Former statistician-general of the federation, Mr. Yemi Kale, has criticised the new methodology used in computing Nigeria’s unemployment data, noting that it’s irrelevant for policy making....
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Simon B. Harry as the new Statistician-General of the Federation to replace Yemi Kale. Harry will head...
The Statistician-General of the Federation/CEO National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Dr. Yemi Kale, has disclosed that Nigeria would rebase its GDP later this year. Dr. Kale...
OBINNA EZUGWU Nigeria’s unemployment rate has risen to 21.1 percent according to the ‘Labor Force Statistics: Unemployment and Underemployment Report’ released on Friday by the National...
OBINNA EZUGWU A new report, the COVID-19 impact monitoring report, released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said 30 percent of Nigerian households battled...
Adebayo Obajemu The National Bureau of Statistics in a recent report revealed that the value of Nigeria’s total trade in the first quarter of 2020 was...
Adebayo Obajemu “We established the poverty line at N137,430 and any individual or family that spends below this on food in a year will be classified...
Adebayo Obajemu According to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria received $5.85 billion capital importation (inflows) in the first quarter (Q1) of...
Adebayo Obajemu The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently reported that the Federal Government in the first quarter of 2020 generated a total sum of N338.9...