Kogi, Ekiti, Kwara States experienced the highest rise in food inflation rate year-on-year, reaching 46.32 percent, 44.94 percent, and 44.66 percent, respectively in the month of May, 2024, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Nigeria’s food inflation rate continues to climb year-on-year last month, as reflected in the latest data released by the NBS.
The NBS said the food inflation rate reached 40.66 percent in May, compared to the 24.82 percent reported in the same month in 2023, representing over 15 percent jump increase.
It added that foodstuffs like semovita, oat flakes, yam flour prepackage, garri, and beans contributed to the year-on-year increase in the food inflation rate.
Other contributors are: Irish potatoes, yam, water yam, palm oil, vegetable oil, stockfish, mudfish, crayfish, beef head, live chicken, pork head, bush meat, etc.
However, Adamawa, Bauchi, and Borno States recorded the slowest increase in the food inflation rate, with 31.72 percent, 34.35 percent, and 34.74 percent, respectively.
Lagos is 14th on the list of the states most affected by the food inflation, with 43.02 percent, faring better than some northern states such as Adamawa, Sokoto, Kaduna and Kano.
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LIST OF FOOD INFLATION RATES ACROSS STATES, FCT IN MAY
- Kogi: 46.32%
- Ekiti: 44.94%
- Kwara: 44.66%
- Osun: 44.57%
- Edo: 44.46%
- Enugu: 44.42%
- Imo: 44.32%
- Cross River: 44.24%
- Abia: 44.02%
- Akwa Ibom: 43.83%
- Gombe: 43.73%
- Oyo: 43.26%
- Ebonyi: 43.23%
- Lagos: 43.02%
- Jigawa: 42.56%
- Bayelsa: 42.29%
- Sokoto: 41.69%
- Rivers: 41.61%
- Ondo: 41.30%
- Ogun: 41.26%
- Kaduna: 41.00%
- Kano: 39.96%
- Niger: 39.92%
- Delta: 39.35%
- Plateau: 39.16%
- Anambra: 38.96%
- Zamfara: 38.93%
- Kebbi: 38.51%
- Abuja: 38.38%
- Nassarawa: 37.70%
- Benue: 37.64%
- Katsina: 37.54%
- Yobe: 37.44%
- Taraba: 36.06%
- Borno: 34.74%
- Bauchi: 34.35%
- Adamawa: 31.72%
