Cement manufacturers yesterday gave graphic details of how the shortage of gas and Low Pour Fuel Oil (LPFO) is strangulating their operations and by extension undermining productivity, increasing the price of cement in the market and keeping teeming unemployed Nigerians away from otherwise available jobs.

As the issue of environmental pollution rages and nations are seeking alternative energy sources devoid of carbon emission, Nigeria, as a major oil-exporter, will be hard hit if nothing