NIGERIA-HUNGER/PROTESTS (FEATURE, PIX):FEATURE-'I can't remember the last time we had dinner': hunger in Nigeria
Protesters march at a vigil in Lagos on August 9th. Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and is struggling with its worst cost-of-living crisis in years. Photograph: Fawaz Oyedeji/AFPBola Adeshiyan last ate 16 hours ago and she is hungry. To take her mind off the ache in her stomach, she leaves her tiny one-bedroom flat and walks around the bustling streets of her neighbourhood in Lagos, Nigeria ’s commercial capital.
Adeshiyan earns 10,000 naira a week as a cook but it’s not enough to cover the weekly groceries for her family.‘People are horrified’: Moscow turns to reluctant conscripts to defend Kursk After he took office in May last year, President Bola Tinubu cancelled fuel and electricity subsidies, and devalued the naira against the dollar to attract investment and save money for infrastructure projects.
Esther said she spends half of the 60,000 naira she earns every month cleaning bathrooms at a school in the wealthy suburb of Lekki on transport costs that have tripled since petrol prices rose from 165 naira per litre to 600 naira after the subsidy cuts.“After buying a tin of rice, a tin of beans and some tomatoes, what is left is to buy gas to cook it. We need to eat first before I can recharge electricity,” she said in her darkened apartment.
Of the 55 million people facing crisis levels of food security in west Africa this year, 32 million are in Nigeria, up from 25 million in 2023, Stevenson said. On August 4th, he said the government was ramping up spending on infrastructure projects, had started a loan scheme for university students and was building thousands of housing units across the 36 states.
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