{"id":197536,"date":"2025-05-06T18:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-fashion-leaders-demand-reforms-to-compete-globally\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:31:44","slug":"nigerian-fashion-leaders-demand-reforms-to-compete-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-fashion-leaders-demand-reforms-to-compete-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Fashion Leaders Demand Reforms to Compete Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">They say if properly nurtured, the fashion industry can preserve indigenous knowledge and project a positive image of Nigeria to the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nigerian fashion entrepreneurs have renewed calls for stronger government support for local enterprises, emphasising the global potential of Nigerian cultural attire if backed by sound policies and funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The call was made in Abuja on Saturday during the official launch of URAH Luxury Apparel, a fashion brand dedicated to fusing Nigeria&#8217;s cultural heritage&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505060386.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say if properly nurtured, the fashion industry can preserve indigenous knowledge and project a positive image of Nigeria to the world. Nigerian fashion entrepreneurs have renewed calls for stronger government support for local enterprises, emphasising the global potential of Nigerian cultural attire if backed by sound policies and funding. The call was made in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,12447,7617,8980,13530,4381,257,393,482,7580,254],"class_list":["post-197536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-compete","tag-demand","tag-fashion","tag-globally","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-reforms","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}