{"id":196878,"date":"2026-03-17T03:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerias-inflation-eases-to-15-06-in-february"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:15:27","slug":"nigerias-inflation-eases-to-15-06-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-inflation-eases-to-15-06-in-february","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s inflation eases to 15.06% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Nigeria\u2019s inflation rate eased to 15.06 per cent in February 2026, down from 15.10 per cent in January.<\/p>\n<p>The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, disclosed this in its February Consumer Price Index and inflation report released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NBS, the country\u2019s headline inflation declined by 0.04 percentage points on a month-to-month basis.<\/p>\n<p>However, food inflation rose to 12.12 per cent in February from 8.89 per cent the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFebruary 2026, the headline inflation rate eased to 15.06 per cent, down from 15.10 per cent in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a month-on-month basis, the headline inflation rate in February 2026 was 2.01%, which was 4.89% higher than the rate recorded in January 2026 (-2.88%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that in February 2026, the rate of increase in the average price level was higher than the rate of increase in the average price level in January 2026,\u201d NBS stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Derivatives Company, FDC, had earlier forecasted that February\u2019s headline inflation would drop to 14.07 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Nigeria\u2019s inflation rate eased to 15.06 per cent in February 2026, down from 15.10 per cent in January. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, disclosed this in its February Consumer Price Index and inflation report released on Monday. According to the NBS, the country\u2019s headline inflation declined by 0.04 percentage points on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":196877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-196878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria\u2019s inflation eases to 15.06% in February - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s inflation rate eased to 15.06 per cent in February 2026, down from 15.10 per cent in January. 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