No relief for Nigerians as sky-high food prices bite harder
Standing behind a parked vehicle in front of her shop loaded with some food commodities, 58-year-old Nkiruka Romanus wipes her face with the back of her palms to clean a simmering sweat.
It was a hot Saturday afternoon in late January and Mrs Romanus recalled how she and her late husband started the foodstuff business with N15,000 in 1994.
Mrs Romanus, popularly known as Mama Chikwado, has been in the business of selling food items such as beans, rice, flour, and sugar among others at the Olojudo market, Ido…