… average size broiler sold between N15k and N18k
…as Nigerians celebrate Christmas
… women say we only visited markets to gaze at foodstuffs
Abuja residents groan and moan as prices of chicken and foodstuffs hit rooftop as Nigerians celebrate Christmas today.
In a short survey conducted by TheNewsGuru.com on eve of Christmas day, it was lamentations all through as most women revealed that foodstuffs and chicken mostly used during yuletide were unaffordable.
At the Kubwa village market many customers were sighted moving from one axis of the market to the other wearing long faces.
A lady who identified herself as Iyabo Kayode told our correspondent that:”Look around you do you see anybody buying anything, we are just here for window shopping and nothing else.
“Look at my long list here, I have been here for well over 2hours and I have not been able to buy a sachet of crayfish.
“All the prices of just last week have suddenly gone up, even ‘ugwu’ vegetable that we normally buy for N200 for a bunch is now N800. Tomatoes and pepper are now the exclusive of the rich.
Another woman, Mrs Christiana Chijoke at Dede market spoke in the same vein declaring that”honestly I am fed up things can’t continue this way there’s nothing that is affordable.
“N20,000.00 is like N500 of 2015 because with just N500 then you can at least buy tomatoes and pepper then little oil to cook something without chicken and meat.
“I came to this Dede market and till now it’s difficult for me to decide on what to buy at least for us to celebrate Christmas.
“How long will this continue because by January schools will resume we will now start thinking of how to pay school fees with empty stomachs.
A man who claimed to be a poultry farmer at the Dutse market had this to say: “This 2023 na small we de see so because by 2024 one broiler go reach N50,000.00.
“You know why, price of one bag of feeds for chicken de go up everyday, now the price na N16,000.00 we never know wetin go happen next year oh!
“If we start to de buy feeds from next year for N20,000.00 for one bag expect to buy old layer for between N6500 and N8000.
TNG recalls that inflation rate increased to 28.2 per cent in November showing a 0.87 per cent points increase over the 27.33 per cent recorded in October.
This is alarming as there’s no price control mechanism that has really worked in Nigeria and the withdrawal of fuel subsidy has further fueled price increase across all sectors of the Nigerian economy.