{"id":23455,"date":"2024-03-17T17:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=23455"},"modified":"2024-03-17T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T17:11:35","slug":"large-crowd-as-lagos-discounted-food-markets-commence-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/17\/large-crowd-as-lagos-discounted-food-markets-commence-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Crowd as Lagos Discounted Food Markets Commence Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos food market \u2018Ounje Eko\u2019, offering discounted prices on essential food items across the state has commenced sales.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu ordered that food products at the \u201cOunje Eko\u201d food markets be sold at a discount in all five divisions of Lagos starting on Sunday, March 17.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent, on Sunday, March 17, observed that staple food items including rice, beans, garri, bread, eggs, tomatoes, and pepper were made available at 25% discounted prices.<\/p>\n<p>At two locations \u2014 Alubarika Primary School, Bariga and Gbagada Junior High School \u2014visited by The Nation, residents trooped in large numbers to purchase different items.<\/p>\n<p>One of the residents, Mrs. Amaka who purchased some items, expressed satisfaction over the food market and the prices of the items stating that they were cheap and affordable.<\/p>\n<p>One of the residents, Mrs. Amaka who purchased some items, expressed satisfaction over the food market and the prices of the items stating that they were cheap and affordable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to encourage other state governors to emulate this; this is a very fantastic and laudable idea.\u201d Mrs. Amaka said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos food market \u2018Ounje Eko\u2019, offering discounted prices on essential food items across the state has commenced sales. This comes after Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu ordered that food products at the \u201cOunje Eko\u201d food markets be sold at a discount in all five divisions of Lagos starting on Sunday, March 17. Our correspondent, on Sunday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":23456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23457,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23455\/revisions\/23457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}