Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi

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131 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Latin lessons: the Donroe-doctrine boost · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

I personally love it.

In the southwest of Nigeria, we love it super spicy.

When I was in uni, not in Nigeria, I actually used to make jalof all the time and kind of get Nigerians and Ghanaian students together, and we'd gossip over a bit of jalof.

It became my thing.

I love it.

And it's kind of iconic now to this part of West Africa.

Just how expensive is it now?

Well, for many families it's become too expensive.

And that's kind of the point.

It's transformed how and what they're able to eat because of how expensive these ingredients have become.

So I spoke with one of the shoppers at the market who told me about the cost of rice alone.

to put that in context with the other ingredients, so the tomatoes, the peppers, the onions, and everything else, a pot of jalof for a family of five can now go for around 30,500 naira.

So that's about 22 US dollars.

And for context, that's 40% of the monthly minimum wage on just one dish.

Well the vendors at the market say that they have to charge that much to cover their costs, which have skyrocketed since the war in Iran began.

I spoke to Precious, a vegetable vendor at the market.

She said that she buys rice from a supplier in Lagos and in order to get that transported to Abuja, she has to pay the truck driver per carton of rice.

So that adds up.

In fact, the 20% jump in the cost of jalof since the start of the war in Iran comes mostly from diesel costs of the lorries that are moving the tomatoes, the peppers, and the rice and everything else from the farmers and the suppliers to the markets.

Now, because most of the jalof ingredients in Nigeria are farmed locally, the bad roads and the bad weather also add to those spikes.

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