THE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says the average price of 5kg of cooking gas increased from N5,974.55 recorded in July 2024 to N6,430.02 in August 2024. This is contained in the Bureau’s “Cooking Gas Price Watch’’ for August 2024 released on Sunday in Abuja. The report said the August price represented a 7.62 per … Read more
A report published on the National Bureau of Statistics website has shown that a total of N721 billion ($1.26 billion) was paid in cash bribes to public officials in 2023. The report followed the findings of the United Nations office on Drugs and Crimes survey in partnership with the National Bureau of Statistics. The report … Read more
A review of data published by the National Bureau of Statistics has shown that between September 2023 and April 2024, Nigerian states received the sum of N34 billion as ecological funds. Despite receiving these amounts, the situations in the states do not show that they have been spending enough funds on erosion and flood control, … Read more
THE National Average Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) per adult a day stood at N938 in February, 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a report. The NBS revealed this in its CoHD report for February, 2024 released on Friday in Abuja. The bureau said the CoHD was the least expensive combination … Read more
THE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the All-commodity group import index on average increased by 0.79 per cent in Q4 2023. This was according to the NBS Commodity Price Indices and Terms of Trade for Q4 of 2023 released in Abuja on Thursday. The report said the increase could be attributed to the changes … Read more