Easter: Traders, buyers lament high cost of commodities, scarcity of funds

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Traders, business owners and residents of Osogbo, the Osun State capital have raised alarm over the high cost of consumables ahead of the Easter

A visit to Igbona, Akindeko, Ayegbaju, Olode and Oja-Oba markets within Osogbo indicated that business is going as usual even as the cost of food items has surged.

“It has been one challenge or the other. I wonder when all these will end? Probably when Bola Ahmed Tinubu is sworn-in as President on May 29!” “We all know that the government policy of the Naira redesign did not help matters at all. Even with the directive given by the Central Bank of Nigeria to commercial banks to make available the old Naira, cash is still scarce.A restaurant manager, Felicia Chinedu explained that having expensive festive seasons has always been a thing with Nigerians.

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