{"id":35723,"date":"2019-10-30T14:07:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=35723"},"modified":"2019-10-30T14:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:07:39","slug":"cbn-to-spend-n100bn-on-textile-industry-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/cbn-to-spend-n100bn-on-textile-industry-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"CBN To Spend N100bn On Textile Industry Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"post-subtitle\">\u2022 As uniformed services sign MoU with local garment companies<\/h2>\n<p>Governor of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbn.gov.ng\/\">\u00a0Central Bank of Nigeria<\/a>\u00a0(CBN) Godwin Emefiele said, on Tuesday, that the bank intended to deploy as much as N100 billion loans in its bid to revive ailing cotton and textile (CTG) industry.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke in Abuja during the signing of two memoranda of understanding between the National Cotton Association of Nigeria (NACOTAN) and Ginning Companies and also between Nigerian Textile Manufacturers Association and Armed Forces of Nigeria Police, Paramilitary Institutions and National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).<\/p>\n<p>Already, Emefiele said N50 billion had been disbursed from the N100 billion. The MoUs will see the ginning companies buying off cotton produced by farmers while textile manufacturers will supply materials for the production of uniforms by Nigerian uniformed forces.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>According to the CBN Governor, \u201cNigerian cotton, textiles and garment sector has been facing very difficult challenges resulting not only in the closure of over 150 textiles firms in Nigeria but also loss of over 2 million jobs on 1990s beginning from the cotton farmers, to the ginneries and textile firms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarmers and processors had to deal with low-quality seeds, rising operating costs and weak sales due to the high energy cost of running factories, smuggling of textile goods, and poor access to finance.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of\u00a0Central Bank of Nigeria\u00a0(CBN) Godwin Emefiele said, on Tuesday, that the bank intended to deploy as much as N100 billion loans in its bid to revive ailing cotton and textile (CTG) industry.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1593,17,624],"tags":[36],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-35723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-metro","category-news","category-politics","tag-cbn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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