₦airaland Forum

Catalysttt:
Things are really getting expensive everywhere but seems to be better in some locations than the other (greed and selfishness inclusive)!

planetx:
Car is actually a luxury in Nigeria the recent fuel hike and people parking their cars proves it. But trying going without food for a day or two let see.

Catalysttt:
I'm trying to upload more images of other commodities and their respective price but nairaland is messing up

Catalysttt:
shear ignorance! Drop off this mentality really fast! Kidnapping is not exempted from the South!

RoyalBlu:
Right! Transportation cost has always been the 'fall guy'

It really do masks the greed of these traders.

Ykc2:
they will use their scrotum to transport b it down to southern Nigeria abi?who no wan do turn over?

Johnthesuccess:
Whenever I tell people that the north is the one feeding Nigeria they would argue with you. Southern people are very lazy when I comes to farming.

Offpoint1:
Stop justifying nonsense, they're not transporting individual yam.

The average cost of a tuber of those yam in the picture is N2500 in Lagos.

Please tell me the cost of transporting yam

HanisahZuwy:
I can do that for you. Depending on what you want to buy.

Catalysttt:
Things are really getting expensive everywhere but seems to be better in some locations than the other (greed and selfishness inclusive)!

Jeje247:
Not just transportation. Multiple taxations including rogue officers, area boys and prolonged road stay due to very bad roads all add to the transportation cost.
Even when the goods get to the markets down south, another round of multiple taxations and random settlements come to play, added to exhorbitant store rent

Catalysttt:
Things are really getting expensive everywhere but seems to be better in some locations than the other (greed and selfishness inclusive)!

Catalysttt:
what more can I be sir? It's cost nothing to be a good man, thus said the scripture! Jesus warned us about following the part of the fallen one! It's doesn't cost a dime! Unfortunately, the world is wicked!

Catalysttt:
Things are really getting expensive everywhere but seems to be better in some locations than the other (greed and selfishness inclusive)!

CondemnBattery:
Please how can we link up? can we talk on whatsapp? Yam and beans will do. maybe some tomatoes

CondemnBattery:
Please how can we link up? can we talk on whatsapp? Yam and beans will do. maybe some tomatoes

Konquest:
If those food delivery trucks and trailers in the uploaded image and elsewhere have dual CNG-gasoline hybrid fuel installed in them, that would instantly drive the cost of haulage and food sold in the markets down. Nigeria is more if a gas-producing country than a crude oil country because of the massive gas reserves which have more value in USD than the fast-depleting crude oil reserves.

With the geopolitical tensions and war between the Israeli on one hand and Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Iran on the other hand, if things escalate further and Israel massively bombs Iran as planned, the international price per barrel of crude oil will further rise thereby causing a massive spike in the pump price in many countries and also make absolute nonsense of the cost of feeding and transportation that folks in Nigeria are currently complaining about. A rapid and massive deployment of CNG (methane) fuel [which is far cheaper than PMS at N200 to N230 per standard cubic feet of CNG from NNPC and NIPCO CNG refill stations] and CNG conversion kits or outrightly purchase already factory-produced large CNG trucks and buses by the states such as Niger, Kano, Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Delta, Edo, Imo, Rivers, etc, and the central government is what would prevent the spread of more hyperinflation thereby making nonsense of the so-called minimum wage that is being implemented by some states.

The hyperinflation though is LARGELY a mix of artificial inflation due to greed and speculations, illegal toll collection by revenue agents on interstate routes, and illegal checkpoints where some security agents collect bribes. These have gone on unchecked for years since the days of the brutal military dictatorships in Nigeria, and have to be tackled immediately by the governments at all levels in order to remove these food distribution inefficiencies on interstate routes. Period.

Catalysttt:
Things are really getting expensive everywhere but seems to be better in some locations than the other (greed and selfishness inclusive)!

Catalysttt:
Can't this extortion by rogue people you highlighted be tamed ?

Ykc2:
oga transportibg trailer load of yam from niger state to lagos go and ask for the price then tell me, I don't to talk people who sit in their comfort zone be talking nonsense,

Offpoint1:
I need get time follow you argue.

The country suits you

Ykc2:
oga I no follow dey live for naija ooh na austria I dey live ,vienna capital city so if you like buy the yam 10 kobo na your cup ,

Catalysttt:
But the last time I checked, the word "Aboki" is a word that orginated from the Hausa language. So any literal definition attached to that other than what the owners of the Language defined it meaning to be may just be a derogatory term just to have superiority complex. But regardless, but the exposed, in exposed, educated, illiterate and the superior and inferior will all die

adolfHitler1934:
I agree with you 1000%. Over here in the South, greed is the order of the society. We always feel that we are smart whereas we are idiots, foolish, wicked and selfish.
Transportation from Enugu to Abuja is 38 to 55k depending on the company or bus for a journey of just 250 kilometres or thereabout, while Maiduguri to Abuja cost just 17k for a journey of over 600 kilometres.

Ndi` Uchu`

wickedclown:
I'm not surprised....Hunger is in Nigeria because majority of the working population are lazy and want white colar jobs...Even person wen study agricultural science for school go deh complain say hunger deh....

Alot of people prefer to stay on social media from morning till night looking for Facebook and TikTok money... There are a very few people left to farm and insecurity is not helping them at all.....

So the situation now is that, alot of people now depend on the small amount of food the few farmers produce