As the federal government touts an easing of economic pressure with headline inflation dipping to 15.10 percent, residents of Benue and Kogi states are living a different reality. The national average, it turns out, is a statistical illusion.
A staggering 18.15 percent gap now separates Nigerians in the state with the most expensive food from those in the state with the most affordable food. At one end is Benue, the ‘Food Basket of the Nation’, which records the second-highest food inflation at 18.38 percent, slightly behind Kogi at 19.84 pe
As the federal government touts an easing of economic pressure with headline inflation dipping to 15.10 percent, residents of Benue and Kogi states are living a different reality. The national average, it turns out, is a statistical illusion.
A staggering 18.15 percent gap now separates Nigerians in the state with the most expensive food from those in the state with the most affordable food. At one end is Benue, the ‘Food Basket of the Nation’, which records the second-highest food inflation at 18.38 percent, slightly behind Kogi at 19.84 pe
