Read against its own history, Ajah Market shows the steepest staple moves anywhere in the file, concentrated in beans and garri.
The Two Big Climbs
A 50kg bag of drum beans was captured at ₦135,000 in the week of June 1, against ₦48,000 in the week of February 23, a rise of 181.3% across that roughly three-and-a-half month gap. White garri made the second jump, a 50kg bag firming to ₦27,000 from ₦20,000 in late February, up 35.0%. White beans entered the record at ₦120,000 a bag, a first capture. These are the readings that define Ajah's June.
What Held and What Eased
Not everything moved up. Oloyin beans eased to ₦70,000 a bag from ₦74,000 in March, down 5.4%, and the rice shelf softened, with Vitali long grain down 7.1% to ₦65,000 and imported short grain down 4.8% to ₦60,000, while My Choice held flat at ₦73,000. Retail beans were calm, a paint bucket of drum beans steady at ₦5,000 and a derica at ₦1,000, both unchanged from March. The pressure at Ajah is a bag-level story, not a retail one.
New Arrivals
June also brought new lines onto the Ajah board, premium Aani Golden Sella basmati at ₦21,000 for a 5kg pack, and small bottles of local groundnut and palm oil at ₦4,000 for 1.5 litres and ₦2,000 for 750ml.
The Bigger Picture
The NBS named both beans and garri among the staples driving month-on-month food price movements in April 2026, and Nairametrics noted food inflation overtook the headline rate that month for the first time in eight months. Ajah's drum-beans bag works out near ₦2,700 per kilogram, far above the national per-kilogram average the bureau publishes, a gap typical of Lagos wholesale captures.
Live prices and history: Ajah Market and the historical prices tool.