Enugu residents have jettisoned their kerosene stoves, opting for charcoal stoves instead due to the high cost of kerosene, which currently sells for between N1,350 and N1,600 per litre.

A market survey on charcoal on Tuesday in Enugu showed that many people preferred using charcoal for cooking due to its affordable price.

A charcoal seller in Garki Market, Grace Umeh, said that although the price of charcoal had risen from N5,000 to N8,000 per sack, patronage had continued to soar.

Ms Umeh said the increase in patronage was due to the fact that an average family of five could use up to 20 litres of kerosene in a month for cooking.

“So, the family spends over N20,000 on kerosene in a month. On the other hand, a bag of charcoal will last for two months, no matter the pressure of use, for the same size of family,’’ she said.

Another seller at Mayor Market, Oby Okafor, said that most families were buying the commodity in large quantities due to the high cost of kerosene and other energy sources.

“We have continued to experience good and profitable business for some time now in this charcoal business,” Ms Okafor said.

Christiana Ozor, a charcoal dealer at Achara Layout, said that she now sells more than two bags a day due to increased patronage.

Some buyers said that using charcoal for cooking had saved them a lot of money.

Gilbert Nnamdi, a father of four, said his friend had introduced him to a new charcoal stove, which had helped him reduce the amount he spent on kerosene.

“With only N200 charcoal my wife can cook a pot of soup and a pot of rice for the family no matter the quantity of the food. This new charcoal stove does not take time to catch fire and does not bring out smoke while cooking with it,” he said.

Another charcoal user, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that she had been using charcoal since the increase in the price of kerosene.

“I stopped using kerosene when the price increased to N900 and because I am afraid of using cooking gas, I quickly opted for charcoal as a means of energy cooking source,” she said.

Food vendors are not left out in the rush for charcoal because they can no longer afford the prices of kerosene and cooking gas.

A restaurant owner, Ijeoma Dim, explained that the soaring price of kerosene and cooking gas had suddenly made charcoal popular.

Ofor Anyawu added that charcoal sellers are now doing brisk business due to the price increase of other cooking energy sources.

Mr Anyawu called on the government to make all cooking energy sources affordable and available for the masses, especially in the face of the country’s economic challenges.

https://gazettengr.com/tinubus-inflation-enugu-residents-turn-to-charcoal-stove-as-kerosene-prices-surge/

better than ikulokan

This is still Genesis by the time we get to Matthew all man eyes go clear.

People are actually passing through a lot

Vissionless Tinubu change agenda/Bad Economic polices has destroyed Nigeria Economy.

TINUBU'S AGENDA IS GOING
ON SUCCESSFULLY AS WE ALL CAN
PERCEIVE.

1. Petrol from N97(GEJ)-780k - in most
other places over N810

2. Augmentin maleria Drug(GEJ)1200-
57,000 Tinubu

3. Bread from 500(GEJ) to 1800 Tinubu

4. DStv/Go tv subscription Hike twice in let's than 4 months

5. Rice(foreign) from 10k-70(Local) a bag
painter 6k-7k

6. Kerosene from 120(GEJ) naira to 1500 and above .

7. Wike/Fubara's Rivers state crisis under his watch

8. Nigeria Lost 20trillion in just 9months in tinubus medical tourism/private visits in office

8. Kano state Emir tussle under his watch

9. Garri from N260(GEJ) to N4000 per paint.

10. Sugar 250(GEJ) 1500


11. Electricity charge from N3000 to
N17000 per month even when not
available

12. Scarcity of money in all sphere of life,
yet abundantly available if one is a
Tinubu's son/ groups owambe.

13. Killings from few individuals to whole
communities being wiped out

14. Police/military roadblocks from 1 per
40km to 2 per 3km

15. Crude oil illegal bunkering from
10,000 barrels pd to 2000,000 barrels pd.

16. Constant industrial actions by many
organisations(NLC)

17. From the sack of few workers to the
sack of thousands of workers.

(Guinness announces plan to leave Nigeria after 75 years as Tinubu’s inflation wreaks economic havoc)

Nigeria Lost over 16000 Doctors/Nurses to abroad (poor working conditions and package) over Tinubu's/Apc poor handling([/b]Minister of Health)
https://punchng.com/japa-nigeria-lost-16000-doctors-in-five-years-minister/

([b]GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria shut down after 51 years )

List of some products GSK owns...

Augmentin -#57,000

Seretide - 76k

Xthromax 250mg - 15k

Vitamin c 100mg -8500

Ampiclox Beecham -#36000

Amoxil Beecham - #23,000

Andrew’s Liver Salt #1500

Ventolin Inhaler - #28,000

Zinnat Tablet - 27k

Voltaren Emugel -

Betnovate and cream -

Betnovate C cream -

Locazade Boost -1k

Sensodyn paste - 5k-7k

Otrivin Nasal Drop -

Duodart -

Avamys Spray - 37k

Xyzal -

Amongst others!!! Now Expensive.

(Heritage bank shut Down)

(Lazarpay shut Down)

(54Gene– 54Gene shut down )
(MABISCO Biscuit shut down)
(Sanofi-Aventis Nigeria Ltd)
(Equinor Nigeria Energy Company (ENEC)
(Bolt Food shut down)
(Procter & Gamble (P&G) shut down)
(Jumia Foods shut down)
(Louis Carter Industries shut down)
(Moak Enterprises shut down)
(Tower Aluminium shut down)
(Technoflex Company Limited shut down)
(Evans Medicals shut down)
(Multi-Trex Integrated Foods Plc shut down)

16.SSCE/JAMB rate of failure from 20% to
over 85%

17. Trust, love and unity among citizens
from substantial to zero

18. Misappropriation of funds from
Millions of Naira to Trillions of
DOLLARS or TRILLIONS of naira

19. Budget implementation from 40% to
less than 20% Per year

20. Roads from potholes to huge craters
and cut-offs

21. Economy from worse in Africa to
greatest in Africa on paper, but the
masses from poor to poorest

22. Defection of polititians from a few
tens to hundreds of persons, in some
cases thousands from one party to the
other. Nigerian soldiers now defect to
other countries

23. Transport fares, from a few
hundreds of Naira to several thousand of
Naira, on both air and road networks

24. Bribe takings from only police, now
includes all authorities, soldiers inclusive

25. ATM charges from zero to N150 per
transaction

26. New English phrase called 'Tactical
Manoeuvre' when soldiers are
deliberately dispatched with low grade
weapons to be killed by a well armed
"Herdsman"

27. Bribery scandal from few to
substantial

28. Police pension scam

29. Beans from 400-9000 painter

30. Cement from 1300-8000

31. Tomatoes from 3500-130k a basket

32. Yahaya Bello stole 80Billion of Kogis money

33. 17 generals killed under his watch in delta

34. Ram from 25k(GEJ) 150k-1million

35. Handling Herdsman/boko haram with kid gloves
only to report that the nation is winning
on insurgents.

36. Election ballot box snatching and grabbing all over Lagos/Rivers state

37. Lagos calabar highway worth trillions of dollars awarded to Tinubu's ally

38. 3.4bn missing under his watch in let's than 4months(SERAP sues Tinubu over alleged missing $3.4bn IMF loan)

39 Sweet National anthem changed to what I don know

May God give us the wisdom to vote the old fools out of office, and send him packing from
Aso-rock, to Osun state where he
came aboard our ship, come 2027

What did you expect from tinubu government tinubu is fraud

Divide this country now.

Tinubu has COMPLETELY finished this country.

The billionaires lol.
Tinubu sef

Charcoal is very healthy.

Tinubu policy don cripple majority of us. Purchasing power don go. Ordinary bathing soap price now is enough to cook food shop under Sai Baba.

Are you sure this is happening in the SE?. Billionaires could not afford kerosene and cooking gas?, Lol. The igwe must hear this.

Na hardship make Enugu people boycott cooking Gas? So na Kerosene and Charcoal them dey use cook for Enugu? This clearly show the magnitude of hardship in that State.

For my State, it's cheaper to cook with cooking Gas. A KG of cooking Gas is 900 in my side. Even the poorest can afford it.

madridguy:
Tinubu policy don cripple majority of us. Purchasing power don go. Ordinary bathing soap price now is enough to cook food shop under Sai Baba.

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Ipob na only you tinupoo policy dey cripple oo



Ire oo

Godons1:
Na hardship make Enugu people boycott cooking Gas? So na Kerosene and Charcoal them dey use cook for Enugu? This clearly show the magnitude of hardship in that State.

For my State, it's cheaper to cook with cooking Gas. A KG of cooking Gas is 900 in my side. Even the poorest can afford it.

Is it not better than the fire wood you and your people are using now?

Gerhards:







Is it not better than the fire wood you and your people are using now?

Na cooking Gas we dey use. Only women who fry Kosai, Yam, Potatoes and Suya Men use fire wood for their business.

Propaganda. Enugu people are billionaires

Eponfergiesmall:
Propaganda. Enugu people are billionaires

Absolutely, this report can't be true.

Godons1:
Na hardship make Enugu people boycott cooking Gas? So na Kerosene and Charcoal them dey use cook for Enugu? This clearly show the magnitude of hardship in that State.

For my State, it's cheaper to cook with cooking Gas. A KG of cooking Gas is 900 in my side. Even the poorest can afford it.

The poorest in your state is richest in Enugu,Anambra,Imo,Abia and Ebonyi.

Tinubu must not go Scot free

The werey want turn the economy to Abachas era

No wonder Igbos have been the ones complaining bitterly about hunger 🙄 🤔

PressMyButton:
Are you sure this is happening in the SE?. Billionaires could not afford kerosene and cooking gas?, Lol. The igwe must hear this.

Is it not better than shouting "ebinpawa" up and down?

ggood:
What did you expect from tinubu government tinubu is fraud

but all igbos are billionaires now so they shouldn’t b affected

Hmmmmmm

If you see food chop morning and night and you get roof over your head, go down on your knees and thank God Almighty. You don't know the miracle He is doing for you under this calamitous government of Tinubu.

Eponfergiesmall:



The poorest in your state is richest in Enugu,Anambra,Imo,Abia and Ebonyi.

The richest online abi? Apart from chest beating, wetin una know? All these women wey dey sell their Children to enable them buy food, they are the billionaires in your region abi?

That man from Abia, that killed his only son. When the Son ate the last food that is left in their house is also a billionaire.

The other Woman who committed suicide because of hardship is also a billionaire. Everybody for East na billionaire

Billionaires using charcoal stoves?

This one shock me oo

Na coal city.. let them use what they have

Nice one

Karemarealty288:
Charcoal is very healthy.

Poverty mentality.

Sharpsharp00123:
but all igbos are billionaires now so they shouldn’t b affected

so am now Igbo