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Food Prices Increased Heavily In November – NBS

Bola Tinubu

The average price of some food items soared in November according to the report released today by the National Bureau of Statistics. The report indicated that the average price of 1kg of Beans brown increased by 6.18% from N790.01 in October 2023, and on a year-on-year basis, the item rose ...

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222M Nigerians Used Telephones In 2022 – NBS

Muhammadu Buhari

The National Bureau of Statistics has come out to reveal that a total of 222.6 million telephone subscribers were in Nigeria as at end of 2022. The bureau recently disclosed this in its Telecoms Data: Active Voice and Internet per State, Porting and Tariff Information report for the last quarter ...

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FG Generated N496 BB VAT In The First Quarter Of 2021 – NBS

President Muhammadu Buhari

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has come out to say that the federal government generated N496.39 billion as Value Added Tax (VAT) in the first quarter of this year. NBS recently revealed this via its Sectoral Distribution of VAT Report for Q1’21 released today, and Nigerians have been reacting. ...

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Sokoto State And Taraba State Are The Poorest In Nigeria – NBS

Muhammadu Buhari

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS has said 82.9 million Nigerians (40.1 percent) of the population are poor. This was revealed in its 2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria study released on Monday. The stat involved data on household and individual demographics (age, gender, marital status, among others), access to ...

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