FG Moves To Revive Cotton/Textile Industry

Disclosing this in a statement on Tuesday, the Vice President’s Media Aide, Stanley Nkwocha, said the government met with the ICAC at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital.\r\n\r\nChairing the meeting is the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima.\r\n\r\nAt the meeting, discussions centred on developing key components of the cotton value chain comprising farming, weaving, ginning and linking of cotton, all in line with the industrialization drive of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration.\r\n\r\nThe target, Nkwocha stated, was to “create over 1.

4 million jobs annually in the cotton/textile sector.” He said the delegation from the ICAC was led by its Executive Director, Eric Trachtenberg.\r\n\r\nThe statement read, “Senator Shettima urged stakeholders to come up with a roadmap for the revitalization of the cotton/textile sector in Nigeria, noting that “it is time to work more and talk less.”