| High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by treesun: 4:17pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Residents in the South-South have sought Federal Government’s intervention in the ever-increasing cost of food items and cooking gas in the region.
The analysts who made the call in separate interviews, said government should stem the rising cost of the items through proper economic recovery plan and implementation.
They added that Nigerians should assist government in minimising the excesses of middlemen and market associations in hiking the prices of commodities.
The residents also identified the major factors contributing to cooking gas price hike in the nation to include lack of functional refinaries and off-takers for gas distribution.
On prices of food, they identified market forces, insecurity, farmer/headers clashes, insurgency, banditry, poor storage facilities and COVID-19 outbreak as causes of food price hike in the country.
Although the analysts appreciated current government’s efforts in solving the problem, they advised that the intervention should be urgent as food was one of the basic necessities of life.
A civil servant in Asaba, Mr Vincent Adeoye, said: ‘’Our challenge has become double in the sense that the cost of food items is high likewise that of cooking gas.
”How do we survive in this present situation when we buy a cup of beans for N150 and one kilogramme of cooking gas for N700?
”Our salaries cannot even feed our families, not to talk of paying school fees and rent. It is only God who helps us to survive.
”The present economy is making things too difficult for us and I will appeal to the government to come to our rescue.”
Also, Mrs Deborah Diai, a civil servant, said she had resorted to using charcoal for cooking since ‘’the price of domestic gas is now within the reach of the rich.”
”Three kilogrammes of gas does not last up to five days for me, because we are family of six,” she said.
The Chairman, Ika Liquified Petroleum Gas Dealers Association, Mr Onyeka Eze, said the increase in the price of domestic gas had affected the consumption of the product in the area.
According to him, before now, a kilogramme of gas sold for between N300 and N320, but in the last six months, the price had gone up to N650 a kilogramme.
”Before this increment, we dispense as much as 100 kilogrammes daily, but as at today, it takes us almost three days to sell 50 kilogrammes of it.
Eze urged the federal government to intervene in the continual increase of the price of domestic gas.
In Rivers, Mr Livingston Wechie, a civil rights crusader, urged the government to tackle the situation, saying, ‘’basically, there’s a tremendous hike in cost of living.
“While commodity prices are on the increase, wages and remunerations have remained static even when only a few percentage of the country’s population earn salaries.”
Wechie urged government to reconsider a proper economic recovery plan to ensure that basic commodities for daily survival took precedence over any other infrastructure.
He lamented that the price of domestic cooking gas had gone up from N3,500 to almost N10,000 for 12.5 kilogrammes.
He also attributed the high cost of foodstuffs in the country to the challenge of insecurity, farmer/headers clashes, insurgence and banditory.
Similarly, the President, Etche Farmers Cooperative Union, Mr Godwin Akandu, urged government to reinvigorate the economy by ensuring direct funding of farmers and strengthening security.
Meanwhile, Mr Sunil Umar, an Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) mini tank farm operator, attributed the current hike in prices of cooking gas to lack of functional refineries.
Umar said the situation was compounded because of lack of off-takers, to effectively distribute the huge quantity of gas produced by the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG).
According to him, the NLNG has always allocated to the Nigerian market as much as 450,000MPTA quantity of gas from 2015 till date.
Also speaking on the high cost of cooking gas, Mr Victor Ohwodiasa, Operations Controller, Department Petroleum Resources (DPR), Uyo, attributed the increase to deregulation of the sector and market forces.
“The gas market is deregulated and is driven by market forces; so the issue of demand and supply comes into play.
‘’Another reason is that there are some tariffs that were imputed by government recently; so that is why the price has jumped up.
‘’If we talk of gas penetration, gas availability and gas reliability, then something should be done about the price,” he said.
Ohwodiasa however said that government was working hard to intervene and stabilise the price of cooking gas.
A housewife in Uyo, Mrs Glory Inyang, said that the high cost of cooking gas had affected the feeding allowance given to her by her husband.
“I used to buy 12.5kg of cooking gas for N3,750, but today I have just bought the same quantity for N10, 000; this is on the high side,” she said.
Another housewife, Mrs Margaret Joseph, lamented that both the cooking gas and food items had become exorbitant at the same time, causing lot a lot of hardship to Nigerians.
Similarly, the Edo Chairman of the Grassroots Farmers Association of Niger-Delta, Chief Emmanuel Odigie, has identified insecurity, activities of market associations and bad roads as reasons for high cost of foodstuffs.
Odigie claimed that the farmers/herders clashes had made it almost impossible for most farmers to access their farms for fear of being killed or kidnapped.
He also attributed the high cost of food and other commodities to the lack of interest in agriculture on the part the youths.
‘’The youths in our state are not interested in agriculture. All they do is travel abroad for greener pasture wh8those left behind hunt for white-collar jobs.
“The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is also a major factor and as long as market associations exist, prices of foodstuffs and other agrucultural commodities will continue to rise,” he said .
Contributing, Dr Samuel Agoda, Agricultural Extension Officer, Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI), Sapele, attributed the hike in prices of food to post harvest losses experienced by farmers.
“For the few farmers that are producing this period of insecurity, storage facilities is a major problem.
“Most of these crops go bad easily after harvest because of lack of storage facilities,” he said.
Agoda however noted that the federal government, through NSPRI, had developed series of post harvest technologies for farmers to store produce in the post harvest value chain. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/10/high-cost-of-food-cooking-gas-south-south-residents-seek-fg-intervention/ 1 Like 
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| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by BigSarah(f): 4:21pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Just getting started, Buhari and osinbanjo are taking us somewhere. I don't know where, but I heard it has to do with a next level  125 Likes 8 Shares |
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| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Fahdiga(m): 4:22pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
You are seeking for the intervention of the same people that deliberately put you in abject poverty? South south should continue sleeping while the terrorist FG continues to use their oil money to develop north and pay ransom to terrorists 114 Likes 5 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Sonicroyel: 4:22pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Omo mehn be like Christmas no go Detty this year oh 8 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Baawaa(m): 4:23pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
This is general problem, 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by XXXXTENTACION: 4:25pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
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| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Naijanascam: 4:27pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Fasten your seatbelts for this sweet ride for the journey have just started..........
and the current agric minister said that this administration have lifted nearly 5million people out of poverty and still counting 18 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Homeboiy: 4:37pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
No price regulatory body 20 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Moferere: 4:40pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
The thing don touch everybody 1 Like |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by XXXXTENTACION: 4:47pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Moferere:
The thing don touch everybody No! Buhari zombies are exempted...  Anytime you want to buy something just screenshot your online posts and show them how you have been supporting Buhari online and they will allow you walk away with any goods of your choice....  93 Likes 7 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Xscape1993(m): 4:47pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
treesun:
Residents in the South-South have sought Federal Government’s intervention in the ever-increasing cost of food items and cooking gas in the region.
The analysts who made the call in separate interviews, said government should stem the rising cost of the items through proper economic recovery plan and implementation.
They added that Nigerians should assist government in minimising the excesses of middlemen and market associations in hiking the prices of commodities.
The residents also identified the major factors contributing to cooking gas price hike in the nation to include lack of functional refinaries and off-takers for gas distribution.
On prices of food, they identified market forces, insecurity, farmer/headers clashes, insurgency, banditry, poor storage facilities and COVID-19 outbreak as causes of food price hike in the country.
Although the analysts appreciated current government’s efforts in solving the problem, they advised that the intervention should be urgent as food was one of the basic necessities of life.
A civil servant in Asaba, Mr Vincent Adeoye, said: ‘’Our challenge has become double in the sense that the cost of food items is high likewise that of cooking gas.
”How do we survive in this present situation when we buy a cup of beans for N150 and one kilogramme of cooking gas for N700?
”Our salaries cannot even feed our families, not to talk of paying school fees and rent. It is only God who helps us to survive.
”The present economy is making things too difficult for us and I will appeal to the government to come to our rescue.”
Also, Mrs Deborah Diai, a civil servant, said she had resorted to using charcoal for cooking since ‘’the price of domestic gas is now within the reach of the rich.”
”Three kilogrammes of gas does not last up to five days for me, because we are family of six,” she said.
The Chairman, Ika Liquified Petroleum Gas Dealers Association, Mr Onyeka Eze, said the increase in the price of domestic gas had affected the consumption of the product in the area.
According to him, before now, a kilogramme of gas sold for between N300 and N320, but in the last six months, the price had gone up to N650 a kilogramme.
”Before this increment, we dispense as much as 100 kilogrammes daily, but as at today, it takes us almost three days to sell 50 kilogrammes of it.
Eze urged the federal government to intervene in the continual increase of the price of domestic gas.
In Rivers, Mr Livingston Wechie, a civil rights crusader, urged the government to tackle the situation, saying, ‘’basically, there’s a tremendous hike in cost of living.
“While commodity prices are on the increase, wages and remunerations have remained static even when only a few percentage of the country’s population earn salaries.”
Wechie urged government to reconsider a proper economic recovery plan to ensure that basic commodities for daily survival took precedence over any other infrastructure.
He lamented that the price of domestic cooking gas had gone up from N3,500 to almost N10,000 for 12.5 kilogrammes.
He also attributed the high cost of foodstuffs in the country to the challenge of insecurity, farmer/headers clashes, insurgence and banditory.
Similarly, the President, Etche Farmers Cooperative Union, Mr Godwin Akandu, urged government to reinvigorate the economy by ensuring direct funding of farmers and strengthening security.
Meanwhile, Mr Sunil Umar, an Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) mini tank farm operator, attributed the current hike in prices of cooking gas to lack of functional refineries.
Umar said the situation was compounded because of lack of off-takers, to effectively distribute the huge quantity of gas produced by the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG).
According to him, the NLNG has always allocated to the Nigerian market as much as 450,000MPTA quantity of gas from 2015 till date.
Also speaking on the high cost of cooking gas, Mr Victor Ohwodiasa, Operations Controller, Department Petroleum Resources (DPR), Uyo, attributed the increase to deregulation of the sector and market forces.
“The gas market is deregulated and is driven by market forces; so the issue of demand and supply comes into play.
‘’Another reason is that there are some tariffs that were imputed by government recently; so that is why the price has jumped up.
‘’If we talk of gas penetration, gas availability and gas reliability, then something should be done about the price,” he said.
Ohwodiasa however said that government was working hard to intervene and stabilise the price of cooking gas.
A housewife in Uyo, Mrs Glory Inyang, said that the high cost of cooking gas had affected the feeding allowance given to her by her husband.
“I used to buy 12.5kg of cooking gas for N3,750, but today I have just bought the same quantity for N10, 000; this is on the high side,” she said.
Another housewife, Mrs Margaret Joseph, lamented that both the cooking gas and food items had become exorbitant at the same time, causing lot a lot of hardship to Nigerians.
Similarly, the Edo Chairman of the Grassroots Farmers Association of Niger-Delta, Chief Emmanuel Odigie, has identified insecurity, activities of market associations and bad roads as reasons for high cost of foodstuffs.
Odigie claimed that the farmers/herders clashes had made it almost impossible for most farmers to access their farms for fear of being killed or kidnapped.
He also attributed the high cost of food and other commodities to the lack of interest in agriculture on the part the youths.
‘’The youths in our state are not interested in agriculture. All they do is travel abroad for greener pasture wh8those left behind hunt for white-collar jobs.
“The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is also a major factor and as long as market associations exist, prices of foodstuffs and other agrucultural commodities will continue to rise,” he said .
Contributing, Dr Samuel Agoda, Agricultural Extension Officer, Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI), Sapele, attributed the hike in prices of food to post harvest losses experienced by farmers.
“For the few farmers that are producing this period of insecurity, storage facilities is a major problem.
“Most of these crops go bad easily after harvest because of lack of storage facilities,” he said.
Agoda however noted that the federal government, through NSPRI, had developed series of post harvest technologies for farmers to store produce in the post harvest value chain.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/10/high-cost-of-food-cooking-gas-south-south-residents-seek-fg-intervention/ Nigeria my country. |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by treesun: 5:00pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Xscape1993:
Nigeria my country. I pledge to be loyal, but not honest! 3 Likes |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by treesun: 5:01pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
XXXXTENTACION:
No! Buhari zombies are exempted... Anytime you want to buy something just screenshot your online posts and show them how you have been supporting Buhari online and they will allow you walk away with any goods of your choice.... I can not laugh alone, Lalasticlala. 9 Likes |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Genesiis(m): 5:13pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Big loaf of bread I usually buy at the price of 600 is now 800 naira.
This is terrible. 15 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Nobody: 5:14pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
So, basically, people are calling for price controls. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Genesiis(m): 5:16pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Homeboiy:
No price regulatory body Nigeria seriously need this in all areas of goods and commodity not petrol alone. 10 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Nobody: 5:49pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Genesiis:
Nigeria seriously need this in all areas of goods and commodity not petrol alone. Then at the end of the day you would have massive scarcity of goods and services. Price controls on everything means no one would be able to make a profit...meaning you take your goods to where you can make a profit...which means outside the country or the black market. Petrol has been under price controls...which means the profits have not been enough to keep our refinereis in good repair...which is why we have bad refineries, and have had to import fuel. Profit in business is not for the businessman's pocket...it also helps him or her expand and upgrade his business. If you brought in price control for things like coke or milo, it would mean that NBC, and Nestle Nigeria won't be able to make profits to pay their suppliers, replace or upgrade manufactuing equipment, and so on. Meaning they go out of business. Likewise if YOU BRING Price controls on things like phone sellers, so that Iphone 12 can be sold at N20000 to help poor Nigerians get a phone, the phone sellers won't be able to make enough of a profit to pay their suppliers, meaning they go out of business. Same for market foodstuff...traders selling food items won't make enough money to pay their suppliers and trransporters for service...meaning that they allclose down...or go black market... There were countries that did what you are proposing. They were called the Soviet Union and East Germany. It worked...until there was no money, then the economies collapsed...with both countries. Modified If you are responding to this post, you are free to disagree with me. However, if you abuse me or call me names, or curse me, I will promptly report you to the moderators. There are people who have disagreed with this post without abuse or insult. You too can do the same. Thank you. Let's keep our discussions clean and neat...and point based.. 36 Likes 8 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by AntiBMC(m): 6:05pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
They are seeking the intervention of the FG, who is the main instigator of the hike? Lol.
The gas that's now so expensive belongs to the South o, but they have to beg these parasitic foreigners and pay high prices to use it. Ojoka. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by treesun: 8:32pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Hunger is bad and kills! 1 Like |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by limeta(f): 10:16pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
With Oil and gas in abundance |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Shellsploit: 1:21am On Oct 18, 2021 |
Gas is cheap here in the east...
Even food stuffs.
Let the waling continue! 5 Likes 1 Share |
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| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by b0rn2fuck(m): 1:26am On Oct 18, 2021 |
The most wicked government I have ever seen. sanni abacha na learner where where this type government dey. First class wickedness 5 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by elmessiahs(m): 1:27am On Oct 18, 2021 |
Ours in South south finds situations more debilitating. Wealth in abundance yet underdevelopment so present that you begin to wonder |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by mkoabiola: 1:28am On Oct 18, 2021 |
Wetin concern bubu.
Bubu is less concern...
Sebi na una vote am to power 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by b0rn2fuck(m): 1:28am On Oct 18, 2021 |
elmessiahs:
Ours in South south finds situations more debilitating. Wealth in abundance yet underdevelopment so present that you begin to wonder u still dey speak oyinbo. Buhari don finish 98% of Nigeria.. 5 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Tajbol4splend(m): 1:29am On Oct 18, 2021 |
BigSarah:
Just getting started, Buhari and osinbanjo are taking us somewhere.
I don't know where, but I heard it has to do with a next level Na talk be this? |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by Poiu11: 1:30am On Oct 18, 2021 |
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| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by mkoabiola: 1:30am On Oct 18, 2021 |
Bubu will jus be laughing aso rock
Una never see chi chomtin... Lol 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by elmessiahs(m): 1:30am On Oct 18, 2021 |
b0rn2fuck:
u still dey speak oyinbo. Buhari don finish 98% of Nigeria.. I just tire, how we survive is a miracle 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: High Cost Of Food, Cooking Gas, South South Residents Seek FG Intervention by seunny4lif(m): 1:30am On Oct 18, 2021 |
Life chicken na 7K and worst matter be say Christmas never reach oooh
Na Benin I dey talk about oooh 9 Likes 2 Shares |
