The Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, has urged the National Assembly to increase the ministry’s 2025 budget allocation to enhance its core mandates, particularly in employment generation and skills development. Speaking during the 2025 budget defence session with the Senate and House Committees on Employment, Labour, and Productivity in Abuja on Monday, Dingyadi described the current allocation of N46,079,960,544 as insufficient to address the country’s pressing labour and employment challenges.
The minister emphasized that additional funds would be used to renovate, reconstruct, and equip the ministry’s skills development centres nationwide. These centres, he noted, are vital for generating sustainable job opportunities and fostering national economic growth. In a statement issued by the ministry’s head of press and public relations, Patience Onuobia, Dingyadi highlighted the importance of job creation as a cornerstone of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
“One of the key priorities of the Renewed Hope Agenda is job creation, which directly aligns with the Ministry of Labour and Employment’s responsibilities,” Dingyadi said. “To achieve this noble objective, we need special funding to modernize and expand skills development centres across the country.”
The minister called on lawmakers to prioritize investments in skill acquisition programmes to combat unemployment and drive economic progress.
