Sokoto, Edo, Borno Residents Pay Highest For Food As Inflation Hits 33.88%

Residents of Sokoto, Edo, and Borno states paid the highest food prices in Nigeria as inflation shot to 33.88 per cent in October 2024.

Nigeria’s headline inflation rate rose to 33.88 per cent in October from the 32.70 per cent recorded in September largely due to high prices of petroleum products.

The October 2024 headline inflation rate increased by 1.18 percent points compared to the September 2024 inflation rate. On a year-on-year basis, the inflation rate was 6.55 per cent points higher than the rate recorded in October 2023 (27.33 per cent).

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According to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, the food inflation rate in October 2024 was 39.16 per cent on a year-on-year basis, 7.64 per cent points higher compared to the rate recorded in October 2023 (31.52 per cent).

The NBS attributed the rise in food inflation on a year-on-year basis to increases in prices of guinea corn, rice, maize grains, etc.

In October on a year-on-year basis was highest in Sokoto (52.18 per cent), Edo (46.55 per cent), Borno (45.85 per cent), while Kwara (31.68 per cent), Kogi (33.30 per cent), and Rivers (33.87 per cent) recorded the slowest rise in Food inflation on Year-on-year basis.

On a month-on-month basis, however, October 2024 food inflation was highest in Adamawa (5.08 per cent), Sokoto (4.86 per cent), Yobe (4.34 per cent), while Kwara (1.11 per cent), Ondo (1.31 per cent) and Kogi (1.50 per cent) recorded the slowest rise in food inflation on month-on-month basis.

The latest figure shows that the inflation rate increased in October 2024 when compared to the same month in the preceding year.

On a month-on-month basis, the headline inflation rate in October 2024 was 2.64 per cent, which was 0.12 percent higher than the rate recorded in September 2024 (2.52 per cent).

“This means that in October 2024, the rate of increase in the average price level was higher than the rate of increase in the average price level in September 2024,” the NBS said in a data that was released on Friday.

On a year-on-year basis, in October 2024, urban inflation rate was 36.38 percent, 7.09% points higher than the 29.29 percent recorded in October 2023. On a month-on-month basis, the urban inflation rate was 2.75 percent in October 2024, this was 0.08 percent points higher compared to September 2024 (2.67%).

The corresponding twelve-month average for the Urban inflation rate was 34.52 percent in October 2024. This was 9.76 percent points higher compared to the 24.76% reported in October 2023.

On the other hand, rural inflation rate in October 2024 was 31.59 percent on a year-on-year basis. This was 6.01 percent higher compared to the 25.58 percent recorded in October 2023.

On a month-on-month basis, the rural inflation rate in October 2024 was 2.53 percent, up by 0.14 percent compared to September 2024 (2.39%). The corresponding twelve-month average for the Rural inflation rate in October