The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says prices of beans, eggs, bread, rice, yam, and other food items witnessed significant price increases in August 2024.
The NBS said this in its Selected Food Prices Watch report for August 2024 released in Abuja on Wednesday.
The report said that the average price of 1kg of brown beans increased by 271.55 per cent from N692.95 recorded in August 2023 to N2,574.63 in August 2024.
“On a month-on-month basis, 1kg of brown beans increased by 5.31 per cent in August from the N2,444.81 recorded in July 2024.”
It said that the average price of medium-sized Agric eggs (12 pieces) increased by 121.92 per cent on a year-on-year basis from N1,031.55 recorded in August 2023 to N2,289.19 in August 2024.
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