Nigeria

Nigeria maintains one of Africa's largest poultry industries, yet eggs continue to drift beyond the reach of the households that need them most. The cause is a cost structure under severe internal strain: feed — maize and soybeans — accounts for the great majority of production costs, and both crops have been battered by insecurity in growing regions, currency devaluation and import restrictions.

The naira's steep depreciation since 2023 inflicted a double blow, inflating the price of imported inputs (vaccines, additives, equipment) while eroding consumers' real purchasing power. Farmers caught between unaffordable feed bills and price points consumers cannot bear have culled flocks or exited the industry entirely, tightening supply further — a spiral about which Nigerian poultry associations have warned loudly and repeatedly.

Measured in minutes of minimum-wage work, Nigerian eggs rank among the most expensive in this entire index; the purchasing-power widget on this page is more revealing here than the dollar figure. The price shown comes from Supermart, a Lagos-based online grocer, reflecting prices observed there daily; those are Lagos retail prices, which run above those in rural markets.

Since tracking began on June 20, 2026, Supermart's shelf price has held at ₦2,825 per 10 eggs on every day observed through late October 2026, without a single change. For comparison, the FAO's Food Price Monitoring and Analysis tool, which compiles market-level averages, put Nigeria's egg price at about ₦2,592 per 10 eggs in April 2026 and about ₦2,611 in May. The two figures measure different things — one Lagos online grocer's listed price versus an average across markets — so the gap between them is not evidence of overpricing. The unchanged listing may simply reflect infrequent repricing by the retailer, although this site cannot confirm the reason.

Nigeria's production base is itself divided. Alongside large commercial farms, concentrated particularly in southwestern states such as Ogun and Oyo, a substantial share of output comes from small and medium-sized operations and household flocks that are far more exposed to swings in feed prices and to disease. Per-capita egg consumption remains low by global standards, and most eggs are sold by the 30-egg crate in open markets and by roadside traders rather than in supermarket cartons. Prices in those channels move with local supply, so the Lagos online grocer price shown here captures only one slice of a highly fragmented market.