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The headline inflation rate in Nigeria in March 2023, rose to 22.04% compared to February 2023, which was 21.91%, the National Bureau of Statistics has said. This is contained in its CPI and Inflation Report for March 2023, published on…

The National Bureau of Statistics has said the All-commodity Group Import Index for Q4 2022 on average increased by 40 percent points. This is contained in the Commodity Price Indices and Terms of Trade Q4, 2022 report published on the…

The Federal Government has raked in N10.1tn from the collection of Value Added Tax under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. This comes just as the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, adviced the incoming government to increase…

Nigeria’s total trade stood at N11,722.44 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022, a National Bureau of Statistics report has shown. The NBS Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics Report for Q4 2022 published on the bureau's website on Friday…

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, Food Price Watch of January 2023 has indicated that prices of food items in Nigeria have continued to soar on a yearly basis. The report which was published on the NBS website showed that grains,…

The National Bureau of Statistics has revealed that the price of 12.5kg of cooking gas rose from N7,413.25 recorded in January 2022 to N10,277.17 in January 2023, representing a 38.63 percent increase on a year-on-year basis. However,…

Food prices in the country have soared on a yearly basis, data by the National Bureau of Statistics has shown. In the Bureau's 'Selected Food Price Watch for November 2022,' data shows that the average price of 1kg beef boneless…

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in Nigeria says headline inflation rate in the country rose to 21.09% in October 2022, on a year–on–year basis. The NBS said this was 5.09% points higher compared to the rate recorded in October…

The average retail price for refilling a 5kg Cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) increased by 0.21% on a month-on-month basis from N4,474.48 recorded in September 2022 to N4,483.75 in October 2022, the National Bureau of…

The National Bureau of Statistics says 63% of persons living within Nigeria, which constitutes 133 million people, are multidimensionally poor. This is contained in its 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Survey.…