It is no news that onion prices in Lagos markets has shot up by over a hundred percent. This latest development in the food markets has hit close to home for Lagosians, especially residents of Ikeja.
Tongues are wagging and people say that ladies are becoming best friends with the Hausa traders to get favorable prices for onions. Some are shocked and amused when they hear these ladies calling the onion sellers baby or sweetheart, a practice which has erupted as a result of the hike in onion prices.
Displeased with this extra cost, a lot of people are scraping onions from their daily meals. So many delicacies that are usually cooked with the spice are now being made without a slice of onion.
Cooking with onions these days is seen as a luxury. The popular opinion is that the concurrent climb in fuel price has also contributed to higher onion prices. One also wonders if this is a side effect of the clashes that occurred during the end sars protests.
Ironically, workers are still being paid their old salaries. The fight for a new minimum wage could begin soon keeping the Labor union leaders at logger heads with the government. Everything these days are at exceptionally high costs. Would prices of food stuff and other things hiked ever be reverted? What goes up must come down, right? No?
– Oluseyi Ojumu
