Tuesday, April 23, 2024

NBS

February 7, 2023

Nigerian postal service generated N3.63 billion in 2021: NBS

NIPOST handled 17,656,768 mails domestically and internationally in the year under review.

January 10, 2023

SPECIAL: Influx of cheap, bogus Chinese adire threatens major Nigerian tribe’s livelihood, tradition

As the hand-crafted indigo-dyed material gradually elicits interest of high-fashion — including from Michelle Obama and Jay-Z — the Chinese are flooding streets with its knockoffs.

A composite of Chinese industrial printed adire, handcrafted and Oluwatosin Adeleye used to illustrate the story
November 23, 2022

Sokoto govt faults NBS rating as poorest state in Nigeria

The NBS recently pegged multidimensional poverty in Sokoto as high as 91 per cent.

Aminu Waziri Tambuwal
November 22, 2022

Average price of petrol in September was N195.29 per litre: NBS

The NBS said the price was a 17.93 per cent increase over the N165.60 paid in October 2021.

Fuel pump
October 8, 2022

NBS assures Nigerians of improved, accurate, comprehensive data on labour  

The agency’s newly enhanced Nigeria Labour Force Survey is expected to address the rebuff that usually accompanied the release of reports.

September 30, 2022

Nigeria’s all-commodity group import index increased by 0.07%: NBS

The report said Nigeria’s major export and import markets in Q2, 2022 were India, Spain, Netherlands, U.S., Indonesia and China.

Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) office used to illustrate the story
September 9, 2022

Nigeria’s total trade declines in 2022 second quarter: NBS

The top five re-export destinations included Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Cameroon and Turkey.

Shipping containers used to illustrate the story
August 27, 2022

ICT contributed 18.44% to Nigeria’s GDP in Q2 2022: NBS

Mr Pantami praised President Muhammadu for contributing immensely to the development of Nigeria’s IT industry.

Pantami and Buhari
August 22, 2022

Prices of palm oil, groundnut oil rose by 40% in July: NBS

According to NBS, the average price of a bottle of groundnut oil was N1,078.17 in July 2022, a 40.24 per cent increase from N768.81 in July 2021.

PALM OIL; GROUNDNUT OIL
August 15, 2022

In July, Nigeria recorded its highest inflation in 17 years: NBS

The NBS claims that increases in the cost of bread and cereals, food items, potatoes, yams, and other tubers, as well as meat, fish, oil, and fat, are to blame for the rise in food inflation.

Buhari/food, petrol, other essential commodities