Nigeria’s headline inflation rate accelerated for the eighth consecutive month in September to 20.77 percent as weak naira stoked a fresh spike in prices, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The NBS said Monday that the inflation rate, which is at a 17-year high, was 4.14 perc
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.
