Vegetables drove the Lagos food market in the week of 25 September 2026. FoodPrices Nigeria data drawn from the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Systems market survey shows all five vegetable lines tracked across 10 markets fell by 1% or more against the week of 18 September. Of 27 product lines in the survey, seven moved by 1% or more: the five vegetables, all down, and two rice lines, both up. Beans, garri, eggs and the tubers moved by less than 1%. Every figure below is a mean price across Lagos markets, filtered for outliers.
Vegetables Lead the Fall
Pepper (Rodo) posted the steepest decline in the basket, down 8.06% from ₦2,480 to ₦2,280 per kg, with tatashe and shombo close behind. Tomatoes fell from ₦1,950 to ₦1,860 per kg, a ₦90 or 4.62% drop. Onions fell from ₦1,050 to ₦1,030 per kg, down 1.90%.
For a household buying 1kg each of tomatoes, rodo and onions as the base of a pot of stew, the cost fell from ₦5,480 to ₦5,170 in one week, a saving of ₦310 or 5.66%.
Tomatoes: The Hub Is Not the Cheapest
The tomato spread is the widest in the vegetable group. A kg of tomatoes costs ₦800 at Agbalata Market and ₦2,200 at Mile 12 Market, the city's best-known produce hub, a 175% premium. Onions run the other way: Mile 12 is the cheapest market at ₦700 per kg, against ₦1,500 at Agege Market, a 114.3% premium.
Agbalata Market is the cheapest place in Lagos for tomatoes, rodo, tatashe and shombo this week. It is also the dearest place for sweet potatoes and eggs, so no single market wins on every item.
Rice Is the Only Group Going Up
The two increases of 1% or more were both rice. Nigerian Manufactured Rice by the derica rose 3.03% from ₦825 to ₦850, and imported short-grain rice by the paint rose 1.44% from ₦4,222 to ₦4,283. The 50kg bags did not follow: Nigerian Manufactured Rice held at ₦51,571 and short-grain eased 0.69% to ₦50,700.
The Groups That Held
Beans held at exactly 0.0% on all four lines, with Beans (Drum) at ₦4,460 per paint and Beans (Oloyin) at ₦4,910. A crate of Medium Sized Eggs held at ₦5,500 across 10 markets, ranging from ₦5,200 at Sabo Market Yaba to ₦6,000 at Agbalata Market. Sweet potatoes held at ₦780 per kg, from ₦500 at Agege Market to ₦1,000 at Agbalata Market.
What Other Surveys Say
Legit.ng reported on 3 October that 36 commodities recorded price declines in September, against 27 in August, drawing on its own survey of Mushin, Daleko, Mile 12 and Oyingbo markets and on Foodprices.ng prices. Pepper was among its ten items that had become cheaper. Nairametrics reported that the National Bureau of Statistics named pepper and onions among the items behind August's slowdown in food prices. Both agree with the direction in this week's Lagos vegetable figures.
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