Food price
23 Dec
With only two days to the Christmas celebration, the cost of food items in Abia and Imo states has surged, leaving many residents struggling to afford basic necessities.
22 Dec
Barely few days to this year’s Christmas celebration, the prices of food items have continued to soar beyond the reach of an average Abia
2 Dec
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, yesterday, expressed concern over the rising cost of food items in the country, describing the situation as “worrisome and unbearable” for many Nigerians. He said there is an urgent need for President Bola Tinubu and the state governors to come to the…
26 Nov
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says prices of beans, eggs, bread, rice, and other food items witnessed significant price increases in October 2024. The NBS said this in its Selected Food Prices Watch report for October 2024 released in Abuja on Tuesday. The report said that the average price of 1kg of brown beans…
26 Nov
A new survey by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the most prevalent shock affecting Nigeria is price increases. This was said to have affected about 71 per cent.
4 Oct
The Bank of Industry (BoI) yesterday launched a mobile app intended to check live food prices across eight select states in the country.
28 Aug
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has directed that the Sunday market, popularly known as Ounjè Eko, operate with a 25% reduction in prices of food items. Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, disclosed this in a press briefing on Wednesday. Olusanya said the content will be sold at prevailing market prices with a 25% discount applied.…
12 Aug
The Ewi-in-Council, led by the monarch Oba Rufus Adeyemo Adejugbe, has directed a reduction in the prices of foodstuffs, the dissolution of
12 Feb 2024
Nigeria's food inflation has jumped consistently in the past five years despite intervention in the agriculture sector, especially through the N1.08 trillion Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), with composite food prices jumping by about 170 per cent in the past five years.
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