About one hundred industries have been shut down in Kano due to power outage in the past three month in Kano.
Kano is the industrial hub of Northern Nigeria since and before independence.
In an exclusive interview with President manufacturers association of Nigeria Kano Jigawa jurisdiction Sani Hussein said the closure of about 100 industries in three months was due to lack of power and rising cost of diesel.
On Job loss he told our correspondent that about 2000 personnel have lost their jobs due to the closure.
He said only industries that are producing essential commodities are up to the task and even some of them are operating at half capacity.
He said those that stop operating are always at loss because with the power outage and high cost of diesel even if they produce due to poverty there is no purchasing power among the teeming populace.
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Sani Hussein further urge the government to make gas cheaper and invest in its production so that the industries in the North can survive like their southern counterparts.
