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3 Jan
Nigeria's Terms of Trade (ToT) of all commodities recorded a slight decline of 0.03 percentage points in the third quarter of 2023, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed.
29 Dec
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says prices of beef, rice, beans, onion, tomato, and other food items increased in November.
22 Dec
Organised labour and other experts have faulted the newly released labour data pegging the unemployment rate at 4.2 per cent, saying the figure does not conform with current realities.
11 Dec
Companies paid N1.75 trillion as taxes in the third quarter of 2023, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) declared in its Company Income Tax (CIT) Q3 2023 report released in Abuja on Monday. On a year-on-year basis, the CIT collections in the third quarter of 2023 increased by 115.9 per cent compared to what obtained…
23 Nov
The price of automotive gas oil (AGO), also known as diesel, increased by 25.45 per cent in the last 12 months, worsening the cost of production and contributing substantially to the inflation rate. Within the period, subsidy removal also pushed up the average price of premium motor spirit (PMS) by 222.92 per cent. While petrol…
27 Oct
. Adamawa, Cross river, Abuja record highest price per litre of HHK There is no respite yet for Nigerian households as the prices of cooking gas and kerosene rise 1.81 per cent and 2.09 per cent respectively in September. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) and National Household…
28 Aug 2023
Exactly how many Nigerians are unemployed is a question nobody may be able to find an accurate answer for in the foreseeable future. This is because Nigeria’s hyped unemployment rate dropped last Thursday, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), government’s agency saddled with the responsibility of coming up with the most accurate figure.
25 Aug 2023
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has dismissed the new methodology employed by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in determining the level of unemployment and underemployment in Nigeria, describing it as “an act deliberately antithetical to Nigeria’s lived reality.”
15 Aug 2023
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 24.08 per cent in July 2023. The NBS disclosed this in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report for July , which was released in Abuja on Tuesday. According to the report, the figure is 1.29 per cent points higher compared…
4 Jul 2023
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that the average fare paid by air travellers in Nigeria increased by as much as 34% in May 2023. The NBS disclosed this in its Transport Fare Watch Report for the month in question which was released in Abuja on Tuesday. According to the report, Kebbi State…
4 Jul 2023
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says prices of food items such as tomatoes, rice, and yams witnessed increases in May. It made the declaration in its Selected Food Prices Watch Report for May issued in Abuja on Tuesday. The report stated that the average price of 1kg of tomato on a year-on-year basis rose…
26 May 2023
Others at that time were particularly not happy that the debt profile of the country would soon rise to $60 billion from less than the $20 billion it was before the present government came to power in 2015.

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