It stated, “The rise in food inflation on a year-on-year basis is caused by increases in prices of guinea corn, rice, maize grains, beans, yam, water yam, and cassava tube.
Mr Musa stressed the need for the authorities to do the needful before things get out of control.
Parents of kidnapped Ekiti pupils said fried rice, black bullets, energy drinks, milk and N15 million were offered to secure the release of their children.
Mr Okocha said that each truck contained 47 different items, which were meant to cushion the effects of the flood on the victims.
The National Bureau of Statistics said Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 27.33 per cent in October 2023.
Hauwa Yusuf, state coordinator (Niger 1), SON, said some products had expired seven years ago, but were still being sold to consumers.
“I hear things like scarcity of forex. What is scarcity of forex, as if the world owes us any forex? The world does not owe us any forex.”
According to the report, the figure of 1.72 per cent is higher than the 24.08 per cent recorded in July 2023.
The National Bureau of Statistics says Nigeria’s inflation has dropped for its fifth consecutive month.
