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.

Abdulazeez Uthman     Abegunde Goke     Tsaragi/Share     Sola Saraki University     Ile Arugbo     Idofin     Kwara Poly     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     AbdulRahman Saad     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     NYSC     Dan Masanin     Ilorin Curfew     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     HYPPADEC     Alaiye     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Ibrahim Labaika     Galadima     IYA ALFA NLA     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Shehu Salau     Adamu Atta     Bolaji Nagode     Forgo Battery     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Babaita     Aminat Ahmed     Convocation Ceremonies     Salihu S. Yaru     Dele Momodu     Playing Host     Saheed Popoola     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Ileloke     Noah Yusuf     Ibrahim Mashood     Kolawole Bashirat     Aliyu Sabi     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Elewu     Shola Odetundun     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Buari Edun     Abdulkadir Orire     Kabir Shagaya     LAK Jimoh     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Basit Olatunji     Amuda Bembe     Ganmo     IEDPU     KFA     Offorjama     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Muazam Nayaya     Abdullahi Biffo     Olaiya Zuberu     Mohammed Saidu     Oke-Ogun     Sunday Fagbemi     Jalala     Omotosho     Bahago     Rasheed Jimoh     Paul Olawoore     Sadiq Umar     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Olaiya Lawal     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     Mamatu Abdullahi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Saliu Shola Taofeek     Ado Bayero     Yusuf Mubarak     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Agor Market     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Lotus Bank     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Share     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Ayegbeni     Split Diamond Interchange     Magaji Are     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     CACOVID     Idris Garuba     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Oluranti Idowu     New Nigeria People’s Party     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Amada Jidda     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Ijakadi     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi     Ojuekun Sarumi     Saka Saadu     Hausa     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Makama Of Kaiama     Nigerian Medical Association     Baboko Primary School     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Titus Ashaolu     Salman Jawondo     Bolaji Aladie     Transition Implementation Committee     Odolaye Aremu     Sadiq Buhari     Salake     Abikan     Omoniyi Ayinla     Tafida Of Ilorin     Esinrogunjo     08001000100     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Col. Taiwo     Bolaji Gambari     John Obuh     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Pacify Labs     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Baboko     A.O. Belgore     KWAFFA     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     NYSC     Nurudeen Muhammed     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Oke-Odo     Vasolar Consultoria     Durosinlohun Atiku     Buari Edun     Nigeria Customs Service     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Emir Of Lafiagi     Kwara Volleyball Association