The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 22.04 per cent on a year-on-year basis in March 2023.
This is according to the NBS Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report for March 2023 released in Abuja on Monday.
According to the report, the figure is 0.13 per cent points higher compared to the 21.91 per cent recorded in February 2023.
It said on a year-on-year basis, the headline inflation rate in March 2023 was 6.13 per cent higher than the rate recorded in March 2022 at 15.92 per cent.