Onions and the Nigerian Market

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It's your favorite girl @debbie-ese 😍
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It is that day of the week when most people have time to do shopping of some of the things that is needed in their households. Monday through Friday is always a busy day for most people, including me and the only day I can run around to purchase my food items and groceries is on Saturdays.

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Today, I will be sharing with you the language a common vegetable crop that is consumed in the world and in Nigeria is speaking in the market at the moment. I'm referring to onions. Onions are common in most local Nigerian foods and it's quite hard to prepare a food in Nigeria without adding onions.
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From egg sauce, to noodles, to stew, to soups, to fried rice, naija jollof rice and so on. There's almost any food that you can think of that onion is not important. Yet, the price of onion is as expensive as gold.
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I priced a basket of onions to be #1,200 ($2.92) from the man you can see that I'm conversing with in the pictures shared in the post. I tried to negotiate with him to reduce the price but he was lamenting about the cost of purchasing a bag of onion and transportation. His reactions showed he cannot even reduce the price a bit. I tried to do sakara for him - that is, I didn't as if I was not interested in buying anymore and stepped back a bit hoping he will call me back but baba didn't even care. I had to turn back myself and buy half basket at the rate of #600 ($1.46).
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It is not totally a bad deal compared to how it was some months ago when the price was so high and it was not even in the market for purchase.

Thank you for your time lovelies.
The post is originally written by me 💕@debbie-ese💕

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