Benue, Ekiti, and Kebbi are the states in Nigeria with the highest annual rates of food inflation, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
This was disclosed by NBS in its April Consumer Price Index, which was made public Thursday.
Benue has the biggest annual increase in food inflation, according to the report, at 51.76 percent, followed by Ekiti at 34.05 percent and Kebbi at 33.82 percent.
This indicates that the states of Benue, Ekiti, and Kebbi had the most increases in food prices.
On the other hand, the states with the slowest annual increases in food inflation were Ogun (9.91 percent), Adamawa (9.52 percent), and Ebonyi (7.19 percent).
The states with the biggest increases in food inflation month over month were Benue, Ekiti, and Yobe.
In light of this, Benue’s monthly food inflation rate in April was 25.59 percent, 16.73 percent, and 13.92 percent.
The spike in attacks in Nigeria’s North Central state over the last two months, which have left many people displaced and killed numerous people, may be linked to the rise in food prices in Benue.
The food inflation rate, however, decreased month over month in Ebonyi (-14.43 percent), Kano (-11.37 percent), and Ogun (7.06 percent).
According to NBS data, Nigeria’s headline food inflation rate in April was 21.26 percent on an annual basis.
Food inflation decreased from 2.18 percent in March 2025 to 2.06 percent in April. The decline was ascribed to “the rate of decrease in the average prices of rice, soybeans, brown beans, dried okra, yam flour, wheat grain, and maize (corn) flour.”
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