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Looking at this representation, it appears Nigeria has one of the highest food prices in the world. I have seen naive statements comparing the cost of coke in the U.S to Nigeria and then postulating food is cheaper in Nigeria. This blindsides the real cost of food i.e cost as it relates to earnings or affordability

The monthly salary of many graduates working full-time today wouldn't get them a 50kg bag of rice. Even if we use minimum wage figures (which many don't earn), the picture is still dire. This is unheard of in many countries.

Even in our mannerisms today, its obvious that food is seen as prenium. 'Enjoyment' in many movies is depicted as a large bowl of food with lots of meat. When someone starts getting obese after marriage, a better job, or political post, folks say they are now enjoying. These could be considered unhealthy habits elsewhere.


This food conversation is eerily similar to taxation. Effective taxation is a significant factor in sustaining the general population wealth of many countries. Something many Nigerians think is a disadvantage of living in western nations

Nigeria households spend almost 60% of income on feeding

Anybody who claim food is cheap in Nigeria deserve to be sentence to life in prison.

Food is very cheap in the USA. Ban on meat, fish, chicken etc should be lifted by the FG

jedisco:
Looking at this representation, it appears Nigeria has one of the highest food prices in the world. I have seen naive statements comparing the cost of coke in the U.S to Nigeria and then postulating food is cheaper in Nigeria. This blindsides the real cost of food i.e cost as it relates to earnings or affordability

The monthly salary of many graduates working full-time today wouldn't get them a 50kg bag of rice. Even if we use minimum wage figures (which many don't earn), the picture is still dire. This is unheard of in many countries.

Even in our mannerisms today, its obvious that food is seen as prenium. 'Enjoyment' in many movies is depicted as a large bowl of food with lots of meat. When someone starts getting obese after marriage, a better job, or political post, folks say they are now enjoying. These could be considered unhealthy habits elsewhere.


This food conversation is errily similar to taxation. Effective taxation is a significant factor in sustaining the general population wealth of many countries. Something many Nigerians think is a disadvantage of living in western nations

What am seeing in the picture is so scary 😳

WhizdomXX:
Nigeria households spend almost 60% of income on feeding

If you look around, it's likely even more.

How do those who earn 40k survive?

Food in Nigeria is luxury.

Food is the cheapest thing in any developed world
Infact you don't need to work in order to eat in USA

Ikaeniyan0:
Anybody who claim food is cheap in Nigeria deserve to be sentence to life in prison.

Food is very cheap in the USA. Ban on meat, fish, chicken etc should be lifted by the FG

Food is a pastime in the west. It's surreal.

The daily takehome of a minimum wage worker (which no one would earn below) would most likely be enough to feed them for a month even if they went for exotic (imported) items.

For higher earners, a few hours pay (after tax) covers monthly feeding costs.

Were you expecting anything good to come out of mandate failure other the ruination his bolekaja policies threw the country into? I never believed anybody that would be worse than buhari until tinubu proved us wrong

aariwa:
Were you expecting anything good to come out of mandate failure other the ruination his bolekaja policies threw the country into? I never believed anybody that would be worse than buhari until tinubu proved us wrong

Hehe. Nigerias food scarcity didn't start today though it has significantly worsened of late. Our growing population keeps providing demand but inept politicians have been unable to come up with a concrete solution to utilise our ample arable land. Buhari was talking about grazing corridors in the 21st century. How ridiculous!

Funny thing is that around half of the countries in the image are in civil war or currently engaged in a war of some kind. Yemen for example is under a blockade. But they still have less hungry people than us.