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Meal For Learning (3): Traders Struggle To Stock Their Shops As Prices Go Up
For Twentyten Daily, Taiwo Babatunde visited market places around tertiary institutions and spoke to traders on the increase in food prices and how it is affecting the growth of their businesses Ugwu Jullieth is a trader at Oye market in Ekiti where she sells rice, beans and other food items. This market is just 50…
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Beans, Garri Prices Drove Annual Food Inflation
The National Bureau of Statistic has said in a new report that the prices of beans and garri drove annual food inflation in May 2021. According to the ‘Selected food prices watch for May 2021’, there was a general rise in food prices in the month under review. The report stated that the national bean…
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Nigerians Spend More to Eat than Live
More than 82 million Nigerians, who live on less than $1 a day, are finding it difficult to eat a basic three square meal as the food inflation in November hits 18.30 percent in November 2020 compared to 17.38 percent in October 2020. The latest data by the National Bureau of Statistics recorded that the…