TDRweekly - ep 48 - News Edition - a podcast by MAP MEDIA

The Development Report is a program with focus on amplifying and telling impact stories of NGOs/CSOs sector and share news that informs.

This Week on TDR we are giving you news updates around the world within development sector.

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On The Highlight

- Climate Innovation: Northern Youths Highlight Solution to Climate Problem in The Region

- LASG Owing Pensioners Since 2016 – Chairman, Lagos NUP

- SDGs fleet greets Greta Thunberg in NYC Harbour

- The YRK Leadership Awards Opens: Nominate a nonprofit leader

In details

Climate Innovation: Northern Youths Highlight Solution to Climate Problem in The Region

In bid to find a solution to climatic problems in North Central Nigeria, youths from the region have highlighted some climatic problems facing the region while also proferring solutions to the climatic problems.

These ideas will proffer better innovative, measurable and bankable solutions to combat these climate change problems.

The youths gathered at a Climate Incubation Hub event in Lafia, Nasarawa in line with the mandate of the Federal Ministry of Environment, through the Department of Climate Change, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Nigeria.

The event was facilitated by the International Climate Change Development Initiative Africa (Climate Wednesday), an environmental youth-led organization championing the creation of a climate-smart generation. 63 Participants from the North Central zone drawn from Abuja, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger and Plateau states were in attendance.

LASG Owing Pensioners Since 2016 – Chairman, Lagos NUP

Rev. Remi Johnson, Chairman, Lagos State Council, Nigerian Union of Pensioners, has revealed that since 2016, the Lagos State Government has not paid pensioners under the Contributory Pension scheme in the state.

Rev. Johnson revealed this while speaking at the Pension Stakeholders Forum organized by Pension Justice. Pension Justice is a Civic Tech organization championing the causes of pensioners in Nigeria.Johnson said the adoption of the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS was supposed to address the numerous challenges faced by pensioners while using the Defined Pension Scheme, DPS but added that it has not relief the sufferings of the pensioners.

Johnson stressed that the disregard for the plights of pensioners is a major reason their issues are not being addressed. He said, “the non-payment of pensioner’s entitlement is one challenge, yet another challenge is the nonchalant attitude to the plight of pensioners.”

The Chairman of the Lagos State Council of NPF also identified noncompliance with sections 173 (3) and 210 (3) of the Nigeria Constitution as a great challenge. He stressed that the unconstitutional provisions which provide for review of Pension every five year need to be adhered to.

Earlier, a Senior Manager at the National Pension Commission, names withheld, identified some challenges in the Pension Reform Act 2014, which initiated CPS

Team Lead, Pension Justice, Phillip Asen said the first in the series of the Pension Stakeholders Forum was meant to hear the plights of the pensioners with the purpose of finding a lasting solution.

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