Nigerians have been noticed of their numbers at prevalent markets in Lagos as they made last-minute purchases forward of the Christmas party on Wednesday.
Visits to those markets confirmed that the costs of foodstuffs and alternative pieces had higher in comparison to final future, or even final age, Nigerians have been nonetheless purchasing what they may.
On the Ijora frozen meals marketplace, the cost of a carton of turkey jumped from N44,000 final Thursday to N57,000 on Monday.
A carton of hen used to be retailing at about N84,000, and a sack of croaker fish used to be bought for N120,000.
There have been a whole lot of consumers purchasing garments and such on the prevalent Tejuosho Marketplace, even if probably the most situation bookshops had closed for the Yule.
It used to be on the Tejuosho Marketplace that The PUNCH correspondent found out that some point-of-sale operators had devised manner to keep away from paying the N50 digital switch levy on transactions above N10,000.
Chickening out N9,999 in lieu of N10,000, a POS operator, Amaze Daniel, defined that used to be her manner of averting the levy.
“This way, I won’t have to pay that N50. They want to kill us. The machine will collect its charges, but they will still charge me the electronic transfer levy. See, ehn, N1 will not kill me,” she argued.
Level-of-sale operators raised their fees in early December in series with the implementation of the Digital Cash Switch Levy of N50 through the Federal Inland Income Products and services charged on any digital transactions of N10,000 and above.
On the Industry Honest marketplace alongside the Lagos-Badagry Throughway, there have been a accumulation of industrial actions as consumers purchased cosmetics, hair, make-up, perfumes, and foodstuffs.
The costs of onions ranged from N1000 to N3000 for little to medium-sized items.
Weighty yellow bell peppers have been N2000 a work, the similar with the crimson ones. A ball of cabbage used to be priced from N1000 upwards. A paint bucket of tomatoes used to be N6000 inside of Industry Honest, and part of it used to be N3500.
Cayenne pepper and the Habanero pepper, popularly recognized in Yoruba as ‘ata rodo,’ are nonetheless bought at N500 for between 10 and 15 items.
Some are living broiler chickens bought for N20,000 and N18,000 each and every, and 2 layers bought for N17,000.
A buyer, Nneka, described the 2 layers at N17,000 as a greater do business in in comparison to the alternative one.
“This time last year, I would have been using that N20,000 to buy two of the boilers, but here we are,” she added.
Are living turkey on the Iyana-Iba marketplace went for N31,000.
A bucket of tomatoes bought for N7000, day the similar measurement of cayenne pepper, habanero pepper, and ‘tatashe’ bought for N5000 each and every. As of Saturday, tomatoes bought for N4000, and the peppers ranged from N2500 to N3500 on the similar marketplace.
Weighty yellow bell peppers nonetheless bought at N2000 a work, the similar because the crimson ones, however inexperienced peppers have been less expensive. A large-sized inexperienced pepper used to be bought for N500.
On the marketplace, a little basket of tomatoes bought for N15,000, and the pepper used to be N12,000.
Additionally, delivery fares have higher. Mile 2 to Ketu-Mile 12, which impaired to be N700, used to be now N800, with a driving force even announcing he had gathered N500 for Oshodi to Ketu-Mile 12 on Monday.
From Mile 2 to Idumota, it used to be N1000 on Tuesday morning; the ordinary value used to be N700.
Iyana-Iba to Mile 2, which impaired to be between N300 and N400, used to be now N500.