The Senate has called for a total ban on the importation of textile products into Nigeria as part of efforts to revive the country’s struggling textile industry.
The resolution followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Sunday Katung, senator representing Kaduna South.
The motion was co-sponsored by Adams Oshiomhole, senator representing Edo north; Ibrahim Khalid, senator representing Kaduna north; Mohammed Tahir Monguno, senator representing Borno north; and Mustapha Khabeeb, senator representing Jigawa south-west, among others.
Presenting the motion, Katung said Nigeria’s textile industry was once one of the largest employers of labour in the country.
He noted that the first large textile manufacturing mill in Nigeria was established in Kaduna in 1957 and that government policies in the 1960s and 1970s helped the industry flourish.
