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Nigeria spending $4 billion annually on textile, clothing imports

10/08/2016

Nigeria spends over $4 billion each year importing textiles and ready-made clothing, according to Hamma Kwaiaffa, director general of the Nigerian Textile Manufacturers Association (NTMA).  Speaking in the capital city, Abuja, he said this worrying statistic comes despite efforts by the Nigerian government to revive the country’s textile...

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