As schools resume for the new academic session, traders who deal in schooling items are currently unhappy as they experience low patronage.
The economic hardship in Nigeria has affected every sector of the economy, hence making cash circulation difficult.
A school child, usually buys a lot of items such as uniform, shoes, textbooks, and lots more in preparation for the resumption.
However, this is not the case for this session as most parents have decided to cut corners because they can barely afford those items.
The News agency of Nigeria, reports that dealers in books, shoes, bags, uniforms and other children items are grumbling as the market seems unfavorable to them this session.
They said the patronage was not impressive when compared to previous times when schools resumed for a new session.
The schools are also not left out in these challenges, because most parents are beginning to withdraw their kids from expensive schools to less expensive ones.
The publishers of books are lamenting about the high cost of materials and papers, prompting them to reduce the quantity published.
Some of the publishers have backed out of publications as they were unable to meet up with the high increase in publishing materials.
Also, most essential learning materials which the children use for studying are not in the market because the cost of importation is very high.