₦airaland Forum

I remember the good times in this country. Days of kobo (coins). Even as a Lagosian there was no time of the year we didn't eat my family's favourite food- Yam.
If my mum buys yam, the amount she cooks and the way it is cooked would give me a foresight if we were going to eat it with fried eggs, fish sauce, butter or (when prayer don answer) pounded yam. The way we were brought up, you aren't meant to ask your mum what she's going to cook... especially if we have a case we are being reprimanded for (a family of four boys, so we get a lot of those).

My wife knows say I no dey mess with my stomach.
Yam…the very food. In the least, Yam and palm oil with salt to taste are happily wedded in an African stomach. I speak for the majority.
We dey chop! But not like before. Things don cost.
But Yam. Where Yam dey abeg?… to cut this torey short. Where are all my 'aboki' yam sellers? I leave work go market and what I saw was an apology for yam’ sake. Warris happening?

Nairalanders. Where I fit get YAM cheap and plenty too. I fit change my career to selling of YAM.

Make una show me front page. For YAM’ sake.

Lol..... Yam is pretty available all over but it's the dry ones you will find and the least size starts from 4k. No matter how good your bargaining power is, aboki price will humble you when it comes to yam levels.

Yam has yamutu from circulation! When and where you find it in Lagos, be ready to cough out #5,000k
It's unbelievable, the cost of commodities in the market

Asides cost of input, the cost of transporting o bag of rice is approx same for 35-40 tubers of yam. Any heavy food item is now very expensive. Watermelon has tripled almost like yam.

Efuaye:
Yam has yamutu from circulation! When and where you find it in Lagos, be ready to cough out #5,000k
It's unbelievable, the cost of commodities in the market

Even if e no dey Lagos. We for go find am come. But where?
Me I know say this matter dey pain people well well. I speak for the majority.

Tokskob2008:
Lol..... Yam is pretty available all over but it's the dry ones you will find and the least size starts from 4k. No matter how good your bargaining power is, aboki price will humble you when it comes to yam levels.

No vex o. For your Estate gate or for marketplace?

Pastoshizzy:
I remember the good times in this country. Days of kobo (coins). Even as a Lagosian there was no time of the year we didn't eat my family's favourite food- Yam.
If my mum buys yam, the amount she cooks and the way boils it would give me a foresight if we were going to eat it with fried eggs, fish sauce, butter or (when prayer don answer) pounded yam. The way we were brought up, you aren't meant to ask your mum what she's going to cook... especially if we have a case we are being reprimanded for (a family of four boys, so we get a lot of those).

My wife know say I no dey mess with my stomach.
Yam..the very food. In the least Yam and palm oil with salt to taste are happily wedded in an African stomach. I speak for the majority.
We dey chop! But not like before.
But Yam. Where Yam dey abeg?... to cut this torey short. Where are all my 'aboki' yam sellers?

Premium Be Unto You

If Yam is too expensive, then go for Potato that's a bit cheaper.

Pastoshizzy:
No vex o. For your Estate gate or for marketplace?

Boss, yam dey. It's just very expensive that's all!

Them say make man-pikin dey plant yam for sack if man-pikin wan chop yam. 🤷🏽‍♀️

For this Tinubulation era, everything now na DIY, otherwise OYO!

Premiumbuy:
Premium Be Unto You

If Yam is too expensive, then go for Potato that's a bit cheaper.

Potatoes don't compare to Yam.
I detest sweet potato.

Tokskob2008:
Boss, yam dey. It's just very expensive that's all!

Actually, what I had in mind was the bush market.. the farm.
Location tinz..u know.
Beats me we eat yam all the year round as kids?

Mariangeles:
Them say make man-pikin dey plant yam for sack if man-pikin wan chop yam. 🤷🏽‍♀️

For this Tinubulation era, everything now na DIY, otherwise OYO!

That is..as in..Yam in bags?..wait o.
Is that..?

Pastoshizzy:
Potatoes don't compare to Yam. I detest sweet potato.

Premium Be Unto You
Even when it is fried?

Pastoshizzy:
That is..as in..Yam in bags?..wait o.
Is that..?

You wan chop yam abi you no wan chop yam?

Mariangeles:
You wan chop yam abi you no wan chop yam?

I wan chop.
I no sabi farming o. I for like research as to where to buy cheaper yams.

Premiumbuy:
Premium Be Unto You

Even when it is fried?

Uhmm! Okay.

Y

Farmers have been chased away from ariable farmlands by the menace of bandits and BH terrorists. So staple food crops like Yam are no readily available. So sad! Too bad!

Come to Cross River State lemme get good yams for you

Goats have eaten it

Y'all know the goats 🐐

Tinubus house

Wahala for who dey eat yam....

All those Mallam that normally hawk yam on the streets sef we don't see them again. Same thing with beans. It is well with is in this country.

Tokskob2008:
Lol..... Yam is pretty available all over but it's the dry ones you will find and the least size starts from 4k. No matter how good your bargaining power is, aboki price will humble you when it comes to yam levels.

Yam levels now dey like Chioma leg......

I love boiled yam in one plate and palm oil, onions, leaves, oil beans, salt and pepper in another plate.

Tinubu house

If you can find someone based in Abuja, Nassarawa or Benue to buy and send them to you. Even with the cost of shipping to your base, it's still better than what is being sold in our southern markets. If you're based in Lagos, enter mile 12 market, the very first gate close to Kosofe bus stop,that's where the yam dealers are. Don't ever make the mistake of buying from the abokis at the roadside, that was the mistake and my mistake used to make till I recently entered the gate. Go right into the gate, you go see yams you go bow. Just that those abokis inside don't sell yams apiece like the ones outside, they sell in stacks of up to 10 yams. Luckily, they're always people waiting around for who to share a stack of yams with.

Cocoyam don marry am