Lagos restaurant feeds the needy during Ramadan amid rising costs

At the back of a restaurant in Lagos a lamb is being butchered for iftar – the meal eaten by practising Muslims during Ramadan to break their fast at sunrise. During the holy month of Ramadan the faithful observe the requirement to fast between sunrise and sunset.

But increasingly hard economic conditions here in Nigeria’s largest city, means many families don’t even have a simple meal to break their fast. They’re reliant on the…