Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - The Senate has called on the Federal Government to urgently ban all foreign textile materials from entering the country as part of efforts to encourage local cotton production and revive dead textile industries across Nigeria.
The upper chamber also urged the Ministry of Agriculture and
the Ministry of Trade and Investment to work toward bringing textile industries
back to life, arguing that such a move would create jobs for unemployed
Nigerians and help reduce youth restlessness and the insecurity that follows
it.
The Senate further requested that the Federal Government
provide additional funding to the Bank of Industry specifically dedicated to
the textile sector to aid its revival.
Additionally, the chamber asked the government, through the
Ministry of Agriculture, to promote cotton farming, noting that without cotton,
there can be no textile industry.
These resolutions followed a motion titled "Urgent Need
to revive the Textile Industries in Nigeria with particular reference to the
Kaduna-Kano axis." The motion was sponsored by Senator Sunday Marshall
Katung from Kaduna South and co-sponsored by Senators Adams Oshiomhole, Tahir
Monguno, Mustapha Khalid, Mustapha Khabeeb, Natasha Akpoti-Udughan, Kawu
Abdurrahman Suleiman, Simon Lalong, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Babangida Hussaini,
and Dandutse Mohammed.
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