{"id":176626,"date":"2024-07-15T20:55:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-high-cost-of-living-bites-citizens-hard\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T20:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:55:29","slug":"nigeria-high-cost-of-living-bites-citizens-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-high-cost-of-living-bites-citizens-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: High Cost of Living Bites Citizens Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em><em>The worst economic crisis in decades in Nigeria has citizens sacrificing to make ends meet. Economic reforms are on the cards but for now medicines, food and other basic commodities are priced beyond the reach of many.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Toyin Ogundeko, a resident of Lagos and a caterer by profession, lives with asthma. Her son has the condition too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Medicines have become so expensive in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/nigeria\/t-18943620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria<\/a> that they can&#8217;t afford the inhalers they need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Amid a worsening economic crisis, Ogundeko isn&#8217;t sure how they will get&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407150454.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst economic crisis in decades in Nigeria has citizens sacrificing to make ends meet. Economic reforms are on the cards but for now medicines, food and other basic commodities are priced beyond the reach of many. Toyin Ogundeko, a resident of Lagos and a caterer by profession, lives with asthma. Her son has the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650415:797eed61818c8aff57f4bbd5b103b0e1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11658,7604,6629,9309,6184,7741,257,4687,393,254],"class_list":["post-176626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bites","tag-citizens","tag-cost","tag-hard","tag-high","tag-living","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650415:797eed61818c8aff57f4bbd5b103b0e1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}