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  • Meal For Learning (3): Traders Struggle To Stock Their Shops As Prices Go Up

    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…

  • Meal For Learning (2): Market Prices Stiffen Cooking Process, Alternative For Students

    Meal For Learning (2): Market Prices Stiffen Cooking Process, Alternative For Students

    For Twentyten Daily, Abdulsemiu Monsuroh highlighted how Nigerian students are finding it difficult to adjust to the increasing food prices despite having income from their sponsors (parents/guardians). For Kabirat Arowona, a part two undergraduate of Pasture and Range Management at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta(FUNAAB), cooking with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) has become…

  • Food Inflation Rocks Nigeria’s Economy

    Food Inflation Rocks Nigeria’s Economy

    Following a report published by the National Bureau of Statistics, the prices of food rose by 1.3 percent in December 2020, The closely watched index rose sharply by 19.56% in December compared to 18.3% recorded in the previous month. According to the report, “On a month-on-month basis, the food sub-index increased by 2.05% in December…

  • Nigeria’s Spiking Food Inflation Continues Unabated

    Nigeria’s Spiking Food Inflation Continues Unabated

    The prices of food items have increased by approximately 30 per cent in different parts of Nigeria over the last one year according to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, (NBS). The price of 1kg of onion rose from N202 to N270.59 showing a 33.38 percent increase. The average prices of local rice and imported rice…