 As Christian Faithful around the world look forward to the Christmas celebration, Nigerians across states raise alarm over the high cost of foodstuff and other items for celebrations. Our correspondents across some states report that fares have also skyrocketed as the volume of travellers has drastically reduced the report. The period before Christmas comes with a lot of shopping and travelling. At Fokano resident, the prizes of commodities have soared beyond the reach of many, especially the very less privileged. In this market, traders complain of low sales and less profit, which makes it difficult for them to make their expected returns. No much profit because things is very high. It's on a higher side, so people will be complaining, for you to put the price on a higher side. People are complaining. Last year, since it's very low, we made more gains more than this year. With food prices rising at a geometric progression, many residents have to pay more for less or make do with very little. Yesterday, I bought a basket of tomatoes. It's so high, more than $20,000. You know, in Africa, we take care of not only the nuclear family as well as the extended family. So it's really a burden for especially civil servants to be able to meet up with those units. And the high price of food this year is really, really high. Fares are on the rise due to the scarcity of petrol as government power supply is still epileptic. When travellers making it out of the state say they can only afford road travels irrespective of the insecurity, as air tickets are now at cutthroat prices. I get the high, so now that will make the problem, the higher the price, the lower the quantity. There is no good money, so when they get the money, people must come and buy. The situation is not different in Kaduna state, not west of Nigeria. Majurians have continued to express dismay over the high-cost price of foods and non-food items with traders count low patronage in the market. Gumis central market is one of the busiest markets in the state. People come from far and near to shop but they say the purchasing part this year is low. Some resort to low quality clothes and shoes for their children as they say the cost of chicken and rice have doubled beyond imagination. A lot of things in the market now has gone relatively high because the rush for Christmas is there and coupled with the first scarcity. People that are carrying things from one destination to another, the distance too has made it high. Traders look to be the hardest hit here in Kaduna, like Otis. Because of the fact that the transportation, because there is increase in the price of the transport, like there is a difference for me, so it actually went up. They are still patronizing because you just have to travel and all that, so we have no choice. It's not funny. In those streets, I have to trek half way, so that I feel pain when I feel pain, go which way I need to go. 100 Naira, 200, with Ibeke, 150, 170, we don't even know to the apple. What a new currency, I've been to old currency, we don't know to the apple. Made them wake up, made them make things, they come out for, they come out man. They come out man and are suffering, they are there and they don't know what is happening. At the motor park, very few passengers are seen. They lament the high first, just as some motorists frown at the low patronage. This is Jimerta Metropolitan, where some essential food items have become difficult to purchase for people with a low. As you see, these that are coming, they are bringing it from Kano, some are bringing it from Zaria. So it depends on how we bought the back and then it depends on how much we are paying for the motor, for transportation. For the parts of transportation, we are giving it each one motor, 100,000, but now each one motor, 170,000 per motor. The prizes of food items in Adamoa are on the recent flood which wreaked havoc on fan produce. This motorcycle now is 1000, or like normal before you can buy like 500, 600, even onions very cost. Onion. Onion, very small portion of onions, 500, 900 to 7, 8. In Lagos, traders of clothes and accessories are of the opinion that the biting economy is responsible for more window shopping as buyers lament of the high cost of commodities needed for Christmas celebrations. Perhaps the decorations in some areas and the sound of Christmas songs gives hope for a better day ahead.