Tag: National Bureau of Statistics

The new appointment follows the demise of the former Statistician-General of the Federation, Simon Harry, on April 13, 2022.

The NBS also says that Kaduna residents paid the highest price for petrol in April, compared to other states.

In April, food inflation on a year-on-year basis was highest in Kogi, Kwara, and Ebonyi.

Maduka University, Enugu, is expected to begin academic activities in December.

The statistics for ministerial appointments from 1999 to 2021 stood at 13.73 per cent for females and 86.27 per cent ...

Mr Harry was appointed by President Buhari in August 2021 to succeed Yemi Kale as statistician-general of the federation.

Nigeria has faced fuel shortages since February after importing substandard fuel, resulting in weeks of severe scarcity and long queues ...

Growth in the last quarter of the year was however the slowest when compared to the two previous quarters.

In Nigeria, about 20 per cent of Nigeria’s working population lost their jobs after a pandemic-forced lockdown in 2020, says ...

The rate for December 2021 was 15.63 per cent.

Nigeria had the worst situation among 64 countries where the research was conducted.

Nigeria’s headline inflation rose to 15.63 per cent in December 2021 compared to 15.40 per cent in November.

Inflation rose to 15.63 per cent in December 2021 compared to 15.40 per cent in November, the National Bureau of ...

In the last six years of Mr Buhari in power, Nigeria’s jobless rate is said to have been more than ...

“So, what’s your problem?”, I asked. “Are there no adults associated with ‘Project Nigeria’?”, was her response. I’m yet to ...

Out of the 1,584 new infections recorded on Friday, Lagos State, the nation’s epicentre recorded 906 cases.

Food inflation rose by 17.21 per cent in November, compared to 18.30 per cent in November 2020.

The economy grew 4.03 per cent, slower than 5.01 per cent it grew in the second quarter of the year.

One expert says it is "ridiculous" for the presidential food bill to rise significantly at a time of low government ...

While Zenith’s Ebenezer Onyeagwu took a pay rise of more than four per cent, Innocent Ike of Polaris took N19 ...

A total of 565,385 passengers travelled via the rail system in second.

The country's trade balance stood at a deficit of N1.87 trillion.

The finance minister says insecurity and other factors slowed growth in the agriculture sector, thereby denying the economy a stronger ...