Nigeria, April 27 -- In the coastal town of Ibaka, in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Victoria Iyamore, 56, worries over her fish business amidst challenges of power supply and rising costs of essential resources.

Mrs Iyamore depends on ice packs (popularly called ice blocks) to preserve her daily fresh fish catch from the nearby sea. She and her sons, Jude and Ernest, need a steady supply of ice blocks to preserve the fish they sell to customers.

However, the recent downturn in power supply and the high cost of petroleum products have disrupted the local fish trade.

When PREMIUM TIMES visited Mrs Iyamore's shop, she said she had lost stocks worth thousands of naira due to the unavailability of ice blocks.

"We use ice bl...