To say that things are hard in Nigeria these days, is to say the obvious. The current economic downturn, which of course is experienced globally, is putting everybody on the edge. Households in the country are going through difficult times making ends meet. The rise in prices of goods and services and the downward slide of the nation’s currency, the Naira, has put a huge burden on the people. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the body saddled with the responsibility of carrying out empirical analysis of economic trend in the country, in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for D…