The cost of food and transport have soared since the end of May. The rising cost of fuel has made it harder to do business - and for customers to afford services and goods, let alone public transportation. Thousands of vendors do business at Balogun Market in Lagos. We thank God for life, but the last few months have not been easy, everything has become expensive." So many people can't afford food or transport. "But I'm even more fortunate than others. "It's the afternoon and I haven't even eaten, only a biscuit and 'gala,'" a cheap pastry, he says. But now, earning a living here has rarely been more difficult. Now 56, he's worked there since he was 16.įor years, he and many other market vendors thrived, he says, operating out of stalls wedged along walkways and colonial era streets of Lagos Island, a district within the city. Pictures of his work - eyebrow tints, facial threading, tattoos he's designed - are scattered around in the clutter and on the walls of his narrow wooden stall in Balogun Market, the largest in Lagos with a vast sprawl of thousands of businesses. Kehinde Adebajo, a beautician and barber, carefully threads a woman's eyebrows. Now 56, he says it's never been tougher to earn a living: "So many people can't afford food or transport. Kehinde Adebajo, a beautician and barber, has been working in Balogun Market, the largest in Lagos, since he was 16.
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