Ogun records lowest food price hikes - NBS

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has named Ogun State as the State with the slowest rise in food inflation on a year-on-year basis

This is coming as the bureau named Benue, Ekiti, and Kebbi as states with the highest year-on-year food inflation rate in Nigeria.

NBS, in its April Consumer Price Index, also said Ogun State recorded a decline in food inflation on a month-on-month basis

The report showed that Benue has the highest year-on-year rise in food inflation rate with 51.76 percent, followed by Ekiti with 34.05 percent and then Kebbi with 33.82 percent.

In contrast, Ebonyi, with 7.19 percent; Adamawa, with 9.52 percent; and Ogun, with 9.91 percent, recorded the slowest rise in food inflation on a year-on-year basis.

On a month-on-month basis, Benue, Ekiti, and Yobe were the states with the highest food inflation rise.

Accordingly, Benue month-on-month food inflation in April stood at 25.59 percent in Benue, 16.73 percent , and 13.92 percent.

Benue food inflation rise may not be unconnected to the surge in attacks in the North Central state of Nigeria in the past two months, with scores dead and many displaced.

However, Ebonyi (-14.43 percent), Kano (-11.37 percent and Ogun-7.06 percent) recorded a decline in food inflation on a month-on-month basis.