Thursday, July 2, 2026

Oshodi market

June 23, 2026

Lagos shuts Oshodi market over attack on sanitation officers

The commissioner did not state when the market would be reopened.

Lagos market
December 7, 2025

Lagos traders struggle, count their losses as styrofoam disappears in markets

Traders have continued to count their losses about five months after the Lagos government banned styrofoam products.

styrofoam
June 2, 2024

Dull face jumped from N500 to N700; taffeta N800 to N1,100; thread N500 to N1,000; Nigerians change fashion style as Tinubu’s inflation bites harder

Dull face and Taffeta, sold for N500 and N800, respectively, now sell for N700 and N1,100, while a pack of thread, which sold for 500, now sells for N800 to N1,000, depending on the brand.

MODELS ON NIGERIAN FASHION RUNWAY
November 6, 2021

SPECIAL: How young Igbo traders toil for career break under slippery ‘boy-boy’ system

Experts urged promoters of the apprenticeship system to scale up to industrialisation as against mere trading.