Food prices and other Nigerian horror stories
The write-up in the Weekend Trust edition made a very interesting read. Nigerians have never had it so bad than now since the advent of the country. Things have literally gone haywire and beyond the reach of the average citizen. Prices of foodstuff so have hit the roof with families barely surviving through by going […]
The write-up in the Weekend Trust edition made a very interesting read.
Nigerians have never had it so bad than now since the advent of the country. Things have literally gone haywire and beyond the reach of the average citizen.
Prices of foodstuff so have hit the roof with families barely surviving through by going for things that were seldom consumed but left as feeds for animals.
Families that have hitherto considered rice as the most staple food have now resorted to the use of maize, sorghum and millet, not minding the demands of time and effort in their preparation and with the concomitant reduced satiation derived from such meals but situation has now made it a veritable replacement for the highly prohibitive most preferred rice.
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Beef, with its complementary advantage, is now reserved for a few. The nutritional benefits and balancing addition that meat provides for the average meal do not matter for now. A locally processed cheese made of soya beans locally called ‘awara’ has become the choice replacement for meat.
Feeding for now is the most challenging aspect of life that has made other necessities secondary in these days Nigeria.
The UN projection that 65 per cent of the monthly take-home of workers goes for feeding may not be accurate enough because the worker spends close to 80 per cent of his earnings to provide the manageable food that may hardly see him through without going out to borrow during the month.
Nigerians are actually facing a most terrifying difficult period that is unprecedented and indescribable in terms of the skyrocketing cost of commodities in the market.
The lamentations will surely continue because even with the early harvest of certain food crops prices have not shown any sign of going down.
May Allah intervene in all our affairs.
Engr Ibrahim Zanna Mahdi wrote from Wuye, Abuja