Abbas Yushau Yusuf
An estimated number of ten thousand people have lost their jobs in various manufacturing industries as a result of Covid 19 lock down in Kano State North-Western part of Nigeria.
The Chairman Manufacturers association of Nigeria Kano Jigawa Branch Malam Sani Hussein stated this in an exclusive Interview with the Nigerian Tracker.
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Malam Sani Hussein said during the Covid 19 lock down it was not easy for Manufacturers association of Nigeria as industries in the state were shut down.
He said when the lockdown was lifted industries in Kano and it’s neighbouring Jigawa State returned to partial operations.
Sani Hussein pointed out that the Operations of the industries was below capacity noting that one has to have a target for a year on what to manufacture and sale.
According to him the relationship between cost and profit is indispensable .
So the estimation of ones production determined the projected profit.
He said as the year begins most manufacturers set a target for themselves and unfortunately the lock down retarded their projected profit .
The chairman MAN added that apart from ten thousand job lose ,the manufacturers association of Nigeria have lost more than one billion Naira to Covid-19 Pandemic.
The MAN President says efforts are being made to recover from the lose and restore people to their jobs but that cannot be possible.
The reason why some people can not be restored back to their Jobs was that a number of them have lost interest and move on with their lives said Sani Hussein.
