Garri, a dominant food in Nigeria, is becoming unaffordable for most homes in Akwa Ibom State.
The price of garri, one of the most routinely consumed and dominant foods in Nigeria, has witnessed over a hundred per cent increase within the last three years in Akwa Ibom state.
Processed from cassava, the flakes can be consumed raw with water, sugar (and milk and groundnut by people with relatively greater means). It is also used to make eba, eaten in households and sold in restaurants all over the country.
Opeyemi Adeyemi works with one of the big finance companies in Nigeria. He had a pay cut due to the lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic. “To keep your job during this period, a pay cut is a relief, as thousands were fired,” Mr Adeyemi, a 42-year-old finance expert who lives at Obalende, on Lagos Island, said.
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Pyongyang hunkers down to explore next move
Posted : 2021-04-04 16:47
By Nam Hyun-woo
With its most recent missile launches further agitating international society, North Korea is becoming even more reclusive, maintaining its border closure and severing diplomatic ties with Malaysia.
North Korea analysts say a series of recent moves hint at Pyongyang s growing efforts to limit information outflow and international accesses to the regime in order to prepare for its next moves against the ongoing international pressure on the Kim Jong-un regime.
The United Nations last month said the world body had no international staff left in North Korea, after the two last remaining World Food Programme staff left Pyongyang in late March.