Unending Toll: How highway extortion fuels soaring food prices in Nigeria
Across Nigeria’s highways, extortion has become as predictable as potholes. From Kano to Lagos, from Enugu to Port Harcourt, from ...
Across Nigeria’s highways, extortion has become as predictable as potholes. From Kano to Lagos, from Enugu to Port Harcourt, from ...
The report said the annual food inflation rate in August 2025 was 21.87 per cent.
These female breadwinners, often engaged in informal work and faced with limited financial support, stretch meagre earnings to keep their ...
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According to the report, the food inflation rate in July 2025 was 22.74 per cent on a year-on-year basis.
“We are the top importing European country into Nigeria and most of it being refined oil.”
The rebasing exercise which updates Nigeria's data to mirror its current conditions and changing circumstances placed real estate third on ...
The NBS said the sector grew by 10.04 per cent year-on-year in nominal terms in Q1 2025, showing an increase ...
“This revision represents a 41.7% increase in nominal estimates compared to a 59.7% revision in the 2010 rebasing exercise.”
The conference plans to feature panel discussions, keynote speeches, fireside chats and plenary sessions.
“We recognise that inflation remains the most disruptive force to the economic welfare of Nigerians. Our policy stance is firmly ...
The NBS said the food inflation rate in February 2025 was 23.51 per cent on a year-on-year basis.
The report said the performance of the GDP in the fourth quarter of 2024 was driven mainly by the Services ...
"Without an accurate census, we can't successfully plan for employment, agriculture, and food sovereignty."
The NBS said the food index for January 2025 was 110.03, resulting in a food inflation rate of 26.08 per ...
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The NBS said the North East zone had the highest average retail price of N1245.90, while the South West zone ...
The group's founder, Oluwaseun Alabi, handed over the food items separately to the beneficiaries at Iwo, Ede, Irewole, and Isokan ...
Of this figure, 206,030 were killed in the banditry-ravaged North-west, while 188,992 people were killed in the North-east, a region ...
“Flooding has been in town for 10 years. It's now becoming an annual crisis, destroying farms and food supplies."
According to the NBS, Nigeria's GDP grew by 3.46 per cent, compared to the 3.19 per cent growth recorded in ...
“The combined unemployment rate and time-related underemployment as a share of the labour force population (LU2) decreased to 13 per ...
The NBS said this growth rate is higher than the 2.54 per cent recorded in the third quarter of 2023 ...
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