{"id":65834,"date":"2025-05-16T11:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65834"},"modified":"2025-05-16T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:39:48","slug":"prices-fall-but-pain-persists-in-many-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/16\/prices-fall-but-pain-persists-in-many-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices Fall but Pain Persists in Many States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s inflation rate eased slightly in April to 23.71 percent, down from 24.23 percent in March, according to new data from the National Bureau of Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Food prices also saw a welcome dip, with the food inflation rate falling to 21.26 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The drop was driven by falling costs of staples such as maize, rice, and yam flour, offering some relief to households across the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, the report reveals a sharp divide in the inflation experience across states.<\/p>\n<p>Ten states and the Federal Capital Territory are still battling inflation rates above 30 percent, with Enugu topping the chart at 36 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Benue recorded the worst food inflation at 51.8 percent, which experts attribute to insecurity disrupting farming and food distribution.<\/p>\n<p>While the national trend signals a slowdown in the rate at which prices are rising, many regions are still grappling with the harsh reality of soaring food costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Nigeria\u2019s inflation rate eased slightly in April to 23.71 percent, down from 24.23 percent in March, according to new data from the National Bureau of Statistics. Food prices also saw a welcome dip, with the food inflation rate falling to 21.26 percent. The drop was driven by falling costs of staples such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65834","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\/65834","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=65834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65836,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65834\/revisions\/65836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}