The Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Dingyadi, and his Housing and Urban Development counterpart, Ahmed Dangiwa, on Monday, appealed to the National Assembly for increased budget allocations to deliver on their ministries’ mandates.

The labour minister called for more budgetary allocation for 2025 to enable the ministry to scale up the performance of key areas of its mandate.

Dingyadi noted that the fund would be particularly used to renovate, reconstruct, and re-equip the skills development centres under the ministry and its agencies across the country, aimed at generating employment.

A statement on Monday by the ministry’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Patience Onuobia, said Dingyadi spoke in Abuja at the 2025 Budget Defence meetings with the House Committee and the Senate Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity, respectively.