A university professor has put unemployment in Kano at over four million people.
Dean of Dangote Business School, Bayero University Kano, Prof. Murtala Sagagi, said the unemployment was due to a poor development agenda of successive governments.
The Dean disclosed this in a paper he presented at a forum organised by Kano Concerned Citizens Innitiative (KCCI) on Saturday in Kano.
“The inability of politicians, communities, academicians and other relevant stakeholders to collaborate in comprehensive strategies for economic development and prosperity of the state has made the state to remain backward.
“Over 500 industries are currently shut down in Kano due to lack of consensus for development and effective implementation of government agendas and policies,’’ Sagagi said.
Despite governments efforts to revamp the agricultural sector, more needs to be done to revitalise it, he said.
(NAN)