From ‘Global Textile City’ to study tours in Benin Republic: The shame of Nigeria
Nnamdi Azikiwe pursued industrial development with equal vigour, establishing textile mills in Aba and other eastern cities, drawing on northern cotton and local cultivation.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo established textile industries in the West, including Western Nigeria Textile Mills in Ikeja, drawing on cotton grown by Yoruba farmers in Abeokuta—cotton with the highest staple length and finest fibres among Nigerian varieties.
Douglas Baye-Osagie It is sobering to see the Vice President of Nigeria lead a team of Governors to the Benin Republic to study the operations of a textile mill.
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