Higher food prices fuel inflation amid emergency

Nigeria’s headline inflation rose for the sixth consecutive time to 22.79 percent in June, largely fuelled by soaring food prices and petrol price hike, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday. The inflation rate in Africa’s biggest economy rose to a new 17-year high from 22.41 percent in the
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