, we might have to pay the screen price is a very painful, you know, experience for you to see your colleagues that you just saw now going airborne and not coming back or an officer that you have tax to embark on an operation and not return. This is the concern of a military commander, but because of the nature of what we do, that is the call to duty is a sacrifice for Fatherland and I joined all families that are brave of their brave winners in the course of the conflicts that we are faced with within the country and outside the country, where we have our soldiers serving to share with them the pain of having to lose a father or a brother, but I tell you that it is service that has been instituted by God and from creation, it has been so. Their sacrifice is not in vain. I believe that the military hierarchy has in place, you know, aspects of wealthier schemes to cater for the needs of wives and children in the absence of loved ones and for those of us that have retired, I think there is some certain level of improvement in our you know, entitlements as we are living the service and this came during this regime of the present government under the watchful eyes of President Muhammad Ibrahim and we are grateful to the CNC. One of the trainers takes us through the processes of training and the skills and the value it brings to the retirees. The water factory is one of the workshops in Nafriq that is, Nafriq is immediately a skilled acquisition centre that is designed to train the men of the emphasis that has served their fatherland for 35 years. So after the service, we try to give them skills that they can use to empower themselves. It's a kind of empowerment program. So this is one of the workshops where we take you through the skills, acquisition, we train you on production of water, how to sell the water, how to market the water and it takes just about three months to to acquire the skills because we make you go through the process and some process of repairing of your machine and you go on marketing also. So it gives you a full package of what you expect out there when you are producing water. The challenges you come about, what your workers are going to do to you because you see what the workers are, how they try to manoeuvre, how they try to work. So it gives you a picture of how you see how they when you go out there. And this trainee is learning how to produce sachet and bottled water in large quantities. She is excited about the near immediate benefits once she rounds up the program. I've gained a lot coming to North Africa as an inexperienced, somebody that have no knowledge about water factory, only drinking it at home or on the streets. Coming to this place, we are made to know the quality of a good water. Then we will train how to manage, to start the business, to manage the business. After retirement, you can always get something to fall back on and how to market it, to get a good market, all what it entails like the nooks and the crannies of the business, the rudiments of the business were being taught here. So not that when you go outside, the hanky-panky, maybe your staff want to play everything as a student here you learn. This is the last phase of the regimented lives, acquiring these skills is equal to ease into civil lives. Destiny Momo for Plus TV Africa. And that's all on this edition of Plus Report, but before we go, let's remind you to please follow us at Plus TV Africa on Facebook, Instagram and now of course Twitter and also do subscribe to our YouTube channel at Plus TV Africa. I'm Jacinta Obuco, thanks for watching.