{"id":65114,"date":"2025-04-30T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65114"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:43:45","slug":"nbs-unveils-live-food-price-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/30\/nbs-unveils-live-food-price-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"NBS Unveils Live Food Price Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a bold move to deepen market transparency and empower consumers, the National Bureau of Statistics has launched Nigeria\u2019s first real time daily food price tracker.<\/p>\n<p>Unveiled in Abuja, the crowd sourced initiative captures current prices of essential food items including rice, beans, yam, and garri from markets in all thirty six states and the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n<p>Data is pulled daily from various sources such as shops, supermarkets, and roadside vendors, and made accessible to the public through an interactive dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>Statistician General Prince Semiu Adeniran described the launch as a game changer in the country\u2019s drive toward data driven decision making.<\/p>\n<p>He said the system would not only modernise price tracking but also build public trust in government statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens are encouraged to contribute to the data pool and provide feedback to enhance the credibility and accuracy of the platform.<\/p>\n<p>With food inflation biting hard, the new tool is expected to offer Nigerians a clearer picture of market trends and help guide personal and policy decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo In a bold move to deepen market transparency and empower consumers, the National Bureau of Statistics has launched Nigeria\u2019s first real time daily food price tracker. Unveiled in Abuja, the crowd sourced initiative captures current prices of essential food items including rice, beans, yam, and garri from markets in all thirty six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65114","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\/65114","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65116,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65114\/revisions\/65116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}