{"id":226785,"date":"2026-05-19T02:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226785"},"modified":"2026-05-19T02:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:55:03","slug":"editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226785","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL: The Cost of Living Crisis is Becoming a National Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across Nigeria today, millions of citizens are carrying a burden that grows heavier with each passing week. Nigerians are not merely complaining anymore; many are now exhausted. In homes, markets, offices, motor parks and street corners, conversations are no longer about building wealth or improving living standards&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pmnewsnigeria.com\/2026\/05\/07\/editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across Nigeria today, millions of citizens are carrying a burden that grows heavier with each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226785-editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency.jpeg",588,330,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226785-editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226785-editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency-300x168.jpeg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226785-editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency.jpeg",588,330,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226785-editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency.jpeg",588,330,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226785-editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency.jpeg",588,330,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226785-editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency.jpeg",588,330,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226785-editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency.jpeg",588,330,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226785-editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency.jpeg",588,330,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226785-editorial-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-becoming-a-national-emergency.jpeg",588,330,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}