Mni — Last Tuesday, 23rd of July the National Executive Council (NEC) of the National Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers Union (NUTGWN) led by the President Comrade John Adaji had an historic privileged audience with His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa. Yours comradely as the General Secretary, made the remarks on behalf of the union. President Buhari is the first President of the Federal Republic to grant an audience to the leadership of a strategic labour intensive textile and garment sector in its 41 years of existence, which further confirms the inclusive disposition of the administration.
The President indeed "belongs to everybody" and " belongs to nobody". In the 1970's and early 1980's, Nigeria was the home to Africa's largest textile industry. Nigeria had over 180 textile mills in operations. The industry employed some direct 650,000 workforce and indirect millions of cotton farmers, traders and garment workers and tailors employed more workforce than the Federal government!.
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