Committee Against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the Economy

‘Nigeria loses N75b annually to smuggling of textile products’

October 31, 2014 by admin News 0 comments

The National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) has said that Nigeria loses estimated N75 billion revenue annually to smuggling of textile and garment materials.

NUTGTWN stated this in a communiqué it issued after a three-day workshop for trade union organisers, self-employed tailors and small-scale garment makers it organised in Ilorin in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES)

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