The International Labour Organization (ILO) has said that timely and reliable labour statistics remains an essential requirement for evidence-based policy-making in any given society. This was disclosed by the Director of ILO Country Office for Nigeria, Mr. Dennis Zulu, at the Three Day National Capacity building Workshop on Labour Migration Statistics in Nigeria. Zulu, who […]
The Economic Intelligence Group of Access Bank says it sees inflation rate (year-on-year) in April to sustain the downward trend started last year, easing to 12.56 per cent compared to 13.34 per cent in March. The lender said though the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is scheduled to release the inflation figure for April 2018 […]
Full year report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has showed that the Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 1.92 while the economy grew by 0.82 per cent in 2017. The 0.82 per cent growth in GDP is an improvement over the contraction of -1.58 per cent which the economy recorded in 2016 […]
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) latest overview of Nigeria’s economy between April and June 2017 has shown that the economy recorded a 0.55 percent positive productivity growth rate during the quarter and that Nigeria has exited from the recession it slipped into in the first quarter of 2016. Many Nigerians heaved a sigh of […]