Nigeria's textile and apparel industries possess employment and value-chain potential for youths, yet the sector continues to develop weak industrial capacity, face imported competition with foreign firms, finance constraints, skills mismatches, infrastructure deficits, also limited integration between creative talent youth and productive manufacturing textile industries. This study examines how the creative capabilities of Nigerian youths can be linked to textile and fashion productions, digital commerce, design, cultural heritage, circular production, as well as export-oriented enterprises development in Nigeria. The study adopted an empirical secondary-data research design, combining labour-market evidence, trade statistics, policy documents, and documented programme result from the National Bureau of Statistics, International Labour Organization, Central Bank of Nigeria, World Bank, African Development Bank, UN Trade and Development, as well as World Trade Organization-related trade databases. Evidence is analysed thematically and comparatively to identify employment opportunities, binding constraints, and policy mechanisms capable of converting youth creativity into productive textile-sector growth. Findings indicated that the opportunity is not limited to conventional factory employment; it lies in an integrated youth textile ecosystem covering design, garment production, textile surface development, digital pattern-making, branding, merchandising, e-commerce, content creation, repair, upcycling, recycling, logistics, quality assurance, and export services. The study argues that skills training alone is insufficient without access to finance, productive equipment, reliable power, market information, industrial clusters, mentorship, intellectual-property protection and domestic and regional market access. It recommends a youth-focused textile industrial strategy linking technical and creative education as included in the curriculum of some universities and Polytechnics offering textile courses in Nigeria, with enterprise finance, apprenticeships, local procurement, cotton-to-cloth development, circular production, and AfCFTA-oriented export support. Such an approach can strengthen decent employment, entrepreneurship, industrial competitiveness, and inclusive economic growth in Nigeria.