The ban of commercial motorcycles, popularly called 'achaba', in Kano State has cut off the livelihood of over half a million achaba riders, a union official informed our correspondent yesterday.
This could cost the state economy about N500 million every day, equivalent of N1.5billion per month, as an average motorcyclist earned about N1,500 a day.
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