Ever since subsidy was removed from Nigeria cost of goods has been going up on a daily basis, and the government are saying or doing nothing about it, country that has crude oil and other mineral resources will be going through serious inflation,as big as Nigeria not one single refinery is working,if refinery's are working actively in the country there are every possibility that cost of goods will drop down,
when you have an hidden motive behind the removal of fuel subsidy, it's going to be an audio policy that wouldn't have any physical reflection in the society. Administration after administration we keep talking about our refinaries and yet nothing serious is being done about it. If at least a few of the refinaries are working, it would have helped a lomg way to help the rate of unemployment and the way we've continue to export things we should have been refining locally. At this point we've gotten to a point where even after the said makes a particular statement, we should at least ask them what they mean by those statement because the rate at which they diverge from what they've promised is totally alarming and strange. Removal of fuel subsidy that's supposed to make things much easier for the masses now turns out to be the starting point of the misery and plight of the masses.
two years ago they were running their shops weekly with sum of#45000 or #50000,but as we speak to run a small bet shop today in Nigeria,every week will cost you not less than #195000 .And at the end of the day your devidenc will be smaller than your expenses which is not suppose so , Nigeria government should look this subsidy issues and do something about it before it gets out of hands.
this is the main reason why small scale business that needs light for most of her activity are currently suffering and getting a very small amount of returns at the end of sales. Though I find the figures you've given thier quite outrageous, how much do they make a month that will be enough to sort out these kinds of expenses and still be enough to get as profits? Instead of spending 19500 per week on fuel regardless of the kind of shop I'm running, I will rather add up some money and buy a solar inverter that's going to be more efficient than federal power and generator all combined. The interest rate for loans that SMes can use in starting up thier business have been made too high for the common man to buy and when you want to start up with your hard earned money, how can you even cope up with all these expenses.
Nigeria is indeed in the middle of a great tribulation.