Day: February 24, 2024

‘Transport fare terrible, garri no longer snacks’- Nigerians weep, lament economic hardship

…employ different coping strategies As the nation’s economy bits unrelentingly, Nigerians are devising different ‘structural adjustment strategies’ to keep body and soul together, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. A cross-section of respondents, who spoke with NAN in Ibadan on Friday, said they had resorted to rationing their meagre resources amidst other coping mechanisms. A […]

Energy crisis: Petrol queues get longer in Lagos, environs

Despite the efforts of NNPC Ltd to flood the domestic market with petrol, long queues remained at many filling stations in Lagos and environs, yesterday. The company had attributed the emergence of queues to distribution hitches, which were further worsened by the demand of Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO for settlement of freight […]

Subsidising religious pilgrimage, irresponsible

AMIDST the escalating cost-of-living crisis that has made basic food items unaffordable to millions of Nigerians, it is economic irresponsibility for lawmakers to demand that the Nigerian government spend state funds to subsidise religious pilgrimages. With the naira depreciating daily and is near the N2,000 per $1 point, the national debt stock at N87.9 trillion […]

Love turned sour: How jilted lovers take fatal risks, commit suicide

Amarachi Okeh writes about how broken relationships have left many lovers devastated and some with fatal consequences Cupid’s arrow struck Tamunotonye Pere and Joy, 13 years after their innocent friendship that began on a mobile social network, 2go, blossomed into a beautiful love story in late 2022. “It was not like anybody asked anyone out. It […]

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