Those who spoke with The Guardian described the festive season as a bleak one in terms of sales, as the economic reality of growing inflation, badly affected families, which constrained them from making purchases. I don’t think the experience was limited to only rice sellers, it cut across foodstuff sellers. “In my household, we have a list of people we usually give rice and other commodities for the festive season. But the last festive season was different; we were only able to give one person, which was unusual. More so, a lot of people did not receive their salaries in December, some have not even received theirs till now, how were they expected to celebrate the festive season?”

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2020 04:30 UTC