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ABSTRACT
This research aims to analyze the effect of power supply outages on the productivity and profitability of small and medium enterprises. This research is a cross-sectional survey. A sample of 32 SMEs was selected using a non-probability sampling procedure in the form of purposive sampling techniques. The criteria for selecting the SMEs include their location within the Birnin Kebbi metropolis and electricity use in the business operation. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data for the study. MRM in the form of OLS was employed. StataCorp 14.0 (2015) was used to analyze the data. The result of the finding reveals that 90.91% of the enterprises studied indicated that power supply outage was the major constrained to their productivity and profitability, with an average of 180 hours of power outages per month lasting 6 hours per day, causing the enterprises an average of N240, 000:00 monthly. This study suggested that there was a need for the Kebbi state authority to establish an independent power plant to bridge the gap from the National grid for improved efficiency of SMEs in the metropolis.
Keywords: Power Supply Outage, Performance, Productivity and Profitability
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