The NBS report showed that while Nigeria's headline food inflation rate stood at 17.52 per cent on a year-on-year basis in June 2026, significant disparities existed across states, with Kogi recording a staggering 53.02 per cent, the highest in the country.
Food prices remained under intense pressure across several Nigerian states in June 2026, with Kogi, Niger and Benue recording the highest year-on-year food inflation rates, according to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The NBS report showed that while Nigeria's headline food inflation rate stood at 17.52 per cent on a year-on-year basis in June 2026, significant disparities existed across states, with Kogi recording a staggering 53.02 per cent, the highest in the country.
Although the national food inflation rate was lower than the 25.41 per cent recorded in June 2025, food prices continued to rise sharply in several states.
Niger State followed Kogi with a year-on-year food inflation rate of 43.83 per cent, while Benue State, widely regarded as Nigeria's food basket because of its extensive agricultural production, recorded the third-highest food inflation rate at 40.83 per cent.
