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Nigeria’s inflation rate hits 27.33% in October– NBS The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 27.33 per cent in October 2023. The NBS disclosed this in its Consumer Price Index (CPI)…

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) generated N715.09 million in revenue from passengers in Q3 of 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says. This is contained in the NBS Rail Transportation Data for Q3 and Q4 2022 released in…

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 130 million Nigerians live in poverty as of Thursday. The NBS stated that this statistic represented 63% of the country's population in its 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index Survey,…

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the average price of 5kg of cooking gas increased from N4,397.68 in July to N4,456.56 in August. The NBS made this assertion in its Cooking Gas Price Watch issued on Tuesday in Abuja. It…

The National Bureau of Statistics says on a year-on-year basis, the average retail price per litre of household kerosene increased by 98.76 per cent in July 2022. This is according to the NBS National Household Kerosene Price Watch for…

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 3.11 per cent in the first quarter of 2022. This is according to the NBS Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report Q1 2022 released in…

By Derrick Bangura. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday that Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded by 3.40 percent in 2021, the highest rate since 2014 when the economy grew by 6.22 percent. According to…

As the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) sets to conduct the National Agricultural Sample Census (NASC) after 28 years, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, says it is long overdue. She spoke on Thursday…

Nigeria generated N1tn in the first half of the year, consisting of N512.25bn in the second quarter and N495.39bn generated in the first quarter. The figures were contained in the ‘Sectoral distribution of Value Added Tax’ report…