As Christmas and end of the year festivities roll in, Nigerians are starting to fear that they may be unable to afford a pot of their favourite meal – jollof rice. A September 2021 survey of Jollof Index by the SBM Intelligence shows that the cost of making a pot of jollof rice for a family of five remains high across the country.
Jollof rice index
In September, a pot of jollof rice cost about 5% more to make – on average – at N8007.50 ($19.41), compared with an average cost of N7,618 ($18.47) in Q2. In Nyanya, a satellite town of Abuja, the nation’s capital, the cost rose to N10,050.
However, according to Temiloluwa Anjonri, food prices have since gone up. “One kilogram of rice that I bought at N1,500 now sells at N2,000, and that’s just rice. We haven’t added other commodities like peppers, oil and even chicken. Don’t even get me started on chicken. I bought a kilo and a half of
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