National Bureau of Statistics has identified Benue, Delta, and Borno states as the least expensive states to live in Nigeria.
NBS made this revelation in its July Consumer Price Index and Inflation Data released on Thursday.
It indicated that Benue, Delta and Borno states recorded the slowest rise in Headline Inflation on a year-on-year basis.
According to the NBS report, while Benue’s headline inflation stood at 27.28 percent, Delta, 28.06 percent, Borno recorded 28.33 percent on a year-on-year basis.
On a month-on-month basis, Taraba recorded 0.17 percent, Kwara, 0.62 percent and Ondo 0.91 percent making them the slowest headline inflation rise.
Conversely, while Abuja recorded 3.91 percent, Borno, 3.84 percent, Enugu recorded 3.76 percent, giving them the highest increases.
According to the data released earlier on Thursday by the NBS, Nigeria’s headline inflation fell to 33.90 percent in July, the first time a drop has been recorded since 2022, when it stood at 21.34 percent.
NBS also reported that reduction in the prices of garri, fufu and others pushed food inflation to drop in July to 39.53 percent from 40.87 percent in June.
