Food prices in Nigeria increased in December 2020, says national statistics bureau


Published 24 Jan,2021 via BizWatchNigeria - The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that there was an increase in food prices in the month of December 2020.

It stated this in a report titled, ‘Selected food price watch’, noting that there was a rice in the prices of selected food items in December.

In the report the NBS said that 1kg of rice (imported high quality sold loose) saw a year-on-year increase by 19.80 percent and a month-on-month increase of 0.17 percent.

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