Fashion designers urge youths to venture into tailoring

Tailoring is considered by many people, Nigerian men, as an occupation that is not profitable.

Thousands of Nigerians, including those without higher education, prefer white collar jobs than skilled jobs that promote entrepreneurship.

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While giving reasons why most youths are not venturing into tailoring, a tailor in Jos, plateau State, Ahmad Abdullahi, said most of them were impatient to learn the job for two or three years before starting out on their own.

“Some people who have been in tailoring for decades have different stories about the career, because a tailor can be more successful than a salary earner.”

Labaran Tailor is another Jos-based tailor who has been in the business for the past 40 years said he owed his life to the business: “I have built houses and taken care of other basic necessities of life.”