Kogi, Lagos, and Rivers are the most expensive states in Nigeria, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

NBS’s November latest Consumer Price Index disclosed that the All-Items Inflation rate is the highest in the three states.

Accordingly, the report stated that Kogi (33.28 per cent), Lagos (32.30 per cent), and Rivers (32.25 per cent) states recorded the prices on a year-on-year basis.

Meanwhile, Borno (22.47 per cent), Katsina (24.91 per cent), and Plateau (25.53 per cent) recorded the slowest rise in Headline inflation on a Year-on-Year basis.

On a month-on-month basis, however, November 2023 recorded the highest increases in Kano (3.55 per cent), Kebbi (3.34 per cent), Borno (3.24 per cent), while Taraba (0.74 per cent), Anambra (1.00 per cent) and Enugu (1.18 per cent) recorded the slowest rise in Month-on-Month inflation.

Narrowing the analysis to food inflation in November 2023, on a Year-on-Year basis, Kogi was highest (41.29 per cent), Kwara (40.72 per cent) and Rivers (40.22 per cent), while Bauchi (26.14 per cent), Borno (27.34 per cent) and Jigawa (27.63 per cent) recorded the slowest rise in food inflation on a Year-on-Year basis.

On a Month-on-Month basis, however, in November 2023, food inflation was highest in Cross River (4.37 per cent), Edo (3.95 per cent) and Rivers (3.91 per cent), while Anambra (0.63 per cent), Oyo (0.91 per cent) and Bauchi (1.00 per cent) recorded the slowest rise in inflation on a Month-on-Month basis.

DAILY POST reports that Nigeria’s inflation in November rose to 28.20 per cent.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2023/12/17/kogi-lagos-rivers-most-expensive-states-in-nigeria-nbs/

Tor

Ok

And people are relocating without minding the cost.

Anambra is always in the news for the right reasons.

Sometimes I am tempted to doubt these reports, how can kogi an agrarian and poor state record the highest food inflation in the country, we should have asked what factor is driving the price higher in kogi, is it because most food is imported ? And no
Is it because kogi is difficult to access ? Ans. on the contrary kogi is the easiest state to access in Nigeria as it shares boundaries with 10 states and the FCT
Ok, is it that kogites have high purchasing power ? The answer is no , they don't

So what could be responsible for high cost of food in an agrarian kogi state ?

Lovemeharder:
And people are relocating without minding the cost.

Especially those 5th class slaves who say Lagos is a no man's land.
You should see their bus parks every January. You would think there is war there.

Hmmm
This research get as e be. Lagos is supposed to have one of the lowest food prices due to the sea port and land port...

Kogi
How did Kogi make it to the list I disagree

Hehehe.

Lagos and Rivers I understand,but what is Kogi doing in that list.


Kogi state that is suppose to be feeding the country is having food price inflation, Yahaya Bello is really a very useless and clueless man.

If only Yahaya Bello used the money he used in sponsoring thuggery and frivolities to support agriculture in the state,the story would have been different.

hardship states

Kogi state??, I wholly doubt the integrity of this report. Data don't lie but data collection process can be compromise and bias.....

crossfm:
Hehehe.

Lagos and Rivers I understand,but what is Kogi doing in that list.

Am still wondering what kogi is doing there

Too much beggars are in Lagos. They too like free free things there. That is why some people like going there to set up 2 by 2 shops and increase their selling prices too high for their hosts to afford thereby forcing them to run to their governors wives to beg for food

SoNature:


Source: https://dailypost.ng/2023/12/17/kogi-lagos-rivers-most-expensive-states-in-nigeria-nbs/

Kogi surrounded by water, but one of the states with serious water problems, because NO government exist for the people. Rivers, oyel money, because everyone thinks you work in AGIP. Lagos, too much owomida, and informal taxes raising costs.

Objectivist04:
Sometimes I am tempted to doubt these reports, how can kogi an agrarian and poor state record the highest food inflation in the country, we should have asked what factor is driving the price higher in kogi, is it because most food is imported ? And no
Is it because kogi is difficult to access ? Ans. on the contrary kogi is the easiest state to access in Nigeria as it shares boundaries with 10 states and the FCT
Ok, is it that kogites have high purchasing power ? The answer is no , they don't

So what could be responsible for high cost of food in an agrarian kogi state ?

some of the stats are mere projections without facts

Three storms that rise against Lagosians areň
House rent
Transportation
Food

No Delta no Anambra state, this list m it must be from inec

Objectivist04:
Sometimes I am tempted to doubt these reports, how can kogi an agrarian and poor state record the highest food inflation in the country, we should have asked what factor is driving the price higher in kogi, is it because most food is imported ? And no
Is it because kogi is difficult to access ? Ans. on the contrary kogi is the easiest state to access in Nigeria as it shares boundaries with 10 states and the FCT
Ok, is it that kogites have high purchasing power ? The answer is no , they don't

So what could be responsible for high cost of food in an agrarian kogi state ?

There has been a flux of investments in the mining sector into Kogi. This has attracted people from outside the state, thus, pushing up demand for certain goods and services. Where the supply is limited, but demand is high, inflation is bound to occur. Also, herdsmen have prevented farmers from ploughing and harvesting their crops resulting in constrained supply.

What is kogi doing on that list

When the silly people migrate to this place, without thoroughly checked, they begin to complain about cost of living

Lagos ?

Objectivist04:
Sometimes I am tempted to doubt these reports, how can kogi an agrarian and poor state record the highest food inflation in the country, we should have asked what factor is driving the price higher in kogi, is it because most food is imported ? And no
Is it because kogi is difficult to access ? Ans. on the contrary kogi is the easiest state to access in Nigeria as it shares boundaries with 10 states and the FCT
Ok, is it that kogites have high purchasing power ? The answer is no , they don't

So what could be responsible for high cost of food in an agrarian kogi state ?

Kogi is out of it. Most food in lagos come from kogi

Life's Hard in all 36 States because rice is sold same

crossfm:
Hehehe.

Lagos and Rivers I understand,but what is Kogi doing in that list.


Kogi state that is suppose to be feeding the country is having food price inflation, Yahaya Bello is really a very useless and clueless man.

If only Yahaya Bello used the money he used in sponsoring thuggery and frivolities to support agriculture in the state,the story would have been different.

The major problem is the ATTITUDE of the people. Government is only a part of the problem. BTW I currently live in Kogi State. I think the report is regrettably true.

This nbs people go wake up begin dish out nonsense statistics to us

Objectivist04:
Sometimes I am tempted to doubt these reports, how can kogi an agrarian and poor state record the highest food inflation in the country, we should have asked what factor is driving the price higher in kogi, is it because most food is imported ? And no
Is it because kogi is difficult to access ? Ans. on the contrary kogi is the easiest state to access in Nigeria as it shares boundaries with 10 states and the FCT
Ok, is it that kogites have high purchasing power ? The answer is no , they don't

So what could be responsible for high cost of food in an agrarian kogi state ?

landmass people.
Kogi is bigger than southeast east put together bla bla bla. But Anambra has double of Kogi agricultural output with many areas uncultivated.