Power outages worsen business operations in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa

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Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states are the most affected by the activities of insurgency in the North-east where critical assets, including power transmission lines, have been destroyed.

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Residents of the city now depend on generators, a development that has crippled many businesses including night life in the town that still has a 10 p.m. curfew, while nobody is allowed in or out of the city by 8 p.m. Yahaya Danlele, a tailor, highlighted the heavy reliance of modern tailoring on electricity and how many tailors are spending too much on fuel to be in business.In Adamawa State, residents and business owners in Yola, the state capital, also decried the drop in hours of power supply, leading to a disruption in social and economic activities in the state.

“This has also increased the cost of buying fuel to power generators in our homes and offices for alternative power supply. “The situation is really terrible. I buy one liter of diesel for between N1,500 and N1,750. We in the tourism industry are certainly not getting a return on our investments.

 

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