A Kano-based entrepreneur, Alhaji Isa Gerawa, says his new 1,200-tonnes-per-day solvent extraction plant in Kano will create no fewer than 5,000 jobs for the citizens.
Gerawa, who is the Chairman of Gerawa Global Oil Mills Nigeria Ltd., owners of the plant, said that he had invested 50 million U.S. dollars (about N18 billion) in the facility.
He told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday that the investment was directed at expanding the soybean processing and vegetable oil refining plant in Kano.
He said that the expansion was encouraged by the prevailing favourable agricultural environment in the country.
Gerawa described the wholly-indigenous plant located at Tokarawa Industrial Estate in Kano as the “biggest single oil mill in West Africa.
“The plant has a standard laboratory, 10,000-tonne capacity soybean storage silos, 15 million-litre soybean oil silos and warehouses.
Industrialist says $50m oil factory will create 5,000 jobs
