Yam sellers at Yan Doya, a popular market in Kaduna, have been lamenting low patronage because of high cost of yam which goes for as high as N10,000 per tuber. Traders say 100 yam tubers will cost a prospective buyer N1 million, reports Daily Trust. Our correspondent, however, reports that a small-sized tuber cost is […]
•Foodstuff A newly released by the National Bureau of Statistics has indicated a rise in prices of Beans, Tomatoes, Irish potatoes, Garri, Yam and other food items in June 2024. This is as the Bureau few days ago, said headline inflation for June increased to 34.19 per cent relative to the May 2024 headline inflation […]
Many Nigerians in Abuja and environs who cannot afford a whole tuber of yam have resorted to buying it in pieces as prices of foodstuff prices soar. A visit to some markets in the FCT by our correspondent today showed that yam sellers, desirous to make sales now cut yams in bits to sell to […]
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