The Nigeria’s economy has recorded its fifth consecutive decline in inflation rate as the consumer price index (CPI), which measures the rate of change in prices of goods and services, dropped from to 17.01 percent in August from 17.38 recorded in July.
The implication of this is that the increase in the prices of goods and services continued to rise in August 2021 — but at a slower pace than it did in the previous month.
In a report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), titled, ‘Consumer Price Index Report for August’, released on Wednesday.
This rate is 0.37 percent points lower than 17.38 per cent recorded last month.
it would be recalled that since March 2021, Nigeria’s inflation rate has been on a steady decline monthly as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) projected it may drop to 13 percent this year and a single-digit rate by 2022.
According to the CPI report, month-on-month basis, the headline index increased by 1.02 percent in August 2021, adding that this is a 0.09 percent rate higher than the 0.93 per cent recorded in July 2021.
The report further stated that the composite food index rose by 20.30 percent in August 2021 compared to 21.03 percent in July 2021.
NBS said the rise occurred due to increases in prices of bread and cereals, milk, cheese and egg, oils and fats, potatoes, yam and other tubers, food products, meat and coffee, tea and cocoa.
On a month-on-month basis, it said the food sub-index increased by 1.06 per cent in August 2021, up by 0.20 percent points from the 0.86 percent recorded in July 2021
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