National Bureau of Statistics

The National Bureau of Statistics says it will publish the new unemployment and employment figures for the country before the end of May 2023. The bureau said this in its “Nigeria Labour Force Framework Re-design 2023 report released on its...

Stakeholders and industry experts have raised the alarm over the $800 million World Bank facility secured by the Federal Government to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) disclosed in January that it...

Following an aggressive diversification course championed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the country earned a total of $22.6 billion (N8.8 trillion) from non-oil exports between 2019 and 2022, data by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) have...

March 11, (THEWILL) - Air traffic data gathered during January 2023 indicates that African airlines witnessed a 124 per cent increase in traffic, compared with January 2022 during the same period. These carriers in the continent also saw...

February 22,(THEWILL) - On Wednesday, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria recorded annual Gross Domestic Product growth of 3.1 percent in 2022, representing a 0.3 percentage point decline from the 3.4 percent recorded in 2021. The NBS disclosed...

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday said the prices of some food items in Nigeria increased in December. Headline inflation (all goods and services) reached its lowest rate in eleven months in December, after ten straight monthly increases. Food...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that residents based in the South-East region paid the highest kerosene costs in December 2022. This is contained in the NBS National Household Kerosene Price Watch report, which disclosed that South-Eastern Nigerians...

January 16, (THEWILL) - Nigeria’s inflation rate recorded a drop to 21.34 percent in December 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in its report on Monday. The country’s inflation rate had risen for 10 consecutive months, up to...

The Yuletide has witnessed a significant consumption rate across the country in the consumer goods sector. On a larger scale, sachet usage has dominated the retail industry in many parts of Africa but more significantly in Nigeria, where the...

November 24, (THEWiLL) - Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 2.25% (year-on-year) in real terms in the third quarter of 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said in its GDP report released on Thursday. The Q3 2022 growth...