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Soaring food prices dampen Ramadan spirits in Nigeria
France24 ^
| March
Posted on 03/09/2024 4:36:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Lagos (AFP) – The holy fasting month of Ramadan begins early next week in Nigeria, with the worst economic crisis in a generation leaving many in Africa's most populous Muslim country struggling to buy food.
With food inflation at around 35 percent, worshippers taking part in Friday prayers at the central mosque in Lagos told AFP they were barely able to provide for their families.
"Some people already started fasting because they can't afford to eat," said Owoyemi Sherifent Mojisola, 54, in the mosque in Nigeria's economic capital.
"Everything is expensive at the moment."
Many poor Nigerians have had to skip meals and give up products such as meat, eggs and milk.
"It's really hard," said Idihabom Nafisah Oyebanji, a 42-year-old mother at the central mosque, who said she was unable to afford her favourite Ramadan foods, including milk and melon.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islamists; nigeria; ramadan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Are there any BRANDON flights from nigeria?
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posted on
03/09/2024 4:39:32 AM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
wow, out of damns to give.
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posted on
03/09/2024 4:46:34 AM PST
by
ronniesgal
(have you even tried to mind your own business?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
03/09/2024 4:47:51 AM PST
by
xp38
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Welcome to Wal-Mart, Publix, Winn-Dixie, etc.
To: ronniesgal
Some of us are not overly concerned with “Ramadan spirits in Nigeria.”
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posted on
03/09/2024 4:56:11 AM PST
by
Blennos
( Byaasea)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Worst economic crisis in a generation leaving many in Africa's most populous Muslim country struggling to buy food. The next wave of humanitarian refugees to come to America.
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posted on
03/09/2024 4:56:36 AM PST
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Soaring food prices dampen Ramadan spirits in Nigeria.OH NO..!! QUICK Brandon, send them a trillion dollars..! (spit)
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posted on
03/09/2024 4:57:44 AM PST
by
unread
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Soaring food prices dampen Ramadan spirits in Nigeria
Well at least this means they won’t bother abducting hundreds of Christian children at a time if they can’t feed them, right?
…Right?
*checks notes from a couple days ago*
..oh
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:00:55 AM PST
by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: Blennos
Ramadan is the oddest fasting period in the world when you worry about food prices.
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:03:04 AM PST
by
xp38
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:05:16 AM PST
by
DAC21
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Small animal livestock auction near me on Feb 25th.
$3/lb on the hoof for baby goats. I've seen it close to $4/lb. It will probably go higher closer to Easter when Hispanics want their cabrito for Easter Sunday dinner.
Some people prefer them to not be intact.
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:07:05 AM PST
by
Pollard
(WX - currently nasty with a chance of getting better before next nasty)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Where’s the UN WFP when you need it?
F UN
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:08:18 AM PST
by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Might not be so bad if they stop slaughtering Christian farmers.
To: Pollard
Mar 26, 2023
Good little side gig. 30 goats x 50lbs x $4/lb = $6000. This is in very rural MO.
Some goat farms down in TX deal in hundreds of head. If MO cattlemen were smart, they'd run goats with their cattle.
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:22:54 AM PST
by
Pollard
(WX - currently nasty with a chance of getting better before next nasty)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If soaring food prices dampen your spirits during a fasting month, you must be a mohammedan.
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:27:14 AM PST
by
bwest
To: Oldeconomybuyer
They’re complaining about the cost of food when they are in for a month of fasting.
OK..........
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:37:40 AM PST
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
We should have never stepped foot on that continent.
No industry, no medicine.
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:46:39 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: Blennos
Food’s so expensive people can’t afford fasting.
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:47:58 AM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: metmom
It’s hard to get into the Ramadan spirit these days, with everything being so commercialized.
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posted on
03/09/2024 5:50:52 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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