Textile: Labour leader lauds CBN ban on sale of Forex to importers

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Comrade lssa Aremu, General Secretary, National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, (NUTGTWN) has lauded the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for banning sale of Forex to  importers of textile materials.

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Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele

Aremu, also a National Executive Council member of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), gave the commendation in llorin on Thursday.

The CBN had in its meeting with stakeholders in the Cotton, Textile, and Garment value chain on March 5, listed all forms of textile materials among items prohibited from foreign exchange in the official windows.

The CBN also promised financial intervention to textile manufacturers at “single digits rate, to refit, retool and upgrade their factories to enable them produce high quality textile materials for the local and export market.”

Aremu, also the Labour Party governorship candidate in Kwara in the March 9 elections, said the action of the CBN would promote…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper