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At the New Market, Enugu, a 50kg bag of rice, which sold for N35,000 a month ago, went for between N45,000 and N50,000 on Saturday depending on the brand. A bucket of corn, which sold for N1,500 in April and May, exchanged for N2,000, while a 25-litre keg of palm oil exchanged for N32,000 instead of N25,000.
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EKITI State Government on Wednesday ordered roadside traders in Ado Ekiti, the State capital, to relocate to the approved markets in the city.
The Commissioner for Information, Akin Omole, said the directive was for the people’s safety from avoidable accidents, improved hygiene in market places and to forestall preventable outbreak of diseases.
Omole, in a statement in Ado Ekiti titled, EKSG bans roadside trading, relocates traders to approved markets’, bemoaned the consequences of roadside trading, which he listed to include “avoidable accidents with attendant loss of lives, unhygienic market environments with health hazards, unnecessary damage of roads, needless traffic congestion, unkempt view and increase in crime rate”.