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Selected food item retail prices

Inflation & Prices · Source: NBS · monthly

International comparability — CSA: Economic · CPI Manual 2020

Average retail prices of selected food items in Nigeria, in nominal Naira, published monthly by the National Bureau of Statistics in its Selected Food Price Watch. Individual food items are carried on a per-item breakdown, with pack or portion sizes shown in each item's label. Figures are reported at the national level and for the six geopolitical zones; there is no per-state tier, because the National Bureau of Statistics publishes state prices only as chart images in the report rather than as machine-readable data. The national figure is the average of the state averages and the zone figures are zone averages; both are averages, not sums, and should not be added together. The current monthly data run from November 2024; an earlier national-only set of item prices for 2019 (from the Annual Abstract of Statistics) is retained for historical reference. Where the item basket was repackaged between December 2024 and January 2025, the earlier and later item labels are both kept. Source: National Bureau of Statistics.

Selected food item retail prices: NGN 2,347, May 2026, up 128.63 NGN on April 2026.

Observations

5,600

November 2024 – May 2026

Coverage

6 zones

zone+national

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Figures are in nominal naira — the amounts as reported for each period, not adjusted for inflation. Over a multi-year span, part of any increase reflects rising prices rather than real growth.

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Every published value — 19 periods. The most recent periods are shown by default; expand the table for the full history, or use the downloads above for everything.

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Selected food item retail prices — 19 periods by geography (NGN), 0 geographies plus 1 total column. The most recent 12 periods are shown; use the button above for the full history.
PeriodNigeriatotal
June 20252,463.7
July 20252,484.41
August 20252,086.15
September 20252,052.46
October 20252,023.83
November 20252,035.59
December 20252,054.63
January 20262,065.76
February 20262,108.99
March 20262,144.7
April 20262,218.46
May 20262,347.09

Geopolitical zones

The six geopolitical zones are regional reference averages, shown separately from the 0 geographies above — they are not additive peers of the states and do not appear on the map.

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Selected food item retail prices — geopolitical zones — 19 periods by zone (NGN), 6 zones. The most recent 12 periods are shown; use the button above for the full history.
PeriodNorth CentralNorth EastNorth WestSouth EastSouth SouthSouth West
June 20252,096.42,472.632,215.532,736.642,944.092,464.96
July 20252,100.662,447.472,143.712,752.243,290.082,337.64
August 20251,689.31,898.862,035.452,665.412,469.061,929.93
September 20251,660.761,874.642,008.82,647.342,464.151,830.79
October 20251,637.091,929.971,979.062,439.172,467.591,831.27
November 20251,661.881,863.971,997.992,480.482,477.241,874.7
December 20251,766.861,971.621,994.062,318.292,493.241,885.71
January 20261,785.131,968.662,004.362,333.432,510.411,894.21
February 20261,827.542,006.662,066.312,418.332,523.741,916.93
March 20261,848.962,042.542,087.672,435.662,550.412,010.23
April 20261,863.592,069.542,154.972,467.472,570.742,295.67
May 20262,119.732,172.712,234.322,540.672,632.082,471.97

Methodology and provenance

Where this data comes from and when Prism last updated it. Any narrative below is the data provider’s own wording, reproduced with its source reference — Prism adds no interpretation.

Source document

Last updated 6 August 2026

Selected Food Price WatchNBS

  • Selected Food Prices by Item (Monthly) — national reference mean + 6 geopolitical-zone means · The average of all these prices is reported for each state and the total average for the states, is the average for the country. (NBS Selected Food Price Watch, Methodology, report p.5 / catalog-162 abstract)

    NBS self-collected field survey. ONE series with a food_item dimension. H166 Option A: national reference mean + 6 non-additive geopolitical-zone means (finest available grain); NO machine-readable state data (per-state prices are full-page bar-chart images in the PDF), so no state tier. Highest/lowest state extremes carried as annotations on the national observation. Basket repackaging Dec-2024 to Jan-2025 kept as distinct food_item members (source revision).

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Methodology

Fieldwork is done solely by over 700 NBS Staff in all States of the federation supported by supervisors who are monitored by internal and external observers. Prices are collected across all the 774 local government across all the States and the FCT from 10,000 respondents and locations. the CPI is calculate [sic] using the weight derived from household consumption expenditure on goods and services and the actual prices of goods and services collected from the field. The average of all these prices is reported for each state and the total average for the states is the average for the country. NBS audit team subsequently conducts randomly selected verification of prices recorded.
Source: Selected Food Price Watch — Methodology (Selected_Food_Report_Nov_2024.pdf), p.5

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Originator & publisher
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
Publication
Selected Food Price Watch
Printed source caption
The average of all these prices is reported for each state and the total average for the states, is the average for the country. (NBS Selected Food Price Watch, Methodology, report p.5 / catalog-162 abstract)
Publication reference
NGA-NBS-FOODPW
Catalog record
Catalog 162
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"Selected food item retail prices", NBS, Selected Food Price Watch, ref. NGA-NBS-FOODPW. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-prices-selected-food-prices-by-item-nga.
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How this relates to nearby series

  • Earlier vintage — not directly comparable

    This series carries Maize grain yellow sold loose for the twelve months of 2019 only, national, as printed in the NBS Annual Abstract of Statistics. The continuing measure is the NBS Selected Food Price Watch run — monthly from November 2024, national plus the six geopolitical zones, every item on a food_item breakdown — which is the canonical source for this price. The two do not overlap in period, so they are cross-referenced and must not be spliced into one continuous line. For public browsing the 2019 items are served together as "Selected Food Prices by Item, 2019 (Annual Abstract of Statistics)".

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Source: NBS. Source publication: Selected Food Price Watch. Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Catalogued by Prism; May 2026.