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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Food shortages when everyone is fasting?
That's what she said.
The poor dears!
Maybe if they massacre some more Christians food prices will go down.
World wide threat———branDUHnomics!
count me in as not concerned at ALL.
flood their water supply with birth control.
>> If MO cattlemen were smart, they’d run goats with their cattle.
Fencing?
“Many poor Nigerians have had to skip meals and give up products such as meat, eggs and milk.”
This is what the world’s elites want ... enjoy your bugs and algae diets.
>>>Ramadan is the oddest fasting period in the world when you worry about food prices.
There’s studies were muslims gain weight during & after Ramadan. So what’s the sacrifice?
Is this the latest Nigerian scam?
Ramadan Bombathon. F**k em.
Bacon is cheap.
**They’re complaining about the cost of food when they are in for a month of fasting.
OK..........**
Yeah, switching from eating during the day, to eating at night, is such a huge sacrifice and humbling of self.....
The holy FASTING month of Ramadan. Perhaps I haven’t received the email that “fasting” now means stuffing your face during these hard economic times of grocery inflation.
They won’t try to escape if they have lots of room and food. One or two hot wires wouldn’t hurt though. Mine are free range and don’t go very far and come home every night at dusk.
Sheep & goats tend to braze VERY close to the ground.
That means it takes longer for grass to get back up to a razing depth for cattle.
Here, the problem isn’t keeping the goats *in*, rather keeping the coyotes *out*.
If you’re fasting you don’t need food. That’s the way to beat food prices.
I thought they fasted during Ramadan?
Drop some Skittles on them. Mom
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