James Nuwan, a cleaner in a federal government parastatal in Benue, earns N70,000 monthly. His salary is exactly the nation’s minimum wage and cannot even get him a bag of rice.
From his meagre salary, he is expected to pay the school fees of his five children and provide for them and their mother.
Cooking a pot of rice alone takes nearly half of his salary. He now has to manage the remaining 60 percent to take care of other needs.
But Nuwan is not alone. The latest Jollof Index by SBM Intelligence shows that the cost of preparing a po
