Nigeria exported agro-food items worth N201.6 billion in the first quarter of 2022, representing a 58percent increase compared to N127.3 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2021. This is also the highest on record,...
The number customers of Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in Nigeria increased from 6.99 million in 2015 to 10.37 million in 2020, according to report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says The report focuses...
Nigeria’s import from China rose by 183.91 per cent from N530.98bn in the first quarter of 2018 to N1.51tn in Q1 2022. According to the National Bureau of Statistics data on foreign trade, China is responsible...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported that Nigeria recorded N1.2 trillion trade surplus in the first three months of 2022. In its recent report titled: ‘Foreign trade in goods statistics (Q1 2022)’, the bureau...
Nigeria’s crude oil exports jumped to N5.6trn in the first quarter of 2022, reflecting nearly 200 per cent increase when compared to the same period in 2021. The figures, contained in the Foreign Trade Report of...
The National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed that Nigeria spent N1.51tn on the imports of premium motor spirit, also known as petrol, in the first quarter of 2022. This was 25.54 per cent of the total...
Capital importation into the country declined by 28.09 percent in the first quarter of 2022, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) The total capital imported into the country in the first quarter stood at...
Selected food prices recorded an increase of 42 per cent in one year, figures by the National Bureau of Statistics have shown. The NBS report titled “Selected Food Price Watch for the month of April 2022”...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says it will expand its scope to produce data on migration, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and security. The statistician-general of the federation and chief executive officer of NBS, Semiu Adeniran...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Musa Dala Sulaiman, as the Acting Statistician-General of the Federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Sulaiman, whose appointment takes immediate effect, was before now the...