Meanwhile petrol queues have continued to get longer and prices getting higher.
At a local road-side market in Ejigbo, a suburb in the city of Lagos, trader Arewa Olalekan is repackaging pasta into smaller, more affordable portions to cater for customers who cannot purchase a full pack.
When President Bola Tinubu took office more than a year ago, he quickly removed some fuel subsidies and devalued the naira and later increased electricity prices, actions that have sent inflation spiraling and eroding incomes. Religious clerics, traditional rulers and other prominent Nigerians have joined the government in discouraging young people from embarking on the protests, fearing that a Kenya-style protest will wreak havoc on the economy, a thought process that Lagos resident Adegoke Ajoke agrees with.
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