Mrs Olabisi Oluwatoyin Moradeyo, an outdoor caterer, has devised a means. “I simply ask my clients to buy their ingredients themselves while I just come to do the cooking,” she told Woman’s Own without mincing words. “I simply don’t know any other way of coping at a time like this. How can one buy tomatoes and pepper worth over N100,000? Will any body holding a party pay for that?

It is incredible how tomato, an essential in most Nigerian delicacies, has become quite a luxury—even more expensive than Premium Motor Spirits (popularly known as). With N145, what you get is about three small-sized pieces of tomatoes as each now sells for N50.

Usually, they fill them with preservatives to prevent molding. The can itself isn’t 100% safe. There are three types of spoilage in food: spoilage within the food itself, spoilage within the food and its container, and then there is spoilage within the food and the environment. That is where the microbial contamination comes in. The cans themselves are usually coated in chemicals and the tin itself is made with aluminium. During transportation and handling, there are possibilities of the tins bending and when it bends, the interior coating will get compromised and the food will react directly with the aluminium or the iron.

MY husband left me a few years ago when we were living abroad. I came home one day to find a letter telling me he’d gone. I later found out that he’d been seeing someone else for some time. We had two kids then under 10 years old. We’d been married for 12 years and had always been great friends.

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