{"id":19860,"date":"2024-02-15T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=19860"},"modified":"2024-02-15T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T12:44:46","slug":"nigerias-inflation-climbs-to-29-90-in-january-2024-signaling-persistent-economic-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/15\/nigerias-inflation-climbs-to-29-90-in-january-2024-signaling-persistent-economic-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Inflation Climbs to 29.90% in January 2024, Signaling Persistent Economic Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s inflation rate surged to 29.90% in January 2024, marking a notable uptick from the previous month&#8217;s 28.92%, as per the latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).<\/p>\n<p>The increase underscores a continuing trend of rising inflationary pressures within the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NBS report, the inflation rate for January 2024 exhibited a 0.98% point rise compared to December 2023, with an even more substantial increase of 8.08% points compared to January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, on a month-to-month basis, January 2024 saw a 2.64% inflation rate, surpassing the levels observed in December 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s inflation rate surged to 29.90% in January 2024, marking a notable uptick from the previous month&#8217;s 28.92%, as per the latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The increase underscores a continuing trend of rising inflationary pressures within the country. According to the NBS report, the inflation rate for January 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":19863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-19860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19867,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19860\/revisions\/19867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}