Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, has revealed that over N3 billion transactions have been recorded at state’s food hubs in the past one and half years.

Olusanya said this on the sidelines of a stakeholders’ dialogue on Right to Food Act organised by the Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation-(GIFSEP) in partnership with OXFAM in Lagos.

She explained: “We commissioned food hubs on December 18, 2023s and started operation in February 2024, shut down in January of 2025 and reopened in February. So, it is not even up to a year and half. It is not just to know the food value transactions but the fact of also knowing the quantity of the food items sold. So imagine having this on a grandeur scale, everything sold and purchased, the data is available and the price points are there. We have three teams that conduct market pricing aggregates every week in Ajah, Mile 12, Sabo Market, Ilepo market, Mushin food hub, Badagry and others to find the aggregate and average price point.

“It helps us as a government to enter into agreement with private sector players, logistics providers and other state governments in ensuring that we have specific booths at specific intervals across the year in a timely manner, better pricing in hubs and for that reason Lagosians will be able to access food at better pricing.”

The commissioner said the reality that over 70 per cent of food consumed in Lagos comes from other states will continue to happen because of the state’s geographical location as a coastal city, densely populated and the absence of farm lands.

She stressed that the solution is centred around logistics and food storage to ensure that residents have access to safe food and other schemes like ‘Ounje Eko’ where foods are subsidised, adding that youths who are into agriculture are given an average of N5 million grants to support farming activities.

Olusanya reiterated the government’s commitment to right to food and its implementation, disclosing that the government has the agriculture and food system roadmap, a strategic document that it has been following since 2021, which is hinged on four pillars of domestic sufficiency, up country partnerships, food storage infrastructure logistics and market infrastructure.