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The price of a crate of eggs has almost doubled since January to 1,500 naira ($4).
At the popular food markets in Ile-Epo and Agege on Lagos mainland, traders and customers are unhappy about the soaring prices. You come to the market, just like the way you saw me pricing things, you no longer get them the same way we used to buy again. Even them themselves they keep complaining, they buy it very costly , said Hope Moses, a private sector worker.
As well as inflation, a rise in joblessness has left a third of Nigeria s workforce unemployed at the end of 2020, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The World Poverty Clock reports that at the latest count, Nigeria had 43 percent of its population or about 90 million people living below the poverty line of less than $1.90 per day.