Minister: Yusuf Tuggar (Minister of State: Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu)
The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs conducts Nigeria's diplomatic relations, negotiates and ratifies treaties, coordinates consular and diaspora services, and represents the country in multilateral institutions.
It supervises Nigeria's missions abroad, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and Nigeria's seats at the United Nations, African Union, ECOWAS, OPEC, the Commonwealth, the OIC and the D-8.
Current priorities include the 4-D foreign policy framework - Democracy, Development, Demography and Diaspora - leadership in restoring constitutional order in West Africa following coups in the Sahel, advocacy for a permanent African seat on the UN Security Council, expansion of trade diplomacy under the AfCFTA, and engagement on climate finance and migration.
Minister: Balarabe Abbas Lawal (Minister of State: Iziaq Adekunle Salako)
Leads policy on environmental protection, climate response and biodiversity through NESREA, NOSDRA, HYPREP, the National Park Service and Nigeria's Climate Change Department.
Minister: Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim
Advances gender equality, women's empowerment and protection from violence through the National Centre for Women Development, gender desks across MDAs and Sexual Assault Referral Centres.
Minister: Hannatu Musawa
Promotes Nigeria's heritage, museums and creative industries — film, music, fashion, design and gaming — through agencies such as the National Council for Arts and Culture and the National Gallery of Art.
Minister: Joseph Utsev (Minister of State: Bello Muhammad Goronyo)
Manages dams, river basins, irrigation and national water-supply policy through the twelve River Basin Development Authorities, the National Water Resources Institute and the Clean Nigeria sanitation campaign.
Minister: Sa'idu Ahmed Alkali
Coordinates road, rail and inland waterways policy through the Nigerian Railway Corporation, the National Inland Waterways Authority, the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology and CRFFN.
Minister: Lateef Fagbemi
Headed by the Attorney-General of the Federation, advises government on legal matters, drafts legislation and conducts federal prosecutions, supervising Legal Aid, NIALS and the Law Reform Commission.