Use local fabrics for school uniforms, says entrepreneur

The president, Africa Grassroots Women Empowerment Foundation at Igbeti, Oyo State, Mrs Ramatu Gbadamosi has called on public and private schools to use local fabrics generally known as Ankara for uniforms to help revamp the moribund textile firms in Nigeria.

Mrs Gbadamosi, who spoke to newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State recently, said such initiative would also create jobs for the unemployed youths in the country.

She expressed concern over the deteriorating condition of textile companies and the heavy dependence on foreign materials at the detriment of those produced in Nigeria.

The entrepreneur urged the National Assembly and the various state houses of assembly to make it mandatory for all schools in the country to adopt Ankara materials that are produced locally for their uniforms.

Mrs Gbadamosi similarly called on the Federal Government to create an agency for widows, particularly the young ones among them whom, she said, are suffering and are neglected. 

She suggested that such agency would take care of their various empowerment programmes, skill accusation, establishment of agro industries and getting revolving loan facility for the upkeep of their children.