Eid-el-Kabir: Kwara residents lament prohibitive costs of rams

Date: 2020-07-27

Checks by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin metropolis on Friday, indicated high prices which have discouraged people from buying rams.

Some insisted on participating in the Islamic ritual of ram slaughtering even if it meant going for a smaller ram.

A visit to some ram dealer points at Mandate Market, Adeta Roundabout, Sango Area and Taiwo Road, among others, showed that the prices were higher than those of last year.

Cows that sold for N80,000 in 2019, now go for between N100,000 and N150,000, while rams that sold for N40,000 now go for between N60,000 and N100,000.

NAN reports that an average sized ram that qualified for the festival according to Islamic injunction, costs between N25,000 and N35,000, while those below N30,000 are of smaller sizes and in some cases infants.

In an interview with NAN, the Chairman of the ram sellers at Mandate Market, Mr Salman Olugbon, said they had reduced the prices of the rams to make it easier for buyers.

One of the prospective buyers, Abdulazeez Abdullateef, in an interview with NAN, said he bought one sold for N35,000 based on his income.

A civil servant, Mr Ibrahim Alege, said he preferred to use the money for ram to stock his home with food stuff.

Alege said that though he was yet to buy any ram, but was putting hope in God that he would buy before the festive period. (NAN)

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Christopher Ayeni     Okanlawon Musa     Ajayi Okasanmi     Kola Bukoye     Olaoye B. Felix     Ilorin Durbar     Alabere     Muazam Nayaya     Mohammed Saidu     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     David Oyedepo     Segun Ogunsola     Ajia-Bako     Amos Sayo     Elections     Sheikh Alimi     Marafan Shonga     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Sardauna     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Dagbalodo     Abdulkadir Orire     Baba-Isale     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Omu Aran     Ndama Al-hassan     Ilorin Metro Park     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Kayode Yusuf     Abdulwahab Oba     TIIDELab     Taofeek Sanusi     Oro Grammar School     Ilesha-Baruba     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Kwasu     Ilorin West     Muhammed Aliyu     Tsaragi     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Sobi     Christopher Odetunde     Iyiola Oyedepo     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Atiku Abubakar     Ibrahim Oniye     Mansur Alfanla     Doyin Agbamu     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Oba Abdulraheem     Isapa     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Madawaki     George Innih     Bluenile Associates     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Sa\'adu Gambari     Old Oyo     Eghe Igbinehin     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Sunday Otokiti     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Modupe Oluwole     Shoprite     Sabi     Yusuf Abdulwahab     National Information Technology Development Agency     International Vocational Centre     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Olokoba     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Baakini     Henry Olaosebikan     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     National Union Of Road Transport Workers    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Maigidasanma     Ahmed Alhasssan     Atunwa     Umar Gunu     Kolade Solagberu     Sambo Murtala     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Aisha Buhari     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Tsaragi     Seni Saraki     Lawal Jimoh     Durbar Festival     Igbomina     Local Government Pension Board     Bashiru Makama     Oba Abdulraheem     KWAFFA     Kola Adesina     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Hauwa Nuru     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Pategi     Saka Saadu     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Olatunji Bamgbola     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Ilorin Amusement Park     Ilorin Central Mosque     Wahab Issa     Toyin Abdullahi     Sherif Sagaya     Madawaki     Mumeen Lah     Ope Saraki     Igbaja     College Of Education     Shoprite     Kayode Ibrahim     Kale Ayo     ENetSuD     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Adisa Logun     Daud Adeshola     Ibrahim Taiwo     Yakubu Gobir     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Bio Ibrahim     Lateef Fagbemi     Aremu Odolaye     NIPOGA     Bureau Of Lands     Garment Factory     Oyin-Zubair     Royal FM     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Sobi FM     NIRSAL     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Labour Party     Raymond Olaitan     Fola Consultant     Ilorin South     Kwara State Government     Ilorin South Constituency     Samuel Adedoyin     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Pakata Patriots     Paul Olawoore     Samuel Adaramola     Sabitiyu Grillo     Omotoso     Musbau A. Akanji