Nigeria is really going through a rough time and i am just wondering how some people will cope with food ,especially now!
Prices of foodstuff is reportedly so high it is unbelievable.....Someone told me she used to get a small basket of Onions for N17K but as at this week,it is now N95K.......
I screamed at this info.....A basket of Onions for this amount?what about others?
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I dey Lokoja at the moment. The thing cost for here too but not as much as what you'll get in Lagos and other southern areas
ReplyDeleteWhich lokoja, I lived in that city for almost 5 years,things are so expensive in that town that you will begin to imagine,rent is crazy, I was living in a self con and I pains 250k .very expensive and boring village
DeleteHa just got back home from the market,rumuomasi morning market in ph. Local rice 50kg 26k. Half onions in that tomato tin,3k5. Yams bought 2 tubers 3k5. Indomie super Park 3k6,fresh tomato custard rubber 4k,tin tomato the sachet that gino tomato/onions of 2k2 be4,5k5 now. Abeg i dey come.
DeleteThings are now very costly o.. Very costly!!!dem no want make we chop again for Nigeria o
DeleteAnonymous 15:27 Lokoja is too boring! no development whatsoever and things are damn expensive. they feel cos they close to Abuja they are Abuja..mshcewww!
DeleteMaybe people should remember that when they are being tribalistic.
ReplyDeleteOur food comes from the north. Always remember that. Onions, Tomatoes, etc
So because you want to eat meat you will cow your brother?
DeleteThings were not like this before this present government came in.
They shut the borders and everything went up,they increased the price of pms,how do these people transport their goods if not by road?
The main food stuff aren't expensive but the cost of transportation, the cost of offloading the goods and they must make profits.
The profit to be made are what they are using to transport these stuff.
The problem with the Nigerian government from time immemorial is the lact of policy implementation.
Bless you Sucre.
DeleteGod bless you sucre
DeleteThank you sucre
DeleteThis is messed up!
ReplyDeleteAt mushin market 12 small onions is 700 naira I almost fainted! Paint of Garri 1000, even meat is getting costly.
ReplyDeleteAt Mushin Market Vegetable oil(ororo)5litre gallon is now 3700 naira.
DeleteRed oil nko 5lit 2600 at ijebu
DeleteHow much was paint of garri beforw?
Delete@anonymous 700, now 1000, I100
DeleteMeat is expensive because there are few live goats in town. The hausa guys have refused to bring them over. The looting of trucks carrying goats at Fagba in Ogba zone and the reprisal attacks has increased the scarcity.
DeleteMost things I bought from Oyingbo market and Mile 12 have tripled the prices, some by 5 in ration in less than 5 weeks. So how Xmas go be?
Dried mangala fish was N310 per one in the carton, now it goes for N720 except you want Adamawa one and not Kebbi and Kaba own.
I bought King's oil from G-Cappa at Iddo Complex on mainland at N6,500 now they sell N13,500 if they agree they have sef. No 20 liters anywhere.
I don beg my mummy in-law, no open any carton o, keep them as agreed till Xmas make ndi "nyetum". She laf taya.
E dey red for Lagos. What?
Priced one, it was about 5bulbs small oh, the woman told me 500, didn't know when I screamed "jesus wept!" Even the woman had to laugh.
ReplyDeleteNa God go save us for this country
Stella everything is expensive. Common local rice is 450 per derica, Sachet tomatoes is now 150,half paint of Banga that uswd to be 500 is now 800, is it meat that you normally buy 800 is now 1500. What of ice fish? that one another story. My hopes is in God and we all will survive this and tell the stories.
ReplyDeleteStill got sachet tomatoes for 60 today here in zamfara.fine local rice goes for 900 per mudu
DeleteAmen.
DeleteStellz, from pure water to bread, to garri etc everything is expensive.
These days we don't eat to be filled, but to have something in the stomach.
Chummy chocho, even the bread sef is full of yeast
DeleteTrue @Marvel. I think that's why it spoils easily now. Buy today, spoilt tomorrow.
DeleteStella, very correct oo..... Very very high
ReplyDeleteSatchet tomato is now 150
ReplyDeletePowerful is 130.
Spaghetti is 300
Stella,we in the south south,naim dey suffer am pass. The worst of it all is that other stuffs tripled their price too. But why. Its supposed to be just onion cause their trucks aren't coming in. But why other foodstuffs? At this point,I'm forced to believe that we are our own problem. The earlier we start to realise it,the better for us.
ReplyDeleteThere's massive "solidarity parking".
DeleteThe tomatoes and veggies have scanty harvest, so true but you see all those dry pepper, dry corn and beans trailer drivers? They've decided to down tools o.
Wahala dey.
the oyigbo crisis causes a lot of problem why do we still fight these people ringing in food then suffer for it
DeleteNot only onions, garri, beans, rice et al are just not bought at the usual price anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe annoying part of all these is that once anything goes up in Naija, they may never come back to normal or less.
My dear, it will never come back to normal.
DeleteMay God help us,we tried to help ourselves but the government keeps pushing the country and the economy to the brink.
No he small thing ooo..
ReplyDeleteBut guess what we will survive!...
List of food stuff that went high..
Tomato paste..that one has tripled in price..
Though I don't really like it except when cooking jollof..
Rice..foreign 35-40k
Native 26-32k...
Native Nigerian rice is good ooo,the 25kg I bought is dope!..
Finer than the foreign..
I cook more of it now..foreign is for jollof and fried rice..
Eggs...well that one is still okay..from 1200 per crate to 1500-2000..
Ugu..hmmm
Plamnut..
Indomie onion flavour...
Canola oil...
Infact,everything excluding beans..that one is still okay
Yea,some local rice sweet pass foreign. Couldn't believe the taste of the last I bought... the difference from foreign is just that it ain't polished. Sweeter and yummy but why being expensive when its locally grown and milled.Naija oo
DeleteEverything is damn expensive. No market to get it cheap unless those doing bulk shopping and even with that transport sef join. Traffic makes 200 naira Transport now 500, as a seller what will u do? I just tire for everything.
ReplyDeleteBulk is the best..
DeleteWe are still using the fresh tomatoes I bought from mile 12 before the lockdown...
My children are in that stage they eat alot!..
bulk buying has been helping me alot..
It is something in Abia here. The one that is painful is that small sachet if Tomatoes that use to be #50. I brought 150 yesterday. How 55k(food allowance) will feed my household this month is what I don't know.
ReplyDeleteLet God show us mercy and stop this hike
Try to buy a bag of rice and keep,other foodstuffs will be easier cos we depend mostly on rice.
DeleteSome youths in ABA attacked and burnt down 20 trailer loads of food that came from the north, unfortunately the trailers were mostly owned by Igbos, goods-Igbos, drivers of the trailers-northerns!!
DeleteThis incident happened Wednesday or there about.
It's getting ugly.
Well I sincerely thank God for His grace upon my family.
The tomatoes paste still shocks me
DeleteYeah, learnt the family size custard bucket full of onions is now N7,000.00.
ReplyDeleteBest to buy foodstuff in bulk, say a sack of onions from wholesalers and split with friends or colleagues - cheaper and more quantity.
Exactly..
DeleteI still have onions..plenty sef
Yesterday it was 2500 t0 3000...
DeleteMy sister, I asked someone to help me buy onions this week, when it was brought to me, the quantity was less than half bid what I was expecting. In my mind ,i was like no wahala, you have chop me, only for me to go to market 2 days later and when I priced onions, i screamed.
ReplyDeleteOnions, tin/sachet tomatoes, all food stuff prices has indeed gone up, you will be asking yourself how the very poor on 30k wages less will feed.
It is really a scary situation. This regime has been nothing but terrible. People will strive to death and some will become criminals just to eat. It's really bad
Starve*
ReplyDeleteI saw the mistake just before it disappeared
It's only God that will help us oooo. #1000 is nothing now o. If you just change it like this, that's all
ReplyDeleteNigeria is gradually entering into famine.
ReplyDeleteEveryday Farmers in the north are been killed, farmlands have been deserted.
The only productivity coming from the food regions of Nigeria is incessant deaths of men, women and children.
Look at the killings in Zamfara and Katsina, over 300people in the last one week.
Dead men don't Farm and No farmers equal famine.
LEP 🤔
To think we have a Living President 😱
DeleteHmmmmmmmmmmmm!
DeleteAptly written.
Wow... And this matter is not a National emergency
DeleteThank you.
DeleteNo farmers + no harvest = Famine.
God save Nigeria.
I still have blocked tomatoes in the freezer chilling. Bulk buying in seasons of bountiful harvest saves a lot of tension.
Let these people open the borders so that people can eat abeg
DeleteOnions expensive and half it sometime rotten.
ReplyDeleteAlways spread it under the sun..that's how I preserve mine..
DeleteNa people wey dey go market complain about perishables being expensive in some seasons.
ReplyDeleteI just buy the amount I can afford and wait till it gets better,then consume in reckless abandon in naija mum's voice.
My anger is the sealed products like sachet/tin tomatoes,dairies and their godfather"MrRice".
Nigeria go better, na life we dey pray.
Tin tomatoes are now expensive because Dangote lobbied the Federal government to ban the importation of tomatoes. He wants to have monopoly as usual when he releases his own tomato brand.
ReplyDeleteTrue, wch he tried to do with his dangote spaghetti,🙄 but golden penny Penny and others in the market pursue am back, he tried it with his noodles, indomie no gree,
Delete🙆♂️🙆♀️🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♀️🙆♂️🙆♀️
ReplyDeleteAm tired already
God help me runaway from Nigeria. Looking for food to eat.
But politicians that put us into this mess are busy sharing the remaining money in the country in order to put the country in depth before evacuating the position they are in.
God arise and let the enemies of Nigeria be destroyed and scattered.
Amen
DeleteAnd someone is telling you not to rain curses on the troublers of Nigeria. If you are on this blog and your father or mother is a politician, show them this post and tell them to reject looting from the masses money, that you don’t want the generational curse of Gehazi! Then any curse issued on you will be curse less. Someone I know travels first class to uk on Friday and gets back on Monday ($12000 with the kids tickets or more)to get the children who also live in luxury off the commonwealth while the masses are starving. One told me she had more of a luxury handbag brand (cheapest will run $5k) than she can use in her lifetime, not knowing I live in a country where there are more options than their narrow mind knows, I don’t own one because it’s not my priority). These aren’t even politicians but their fronts! The curses are bothering them!
DeleteIt’s disheartening hearing these stories and wish you all could organize to get donations of lightly used very good clothes (spring & summer is 6 months) for children and adults, we discuss it here and the consensus is that it won’t get to the poor if we send it to a charity in a container from about 20 families! A lot don’t want to give family members their used clothes or their children’s used clothes for reasons we can all guess!
DeleteA transparently run go fund me to fund bulk foodstuff purchase to get to the very poor or subsidize food or an outright food bank/pantry is needed. Who will do the screening? See Covid palliatives stolen by the rich! The Nigerian government has failed its people so we need private sector participation in setting up shelters and food pantries all over Nigeria. it pains me every time I drop off things at Goodwill or Salvation Army though they are sold at $2 or low prices to the needy, but I wish I had someone who could get them to Nigeria without selling them. They don’t pay me for them and I don’t care for the receipt anyway! To my point, a small 10kg bag of rice at Costco.com is the equivalent of N35,000, a tuber of miserable looking Ghana yam is about $10/$13 or N36,000. I wish they sold ofada rice here as it’s healthier than parboiled or uncle Bens rice. I fill my tank with $65 and considering the taxes that go up with your income, the economy here is not good with this pandemic and Trump. I know it’s still better here but a bag of onions at Costco is N28,000 (about 12 inside), while a single red bell pepper (tatase) is $2.00. Amazon owned whole food is now better priced and has organic healthy food plus they deliver within 4 hours sometimes but things like tomato and pepper for soup are still expensive as it’s not used here in quantities we use them. I remember a woman asking me if I wanted to use all the tomato I bought for home made Italian pasta sauce. Unless you live among naijas who go far to other states to ranches to divide cows. or go to restaurant depot stores to buy boxes of tomatoes & redbell pepper! I eat oyinbo food, I don’t use palm oil, haven’t in over a decade. You can cook anything with olive oil or canola oil. Trying to live healthy makes me reluctant to start feeding on a lot of red meat while fish which is my preference is like $10/$25 for 2/3 medium to large sized Cod, Halibut etc. Don’t move near snapper fish! It’s even pricier! I ordered grocery for home delivery and I was surprised at the charge plus tip.
Prices are generally steady here but there was a time Lysol was sold at $54 and I had to order Dettol on Amazon for $34/3 Bottles! I’m pretty sure those here on low wages are suffering as 40 million Americans are now unemployed in a recession largely triggered by the American president’s incompetent handling of the global COVID19 crisis. Unemployment pay is not ad Infinitum for those with no jobs so they either do odd jobs after exhausting their savings or go daily to the food bank. It’s sad! The difference is that most Middle /upper families help contribute to the food bank but they will only take canned food from individual contributors plus money. for safety reasons. They buy cheese and milk for them with the cash donation. The recession is global.
Let’s pray for America to get a God fearing, globally responsible leader by the time we get the election results and that the attempts of the wicked to impose authoritarian and corrupt rule will be foiled by God. The man some Christians like said he has NEVER asked God for forgiveness in his 74 years on earth, adding “ why should he”. If America coughs the world catches cold and I may be wrong, this is it.
This price increase is disheartening coupled with what we are already going through in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteI use so much onions for cooking but sadly I've reduced the number of onions I use now.
Hubby was helping me buy foodstuff yesterday when it got to satchet tomatoes, he called me to say 500 per roll(5 pieces), I told him to ask the girl very well since her mum wasn't in shop. Guess what the girl said? My mum told me "plenty times" that it's 500 naira.
E shock me o.
#itwillendinpraise
Lol!!!
DeleteSorry I had to laugh at your comment.
It is well, believe me.
'My mummy told me plenty times'🤣
DeleteIt is well
Lol
DeleteObedient girl
Hahahaha.... plenty times
DeleteI bought a bag of onions from mile12 market yesterday for 55k while
ReplyDeleteI am just coming back from the market. What my eye saw. My mouth cannot say all. How can l buy a mudu of white beans N550.00, a kilo of red meat N1,800.00. Am still thinking about it. Buyer dey vex. Seller dey vex.
ReplyDeleteZaram u captured it perfectly. Buyer dey vex. Seller dey vex too.
DeleteI am just coming from the market, my mouth no fit talk am o. We thank God for providence
omo.wow. Things are getting serious o. e remain to fast now cus things are getting very costly o. oga
ReplyDeleteOnions is gold now ooo, bag of onions dat is btw 8000 to 9k is now 55k to 60k, God heal our land from poverty. Cost of transportation is the major prob we have in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteThings are really expensive
ReplyDeleteGrumbling to and fro from the market.
These days it's best to buy in group and share if u can't afford to go solo. We bought a bag of garri for 7k and shared . The times are just so scary
It is well with us ooo.At the end of this year our prayers will be thank God for life. Nigeria is now a very tough place to live.
ReplyDeleteEverything is so expensive on the market.
ReplyDeleteThe prices keeps going higher everyday.
It's just depressing me.
These day we just eat little little o, God will save us in this country
Abeg who onions epp?
ReplyDeleteI don't bother with it again.
It's just best for everyone to get into farming no matter how little.
We fried garri two weeks ago but before then,it was draining having to buy from the market. On a normal,we dey our own garri.
The yam and water yam we planted this year had very poor yield.
Everything is on the high now.
Why stop importation when you haven't made reasonable provision for local production.
I'm just glad that all those blind followers of this administration are also buying from the same market with all of us. Make all of them follow suffer am
Its terrible its an understatement. You all said it all...went to market before I will go halfway my list money was almost gone..Had to edit the list fast..The aboki I bought onion from said erosion is the main reason why onion is as precious and expensive as diamond..Most farms in the North were ravaged by erosion in the months of July/August..
ReplyDeleteThat's true my sister, the maize my husband planted yielded nothing after spending heavily on it. The rain was too much for it.
DeleteRice now goes for 900 per midi for local and 24-25k per bag for foreign
25k for foreign rice hmmm, you guys are in heaven then, here in Delta State is 40k, local 24-28
DeleteI went to the market and the price of foodstuffs is crazy
ReplyDeleteA paint of beans is 2000
2 onions for 200
5litres king oil 4000
Onions and tomatoes are hot cake now ooo, I'm learning to cut down some food that I put onions, I can't kill mysef.
ReplyDeleteThis Covid pricing is out of control. Price of everything high everywhere.
ReplyDeleteEverything is on the high side,to go market they fear me now, e go be like say you lost money
ReplyDeleteWhen the government through the covid 19 aid use the money to buy up a lot of food from the supply chain and locked it up. What do people expect, is like the law of demand and supply. Plus people can't go to farm in peace herdsmen killing farmer in their farm and cows eating up hectare of crops, what do we expect. Even kidnappers kidnap people on the way to the farm. Truth be told Nigeria is indeed in trouble. We need to wake up now pray and change our ways. Because all this that is happening is destroying everything.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to farming in southern Nigeria. We use to have very productive farms. Now, urbanization has take over. Back in the days youths left the villages because of education and skills. Today, most of them are out of the rural areas and roaming the streets of urban centres, jobless and engaging in crimes. People would rather become nuisance in the cities than stay in our villages and farm.
ReplyDeleteIn Benin where l live market women have turned themselves into mafia gangs. Farmers are not allowed to sell directly to the buying public. They determine how much farmers will sell their produce. Bini market leaders hijack trailers of farm goods coming from the north, determine the price of goods and who they sell to.
Very annoying! I have heard this before. Government turns a blind eye because they and market women leaders walk arm in arm
DeleteWoooow, things are happening ooo
DeleteThings are too expensive,may God provide for us...is only twice a day am eating.
ReplyDeleteAunty Lylon, And that one is not enough for you? How many times were you eating before 6 times? Eku enjoyment o.
DeleteDear Nigerians, you ABSOLUTELY DESERVE the government you elected.
Enjoy the massive suffering yet to come. This one is just appetizers.
Anon what is wrong with you
DeleteBibi, face your raggedy front.
DeleteI'm certain I did not whistle for you.