Pressure on Households as Food Inflation Rises to 40% Nigeria’s food inflation has continued on a steady rise, reaching 40.01 percent in March 2024 on a year-on-year basis, this is 15.56 percent higher compared to the rate recorded in March 2023 (24.45 percent) and 37.90...

Inflation Hits 33.20% in March - NBS The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Monday, April 15, said the inflation rate increased from 31.70% in February 2024 to 33.20% in March 2024. According to the Bureau in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report March 2024,...

Manufactured Goods Imports Rise 269% to N9trn – NBS The value of manufactured goods imported into the country rose Year-on-Year (YoY) by 268.76 percent to N9.03 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2023 (Q4’23) from N2.45 trillion in the same period in 2022. The figure also...

Nigeria, Ethiopia, Others Record Fastest Rise In Food Inflation – World Bank Nigeria, Ethiopia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe are the sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries that recorded the fastest rise in food inflation in February this year, according to a new report by the World...

NBS Report: Naira Crash Pushes Raw Material Imports To N3trn   Imports of raw materials into the country rose by 25 per cent to N3tn in 2023. This is according to the Foreign Trade Statistics data published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The major raw materials...

Metered Customers Reach 12.12m in 2023 Q4 - NBS The total number of metered customers in Nigeria increased by 3.46% in the fourth quarter of 2023, to reach 12.12 million. This is according to the latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) This, according...