Nigeria’s fashion industry, one of the most dynamic, culturally rich, and economically significant creative sectors on the continent now has an institutional backbone. The Nigerian Fashion Council (NFC) today formally introduces itself to the Nigerian public and the wider media as the country’s official Sector Skills Council for Fashion, Leather, Accessories, and Textiles, inaugurated on 4 March 2025 by the Federal Ministry of Education through the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).
The Council exists to do what no single organisation, association, or individual has been positioned to do before: coalesce Nigeria’s entire fashion value chain, its designers, craftsmen, manufacturers, innovators, policymakers, and industry associations around a singular, unified ambition. That ambition is the transformation of Nigeria’s fashion industry into one that is resilient, sovereign, and capable of contributing meaningfully and competitively to the global fashion economy.
“We are the institutional backbone that this industry has needed for decades,” said
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