Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction
Minister: Vacant — update in admin
Coordinates disaster relief, social safety nets and refugee support through NEMA, NCFRMI and NSIPA, including the National Social Register and conditional cash transfers.
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Labour and Employment
Minister: Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi (Minister of State: Nkiruka Onyejeocha)
Mandate
The Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment regulates the workplace, mediates industrial disputes, promotes employment generation, and enforces occupational safety and Nigeria's commitments under International Labour Organization conventions.
It supervises the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), the National Productivity Centre, the Industrial Arbitration Panel, the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies, and the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) which administers the Employees' Compensation Scheme.
Strategic priorities include implementation of the new National Minimum Wage of ₦70,000, social-dialogue with the NLC and TUC, expansion of NDE skills and self-employment programmes, occupational safety enforcement particularly in mining and construction, the National Employment Policy, and labour-migration agreements that protect Nigerian workers abroad.
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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.
Interior
Minister: Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo
Provides policy direction for the Immigration Service, Correctional Service, NSCDC, the Federal Fire Service and the Citizenship and Business Department, including marriage and naturalisation.
Federal Capital Territory
Minister: Nyesom Wike (Minister of State: Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure)
Administers Abuja and the FCT under section 299 of the Constitution, exercising state-level powers over land, planning and municipal services through the FCTA, FCDA and AGIS.
Education
Minister: Tunji Alausa (Minister of State: Yusuf Sununu)
Sets policy for basic, secondary, technical and tertiary education, supervising UBEC, the NUC, NBTE, JAMB, WAEC, NECO, TETFund and the new student-loan scheme through NELFUND.
Water Resources and Sanitation
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.