Nigerians have been struggling with some unpleasant news lately, especially from the National Bureau of Statistics. Many were however not jolted by the NBS latest reports, which showed that Nigeria’s inflation...

The latest report published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on its website which among other things noted that Nigeria Unemployment Rate has risen from 27.1% in the second...

Until the Federal Government’s move to diversify the economy is properly implemented, the rate of unemployment will continue to rise. Experts are of the view that as a matter of priority, the government must be innovative in diversifying Nigeria’s economy to get more people out of the unemployment sphere. This is coming on the heels…

Nigeria’s external imbalance continues to widen as the trade deficit for 2020 hit N7.38 trillion.

Joy Nwabueze, the first female Professor of Statistics in Nigeria, on Monday called for adequate funding of the National Bureau of Statistics

Nigeria generated a total of N2.94 trillion in income from value-added tax (VAT) and company income tax (CIT) last year, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), have revealed.

Recently released data by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), indicates that Nigerian telecommunications giant, Globacom, drove the telecommunications industry growth

Nigeria’s inflation rate has hit 15.75 percent (year-on-year), indicating a 0.86 percent increase from 14.89 percent in November.

Despite efforts made at boosting non-oil earnings, crude contributed N2.42 trillion to the country’s 2.99 trillion Q3 2020 export earnings, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) yesterday showed. With the figure, crude’s share of the total exports was 81 per cent, which is still considered very high, and even higher than the…

A cross-section of economic experts has called on the Federal Government to take urgent action to re-strategise and re-engineer the economy to primarily respond to challenges,

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members will be in a dilemma today as they begin a marathon session, two days after a recession was officially declared.

Nigeria’s tottering economic growth glided to a halt at the height of COVID-19 outbreak a few months ago. The three-year moving average was broken, sending a shockwave of fear and anxiety