{"id":61998,"date":"2025-03-03T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61998"},"modified":"2025-03-03T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T05:00:20","slug":"hardship-bites-abuja-residents-struggle-under-harsh-economic-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/03\/hardship-bites-abuja-residents-struggle-under-harsh-economic-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardship Bites: Abuja Residents Struggle Under Harsh Economic Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, are groaning under the weight of biting economic policies that have pushed the cost of living to unbearable levels.<\/p>\n<p>Many blame the removal of fuel subsidies, the devaluation of the naira, and rising electricity tariffs for their worsening financial struggles.<\/p>\n<p>Soaring food prices, transportation costs, and medical expenses have made even basic necessities unaffordable, leaving civil servants, low-income earners, and traders struggling to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Aisha Musa, a civil servant, lamented that salaries no longer meet essential needs, while pharmacist Ibrahim Abbas decried the soaring cost of medicines, forcing many to seek alternative treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Traders like Bashir Mustapha say rising logistics costs have led to price hikes, driving customers away.<\/p>\n<p>As frustration mounts, many residents are calling on the Federal Government to review its policies and provide relief to struggling Nigerians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, are groaning under the weight of biting economic policies that have pushed the cost of living to unbearable levels. Many blame the removal of fuel subsidies, the devaluation of the naira, and rising electricity tariffs for their worsening financial struggles. Soaring food prices, transportation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61998","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61999,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61998\/revisions\/61999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}