Twenty six states in Nigeria including Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, and 10 other...
In order to improve investment decisions and identify sectors of Nigerian economy that require government intervention, the Federal Government has partnered with the World Bank to...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that Nigeria was only able to meet 75 percent of its target Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue in...
The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday Nigerians paid less for kerosene in December last year. The NBS, which disclosed this in a report,...
The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday the average bus fare paid by Nigerian commuters within the city increased by 79 percent in one...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Saturday residents of Abia, Kebbi and Kwara States paid the highest price for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also...
Latest data from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that a total of N9.28tn was spent on the importation of manufactured goods into the...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you 1. 617 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria’s total to 72,757. Deaths, recoveries updated Nigeria on Saturday...
Nigeria’s trade deficit, which gauges the value at which the country’s imports exceeds its exports, stood at N2.388 trillion at the end of the third quarter...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday the prices of some major selected food items increased last month. In its report on Food Price...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday Nigeria generated a total sum of N424.71billion as Value Added Tax (VAT) in the third quarter of...
Sixty-eight per cent of Nigeria’s household population witnessed different degrees of food insecurity ranging from moderate to severe in the month of August, data from the...
Road traffic crashes accounted for the death of 855 Nigerians between June and September, with adults making up 788 or 92% of the total, the National...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has announced that it will begin the National Business Sample Census, 22 years after the last one. The exercise is...
The coronavirus outbreak has worsened food crisis in Lagos, Kano, Rivers and Abuja, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The Organisation stated this in a...
Nigeria’s total trade value plunged by 27.30% in the second quarter of this year, compared to the first quarter, and by 27.46% when set beside the...
The total number of drug cases in Nigeria soared from 9,831 in 2018 to 621,035.46 in 2019, equivalent to 6,217% increase, the National Bureau of Statistics...
The total value of inflow of foreign capital into the Nigerian economy in the second quarter of this year crumbled by 77.88% relative to the first...
Nigeria’s second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP), whose details were published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday, revealed that the Nigerian economy performed better than...
The costs of various food items escalated in July, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in its Selected Food Price Watch July 2020 report on...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State on Saturday described as embarrassing and depressing the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report on the unemployment...
The Akwa Ibom State government on Saturday described as unacceptable the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report on unemployment rate in the state. The bureau had...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday the total public debt portfolio of the Federal and State governments stood at N28.63 trillion as at...
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has declared that the total credit granted to the private sector rose to N26.69 trillion in 2019, up...
Nigeria recorded a total trade deficit of N138.98 billion between January and March this year, the statistics office said on Tuesday in its Foreign Trade in...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has declared that 42 per cent of the respondents it surveyed in its newly released COVID-19 Impact Monitoring report were...
A new report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has listed Lagos as the most economically vibrant state in the country after it recorded N398.7billion...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday the country imported 20.89 billion litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, in 2019....
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday N338.94 billion was generated as Value Added Tax (VAT) in the first quarter of this year. The...
Forty per cent of the Nigerian population lives in poverty, the latest figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Monday revealed. The report titled,...
Nigeria’s inflation rate hit 12.26% year on year in March, marking the highest point it had attained in 23 months, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday the Nigerian economy recorded a 2.27 percent growth last year compared to 2018 when it posted 1.91...
The Nigerian economy expanded by 2.55% at the end of last quarter of last year, compared to the corresponding period of 2018. This is contained in...
Nigeria’s headline inflation reached its peak in a 21-month period to January 2020 and is now 12.13%, figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in its latest report, has revealed that the volume of electronic transactions recorded by banks between July and September this...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has put the inflation rate for September 2019 at 11.24%. This is higher than the previous month’s 11.02%. The National...
President Muhammadu Buhari has discredited data presented by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Nigeria, describing them as wild estimates that hardly...
With existing policy inaccuracies, it may seem rather difficult to subdue current economic challenges anytime soon. Unfortunately, updates on the state of the economy aren’t encouraging enough...
Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined by 0.16 per cent in the second quarter of 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday. The...
A total of N311.94 billion has been generated by the Federal between April and June 2019 through the Value Added Tax (VAT), statistics from the National...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures inflation, increased to 11.08 percent (year-on-year) in July 2019, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics...
The Federal Government spent the sum of N610.2bn paying interest on its domestic debts put at N13.11 trillion in the first three months of 2019, data...
THE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday said Nigeria’s Terms of Trade (ToT) rose by 2.3 percent in the first quarter of 2019 (Q1’19). ToT...
A report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that prices of goods and services increased from 11.37 percent in April to 11.40...
A report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that a total sum of N289.04 billion was generated as VAT in first quarter...
Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 2.01%(year-on-year), in real terms, in the first quarter of 2019, according to a report released on Monday by the...
The annual inflation rate in Nigeria increased to 11.37 percent in April 2019 from 11.25 percent in the prior month, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)...
Nigeria’s inflation rate has dropped to 11.25 percent year on year for March 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said on Tuesday. According to the...
Nigeria’s inflationary rate for March, 2019 has been projected to stand at 11.2 percent by the Lagos based Financial Derivatives Company, FDC. According to the National...
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said that the Nigerian economy recorded a total of N32.26 trillion trade in 2018. This is contained in the...