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Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Okortor: 7:45am On Aug 26

City for a reason........not villa

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by greatiyk4u(m): 7:46am On Aug 26

Dghold:
Omo, its quite shocking and surprising that some food prices in lagos is cheaper than my home state in the east. Eg garri, oil etc.

And where is that your home state in the east with such high cost on things we produce like garri and oil?...did you consider quality?

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by greatiyk4u(m): 7:47am On Aug 26

This is the secret help fuel subsidy was rendering to all Nigerians irrespective of status

What is the wisdom in suffering Nigerians in the name of subsidy removal while pushing money to Governors who don't about the masses?

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Kukutente23: 7:50am On Aug 26

CharlesCNG:
Here is an overlooked part of Nigeria's food crisis: WHERE YOU LIVE can determine how much you pay to eat.

NBS's July 2026 data show urban inflation at 16.12%, compared with only 13.77% in rural areas. Month-on-month, urban prices rose 1.90%; rural prices just 0.78%.

Now leave the statistics office and enter the market.

On August 21, a large yam at Gboko Main Market in food-producing Benue cost about ₦1,200.
At Lugbe Market, Abuja? ₦2,500. Same unit. More than DOUBLE. Medium yam was ₦900 in Gboko and ₦2,000 in Abuja. Rice shows it too. A 50kg bag of Nigerian rice was ₦45,000 in Gboko versus ₦57,000 in Lugbe.

And then comes the tomato. A small basket was recorded at ₦16,000 in Kano's Dawanau/Yan Baka market but ₦30,000 in Lugbe, Abuja. In Lagos, recent tracked prices have been substantially higher still.

Did the yam become bigger while travelling from Benue? Did the tomato acquire a university degree between Kano and Abuja? Of course not. THE JOURNEY ACQUIRED A PRICE.

Transport. Fuel. Bad roads. Vehicle maintenance. Storage. Spoilage. Handling. Market charges. Middlemen. Security risks.
That is the hidden tax between FARM and PLATE. This is why heavily urbanised consumption centres such as Lagos and Abuja cannot solve food affordability simply by telling people to farm more.

They depend enormously on food produced somewhere else. A city can therefore have plenty of food in its markets and STILL have an affordability problem because getting that food there is expensive.

And this is precisely why food logistics deserves to become a much bigger part of Nigeria's food-inflation conversation.

Building roads is food policy. Cold storage is food policy. Rail freight is food policy. Efficient wholesale markets are food policy. Reducing post-harvest losses is food policy.

And Lagos's Fresh Food Hub experiment therefore deserves particularly close examination.
Because Nigeria has a remarkable contradiction: THE FARMER CAN COMPLAIN THAT FOOD IS TOO CHEAP WHILE THE CITY DWELLER COMPLAINS THAT THE SAME FOOD IS TOO EXPENSIVE.

Both may be telling the truth.Somewhere between them, the supply chain ate the difference.

This is a good article in support of bringing back subsidy
I wager that there's a silent nutritional crisis going on in Nigeria's urban centers
Most urban dwellers are having to make do with whatever they can find to eat since most fresh foods are now unaffordable. Consider a family of six; four kids and their parents. Foods like yams, vegetables, fruits might be off their radar. In a bid to survive the great tinubulation, they might even do away with meat, fish, eggs and other proteins. Instead, they'll take to eating low end bony fish in small quantities, cowskin, crayfish and more of cassava flakes and nuts just to survive. Some might take to buying roadside foods like kulikuli and akara and share among themselves just to get by
Terrible.... just terrible

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Kukutente23: 7:53am On Aug 26

Love800:
How can you say 100k cant buy food for a month!

How much do you think can buy food for a family of six in a month

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Sonofgod1990(m): 7:56am On Aug 26

CharlesCNG:
Here is an overlooked part of Nigeria's food crisis: WHERE YOU LIVE can determine how much you pay to eat.

NBS's July 2026 data show urban inflation at 16.12%, compared with only 13.77% in rural areas. Month-on-month, urban prices rose 1.90%; rural prices just 0.78%.

Now leave the statistics office and enter the market.

On August 21, a large yam at Gboko Main Market in food-producing Benue cost about ₦1,200.
At Lugbe Market, Abuja? ₦2,500. Same unit. More than DOUBLE. Medium yam was ₦900 in Gboko and ₦2,000 in Abuja. Rice shows it too. A 50kg bag of Nigerian rice was ₦45,000 in Gboko versus ₦57,000 in Lugbe.

And then comes the tomato. A small basket was recorded at ₦16,000 in Kano's Dawanau/Yan Baka market but ₦30,000 in Lugbe, Abuja. In Lagos, recent tracked prices have been substantially higher still.

Did the yam become bigger while travelling from Benue? Did the tomato acquire a university degree between Kano and Abuja? Of course not. THE JOURNEY ACQUIRED A PRICE.

Transport. Fuel. Bad roads. Vehicle maintenance. Storage. Spoilage. Handling. Market charges. Middlemen. Security risks.
That is the hidden tax between FARM and PLATE. This is why heavily urbanised consumption centres such as Lagos and Abuja cannot solve food affordability simply by telling people to farm more.

They depend enormously on food produced somewhere else. A city can therefore have plenty of food in its markets and STILL have an affordability problem because getting that food there is expensive.

And this is precisely why food logistics deserves to become a much bigger part of Nigeria's food-inflation conversation.

Building roads is food policy. Cold storage is food policy. Rail freight is food policy. Efficient wholesale markets are food policy. Reducing post-harvest losses is food policy.

And Lagos's Fresh Food Hub experiment therefore deserves particularly close examination.
Because Nigeria has a remarkable contradiction: THE FARMER CAN COMPLAIN THAT FOOD IS TOO CHEAP WHILE THE CITY DWELLER COMPLAINS THAT THE SAME FOOD IS TOO EXPENSIVE.

Both may be telling the truth.Somewhere between them, the supply chain ate the difference.

Then you should go back to village

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Sonofgod1990(m): 7:57am On Aug 26

Kukutente23:
How much do you think can buy food for a family of six in a month

Less than 50k can do that
You people should stop exaggerating things

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by malaria(f): 7:58am On Aug 26

MaziObinnaokija:
ALL WILL BE WELL.BETTER DAYS AHEAD

Akuko

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Kukutente23: 8:04am On Aug 26

Sonofgod1990:
Less than 50k can do that
You people should stop exaggerating things

Hmmm
Can you help with a breakdown

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by whatmoreng: 8:17am On Aug 26

Kukutente23:
Hmmm
Can you help with a breakdown

Why are you responding to him?
He is definitely not serious.
50k is not even enough for 1 adult feeding here in Port Harcourt for a month unless you are planning on starving at least 3 days a week .

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by obeegee: 8:19am On Aug 26

The people in the city have more money to pay

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Olaola26: 8:27am On Aug 26

Too much grammar

You what happened on Agbor road ??

Did you see how food supplies stranded and rotten for days ??

Many more like that

Speak 🗣️ to reality not on paper and statistics

Let the government get this right

Farm has been taking over by kidnappers and bad elements

If it continues like then food scarcity will continue

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Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by yinkeys(m): 8:34am On Aug 26

It’ doesn’t feel safe in rural areas
Insecurity at its peak
Some villages have been wiped out

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by MightySparrow: 8:43am On Aug 26

Simple: city life mentality.

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by CharlesCNG(op): 8:44am On Aug 26

Kukutente23:
This is a good article in support of bringing back subsidy
I wager that there's a silent nutritional crisis going on in Nigeria's urban centers
Most urban dwellers are having to make do with whatever they can find to eat since most fresh foods are now unaffordable. Consider a family of six; four kids and their parents. Foods like yams, vegetables, fruits might be off their radar. In a bid to survive the great tinubulation, they might even do away with meat, fish, eggs and other proteins. Instead, they'll take to eating low end bony fish in small quantities, cowskin, crayfish and more of cassava flakes and nuts just to survive. Some might take to buying roadside foods like kulikuli and akara and share among themselves just to get by
Terrible.... just terrible

The subsidy conclusion does not follow. If a family cannot afford eggs, meat or vegetables, why is the solution subsidising petrol for everyone—including wealthy households with several cars and generators?

Nigeria had hunger and expensive food even under subsidy. Targeted cash transfers, cheaper mass transit, school feeding and nutrition support put relief closer to the struggling family without subsidising the rich.

But the nutritional concern is important. If urban families are abandoning protein, fruits and vegetables for cheaper starches, investigate and attack the causes: increase production, irrigation and security; reduce transport costs and post-harvest losses; improve storage and food logistics.
If eggs are expensive, make eggs cheaper. If tomatoes rot between farm and city, fix the supply chain.
A food and nutrition crisis needs a food and nutrition solution—not a blanket petrol subsidy.

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by LZAA: 9:00am On Aug 26

These Agbado minions wee not kee person
Always opening threads to use cunny man style to defend their Sifu's bad governance which has led to hyperinflation hence rise in prices

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by LZAA: 9:02am On Aug 26

whatmoreng:
Why are you responding to him?
He is definitely not serious.
50k is not even enough for 1 adult feeding here in Port Harcourt for a month unless you are planning on starving at least 3 days a week .

Person go think say na lie until dem experience am
That's why these Agbado minions defending bad governance dey scare me cuz na dem dey suffer am pass

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by ZeekrX9: 9:28am On Aug 26

This is not tied to statistics but logic. For instance food items and other home necessities are cheaper in Abuja than in places like Auchi and Ekpoma. REASON: Food items and food generally are bound to be more expensive in areas largely populated by fraudsters (Yahoo boys and girls) because market women and men take advantage of their nonchalance to prices of items to fleece other legitimate income earners. Wherever fraudsters are concentrated, you are disadvantaged. Just know you will feel the brunt of their "non-negotiating" disposition. Note: Politicians dont go to the market in Abuja. Their aides do and they know the drill.

CharlesCNG:
Here is an overlooked part of Nigeria's food crisis: WHERE YOU LIVE can determine how much you pay to eat.

NBS's July 2026 data show urban inflation at 16.12%, compared with only 13.77% in rural areas. Month-on-month, urban prices rose 1.90%; rural prices just 0.78%.

Now leave the statistics office and enter the market.

On August 21, a large yam at Gboko Main Market in food-producing Benue cost about ₦1,200.
At Lugbe Market, Abuja? ₦2,500. Same unit. More than DOUBLE. Medium yam was ₦900 in Gboko and ₦2,000 in Abuja. Rice shows it too. A 50kg bag of Nigerian rice was ₦45,000 in Gboko versus ₦57,000 in Lugbe.

And then comes the tomato. A small basket was recorded at ₦16,000 in Kano's Dawanau/Yan Baka market but ₦30,000 in Lugbe, Abuja. In Lagos, recent tracked prices have been substantially higher still.

Did the yam become bigger while travelling from Benue? Did the tomato acquire a university degree between Kano and Abuja? Of course not. THE JOURNEY ACQUIRED A PRICE.

Transport. Fuel. Bad roads. Vehicle maintenance. Storage. Spoilage. Handling. Market charges. Middlemen. Security risks.
That is the hidden tax between FARM and PLATE. This is why heavily urbanised consumption centres such as Lagos and Abuja cannot solve food affordability simply by telling people to farm more.

They depend enormously on food produced somewhere else. A city can therefore have plenty of food in its markets and STILL have an affordability problem because getting that food there is expensive.

And this is precisely why food logistics deserves to become a much bigger part of Nigeria's food-inflation conversation.

Building roads is food policy. Cold storage is food policy. Rail freight is food policy. Efficient wholesale markets are food policy. Reducing post-harvest losses is food policy.

And Lagos's Fresh Food Hub experiment therefore deserves particularly close examination.
Because Nigeria has a remarkable contradiction: THE FARMER CAN COMPLAIN THAT FOOD IS TOO CHEAP WHILE THE CITY DWELLER COMPLAINS THAT THE SAME FOOD IS TOO EXPENSIVE.

Both may be telling the truth.Somewhere between them, the supply chain ate the difference.

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Redman44(m): 9:33am On Aug 26

Plant vegetables in your compound or garden. Plant fruit trees in your compound e.g pawpaw, Zobo, Orange, Plantain, Banana etc. start a small farm in your compound. Cheers.

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by tunapawizzy: 10:02am On Aug 26

Yam in Gboko 1200
Yam in Abuja 2500
The driver that will drive the Yam to abuja will be paid
The gas that will be used to run the car that will take the Yam to abuja will be bought at 1100 to 1250 per litre
The car that will be used to transport the yam to Abuja will drive on roads that are not good, car owner will factor money he will use to change absorber, etc

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by femi4: 10:18am On Aug 26

CharlesCNG:
Here is an overlooked part of Nigeria's food crisis: WHERE YOU LIVE can determine how much you pay to eat.

NBS's July 2026 data show urban inflation at 16.12%, compared with only 13.77% in rural areas. Month-on-month, urban prices rose 1.90%; rural prices just 0.78%.

Now leave the statistics office and enter the market.

On August 21, a large yam at Gboko Main Market in food-producing Benue cost about ₦1,200.
At Lugbe Market, Abuja? ₦2,500. Same unit. More than DOUBLE. Medium yam was ₦900 in Gboko and ₦2,000 in Abuja. Rice shows it too. A 50kg bag of Nigerian rice was ₦45,000 in Gboko versus ₦57,000 in Lugbe.

And then comes the tomato. A small basket was recorded at ₦16,000 in Kano's Dawanau/Yan Baka market but ₦30,000 in Lugbe, Abuja. In Lagos, recent tracked prices have been substantially higher still.

Did the yam become bigger while travelling from Benue? Did the tomato acquire a university degree between Kano and Abuja? Of course not. THE JOURNEY ACQUIRED A PRICE.

Transport. Fuel. Bad roads. Vehicle maintenance. Storage. Spoilage. Handling. Market charges. Middlemen. Security risks.
That is the hidden tax between FARM and PLATE. This is why heavily urbanised consumption centres such as Lagos and Abuja cannot solve food affordability simply by telling people to farm more.

They depend enormously on food produced somewhere else. A city can therefore have plenty of food in its markets and STILL have an affordability problem because getting that food there is expensive.

And this is precisely why food logistics deserves to become a much bigger part of Nigeria's food-inflation conversation.

Building roads is food policy. Cold storage is food policy. Rail freight is food policy. Efficient wholesale markets are food policy. Reducing post-harvest losses is food policy.

And Lagos's Fresh Food Hub experiment therefore deserves particularly close examination.
Because Nigeria has a remarkable contradiction: THE FARMER CAN COMPLAIN THAT FOOD IS TOO CHEAP WHILE THE CITY DWELLER COMPLAINS THAT THE SAME FOOD IS TOO EXPENSIVE.

Both may be telling the truth.Somewhere between them, the supply chain ate the difference.

Cost of transportation....As goods move farther away from the source with demands so high....expect price to go up

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Emeka71(m): 10:47am On Aug 26

MaziObinnaokija:
ALL WILL BE WELL.BETTER DAYS AHEAD

The answer is so simple and is because of the fact that food is grown less in the city and more in the village.

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Ofekongsk(m): 1:30pm On Aug 26

As you called it, CITY. That's why

CharlesCNG:
Here is an overlooked part of Nigeria's food crisis: WHERE YOU LIVE can determine how much you pay to eat.

NBS's July 2026 data show urban inflation at 16.12%, compared with only 13.77% in rural areas. Month-on-month, urban prices rose 1.90%; rural prices just 0.78%.

Now leave the statistics office and enter the market.

On August 21, a large yam at Gboko Main Market in food-producing Benue cost about ₦1,200.
At Lugbe Market, Abuja? ₦2,500. Same unit. More than DOUBLE. Medium yam was ₦900 in Gboko and ₦2,000 in Abuja. Rice shows it too. A 50kg bag of Nigerian rice was ₦45,000 in Gboko versus ₦57,000 in Lugbe.

And then comes the tomato. A small basket was recorded at ₦16,000 in Kano's Dawanau/Yan Baka market but ₦30,000 in Lugbe, Abuja. In Lagos, recent tracked prices have been substantially higher still.

Did the yam become bigger while travelling from Benue? Did the tomato acquire a university degree between Kano and Abuja? Of course not. THE JOURNEY ACQUIRED A PRICE.

Transport. Fuel. Bad roads. Vehicle maintenance. Storage. Spoilage. Handling. Market charges. Middlemen. Security risks.
That is the hidden tax between FARM and PLATE. This is why heavily urbanised consumption centres such as Lagos and Abuja cannot solve food affordability simply by telling people to farm more.

They depend enormously on food produced somewhere else. A city can therefore have plenty of food in its markets and STILL have an affordability problem because getting that food there is expensive.

And this is precisely why food logistics deserves to become a much bigger part of Nigeria's food-inflation conversation.

Building roads is food policy. Cold storage is food policy. Rail freight is food policy. Efficient wholesale markets are food policy. Reducing post-harvest losses is food policy.

And Lagos's Fresh Food Hub experiment therefore deserves particularly close examination.
Because Nigeria has a remarkable contradiction: THE FARMER CAN COMPLAIN THAT FOOD IS TOO CHEAP WHILE THE CITY DWELLER COMPLAINS THAT THE SAME FOOD IS TOO EXPENSIVE.

Both may be telling the truth.Somewhere between them, the supply chain ate the difference.

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by Love800(m): 8:14pm On Aug 26

Okay its for the family!
Thought was only for a bachelor.

I appreciate.

Kukutente23:
How much do you think can buy food for a family of six in a month

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by CharlesCNG(op): 6:24am On Aug 27

Sonofgod1990:
Then you should go back to village

WHY IS FOOD INFLATION 51% IN ADAMAWA BUT JUST 7% IN NASARAWA? By CharlesCNG

Here is one statistic that should completely change Nigeria's political debate about food prices.

In July 2026, national food inflation was 20.31%. But Adamawa recorded 51.36%. Nasarawa? Just 6.88%.

Borno was actually -0.31%, while Katsina recorded 30.84% and Zamfara 30.65%. Think about that.

SAME PRESIDENT. SAME NAIRA. SAME FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. RADICALLY DIFFERENT FOOD INFLATION.

So how can every discussion about food prices begin and end with: “TINUBU!”

President Tinubu certainly carries enormous responsibility. Abuja controls major national levers: security, interstate roads and rail, fertiliser policy, agricultural finance, dams and irrigation, trade policy and strategic food programmes.

But the figures suggest something equally important: FOOD INFLATION IS NATIONAL, BUT THE FOOD CRISIS IS ALSO LOCAL.

Adamawa's problem is not necessarily Nasarawa's problem.Security differs.Harvests differ. Local production differs. Transport routes differ.

Storage differs. Market structures differ. And GOVERNMENT RESPONSE differs.

Consider Nasarawa. In 2026, 20,160 bags of fertiliser were supplied free to farmers through the Federal Government's Farm Input Support Programme. Another programme is supporting 1,918 rice and cassava farmers, while NG-CARES has provided inputs to another 2,500 small farmers. Federal interventions have also supplied processing and post-harvest equipment.

Does that prove these programmes caused Nasarawa's low 6.88%? NO. Correlation is not causation.

But it gives us something politicians should be investigating instead of merely exchanging insults.
WHAT IS NASARAWA DOING RIGHT? WHAT WENT WRONG IN ADAMAWA? And what can one state learn from another?

Indeed, Adamawa already has a state Food Security Committee focused on productivity, expanding cultivated land and dry-season irrigation. With food inflation now at 51.36%, those policies deserve particularly intense scrutiny.

This should change the 2027 food debate.

Opposition politicians are entitled to hold Tinubu responsible for national economic policy. But governors cannot become spectators pointing towards Abuja while food prices explode in THEIR markets.
If food inflation can be 51% in one state and 7% in another under the SAME President, then clearly the Presidential Villa is not the only variable.

So from now on, when somebody asks: “WHAT IS TINUBU DOING ABOUT FOOD?”

My second question will be: “FAIR ENOUGH. NOW WHAT IS YOUR GOVERNOR DOING?”

Because Nigeria doesn't have one food economy. We have 36 states, the FCT, hundreds of markets and very different local food systems.

Perhaps the smartest national food policy is therefore not one giant Abuja solution.

It is a FEDERAL–STATE partnership: ABUJA fixes the national backbone. GOVERNORS diagnose and attack their local bottlenecks.

And Nigerians judge BOTH by what eventually happens to the price in the market.

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by CharlesCNG(op): 6:35am On Aug 27

Brendaniel:
Have you considered transportation cost, extortion allowed and supported by the government by agberos, bribes to security agencies on the road during transportation, excessive levy and taxes by the government for those selling in the city?

NATIONAL FOOD INFLATION IS HIDING 37 DIFFERENT STORIES By CharlesCNG

Nigeria's July food inflation was 20.31%. That number is serious. In fact, food inflation has risen every month this year, from 8.89% in January to 20.31% in July. But underneath that ONE national number are 37 very different stories.

Adamawa: 51.36%. Katsina: 30.84%. Zamfara: 30.65%. Delta: 28.08%. Lagos: 26.83%.

Now look at the other end: Osun: 12.92%. Ebonyi: 12.79%. Kebbi: 12.50%. Nasarawa: 6.88%. Borno: -0.31%.

Seventeen states were ABOVE the national food-inflation rate. Twenty were BELOW it.

Same President. Same naira. Same Central Bank. Same Federal Government. Yet food inflation ranges from -0.31% to 51.36%.

That should tell us something enormously important before 2027:NIGERIA DOES NOT HAVE ONE FOOD CRISIS.

It has dozens of interconnected LOCAL food problems. Lagos depends heavily on food transported from elsewhere, so logistics, storage and distribution become critical. Benue may produce plenty of food yet struggle with storage, processing, insecurity and getting farmers profitable prices.

Kaduna and Kano face their own production and supply-chain challenges. And Nasarawa's problem can even become the opposite: farmers enjoying good harvests but complaining that produce has become TOO CHEAP locally.

Seasonality differs. Security differs. Harvests differ. Roads differ.Storage differs. Local government policies differ.

Even July alone demonstrates this beautifully. Food prices jumped 17.02% in Adamawa and 13.48% in Lagos.

But they actually FELL 3.68% in Jigawa, 3.67% in Kebbi and 1.85% in Bauchi.

So our political debate needs to mature. Yes, Tinubu must answer for national policy.

The Federal Government controls crucial parts of the food-security architecture: national security, interstate highways and rail, dams and irrigation, agricultural finance, fertiliser policy, trade policy and strategic interventions.

BUT GOVERNORS CANNOT BE SPECTATORS. A governor cannot sit in his state capital, watch food inflation explode in his own markets, then point towards Abuja as though the Presidential Villa sells tomatoes.

States control or influence agriculture programmes, extension services, local markets, feeder roads, storage, land administration and many other parts of the food chain. Therefore, before 2027, whenever somebody asks:

“WHAT IS TINUBU DOING ABOUT FOOD?” Excellent question. But I am adding another: GOVERNOR, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Because Abuja can build the national backbone. But ultimately, food is produced, transported, stored, traded and EATEN somewhere.

Food inflation may be national. THE FIGHT AGAINST IT MUST ALSO BE LOCAL.

CharlesCNG
FOOD PRICE & FOOD SECURITY WATCH

Prices • Policy • Proof

Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by CharlesCNG(op): 6:52am On Aug 27

LZAA:
Person go think say na lie until dem experience am
That's why these Agbado minions defending bad governance dey scare me cuz na dem dey suffer am pass

Call people “Agbado minions” if it avoids discussing policy, but “food is expensive under Tinubu” is a DIAGNOSIS, not a prescription.

The FG is already tackling food security through fertiliser, irrigation, mechanisation, agricultural finance, farm security, strategic reserves, storage, processing and transport infrastructure.
But the battle must increasingly be STATE BY STATE because Nigeria does not have one uniform food problem .
And some are already doing this-Sokoto is distributing 157,800 bags of fertiliser and running subsidised-food interventions;
Nasarawa is supporting farmers with fertiliser, inputs and mechanisation;
Benue is subsidising fertiliser while expanding storage, processing and market linkages;
Lagos is attacking its peculiar logistics problem through Fresh Food Hubs.

So yes, food remains too expensive. Criticise Tinubu and judge his results. But Obi, Atiku and others seeking his job must answer the bigger question: WHAT WILL YOU DO BETTER?
Farm security? Fertiliser? Irrigation? Storage? Transport? Post-harvest losses? Farm-to-city price gaps? At what cost and with what measurable results?

“Tinubu has failed” is a campaign slogan, NOT a food-security policy. PUT YOUR ALTERNATIVE BESIDE HIS. LET NIGERIANS COMPARE.

This is basically my problem with the opposition. They are not discussing POLICY.

If all you do is tell Nigerians what Tinubu has done wrong without explaining precisely what YOU will do differently and why your alternative will produce better results, then you are merely campaigning against Tinubu — you are not presenting an alternative government.

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Re: Why Does Food Cost More In The City? by LZAA: 7:10am On Aug 27

CharlesCNG:
Call people “Agbado minions” if it avoids discussing policy, but “food is expensive under Tinubu” is a DIAGNOSIS, not a prescription.

The FG is already tackling food security through fertiliser, irrigation, mechanisation, agricultural finance, farm security, strategic reserves, storage, processing and transport infrastructure.
But the battle must increasingly be STATE BY STATE because Nigeria does not have one uniform food problem .
And some are already doing this-Sokoto is distributing 157,800 bags of fertiliser and running subsidised-food interventions;
Nasarawa is supporting farmers with fertiliser, inputs and mechanisation;
Benue is subsidising fertiliser while expanding storage, processing and market linkages;
Lagos is attacking its peculiar logistics problem through Fresh Food Hubs.

So yes, food remains too expensive. Criticise Tinubu and judge his results. But Obi, Atiku and others seeking his job must answer the bigger question: WHAT WILL YOU DO BETTER?
Farm security? Fertiliser? Irrigation? Storage? Transport? Post-harvest losses? Farm-to-city price gaps? At what cost and with what measurable results?

“Tinubu has failed” is a campaign slogan, NOT a food-security policy. PUT YOUR ALTERNATIVE BESIDE HIS. LET NIGERIANS COMPARE.

This is basically my problem with the opposition. They are not discussing POLICY.

If all you do is tell Nigerians what Tinubu has done wrong without explaining precisely what YOU will do differently and why your alternative will produce better results, then you are merely campaigning against Tinubu — you are not presenting an alternative government.

Policy?
POLICY!!!!!
The Agbado sifu practically rejected subsidy, removed it without a timeline and cushions for the populace,criticsed the government at the time relentlessly and after destroying the economy you are asking about policy?
You are joking
Sha earn your 3k

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