{"id":35360,"date":"2021-01-19T20:16:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=35360"},"modified":"2021-01-19T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:34:08","slug":"average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs","title":{"rendered":"Average bus fare in Nigeria increased by 79% in one year \u2013 NBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday the average bus fare paid by Nigerian commuters within the city increased by 79 percent in one year.<\/p>\n<p>NBS, which disclosed this in its Transport Fare Watch, said the average fare paid by Nigerians increased from N198.58 in December 2019 to N354.9 in December last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report published in December, the average bus journey within the city was up 79 percent Year-on-Year; and 6 percent on Month-on-Month basis.<\/p>\n<p>The average intercity bus journey also went up by 41 percent year-on-year and 5 percent in month-on-month basis<\/p>\n<p>For Okada ride, the average price paid by Nigerians was up 125 percent on year-to-year and 60 percent on month-to-month.<\/p>\n<p>Average airfare went up by 19 percent, year-on-year and 0.42 percent month-on-month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents of Zamfara, Bauchi and Cross River paid the highest bus fare while those in Abia, Anambra, and Borno paid the lowest within the city,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday the average bus fare paid by Nigerian commuters within the city increased by 79 percent in one year. NBS, which disclosed this in its Transport Fare Watch, said the average fare paid by Nigerians increased from N198.58 in December 2019 to N354.9 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,2553,676,254],"class_list":["post-35360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-bus-fare-in-nigeria","tag-nbs","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>Average bus fare in Nigeria increased by 79% in one year \u2013 NBS - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday the average bus fare paid by Nigerian commuters within the city i ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Average bus fare in Nigeria increased by 79% in one year \u2013 NBS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday the average bus fare paid by Nigerian commuters within the city i ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-19T20:16:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-600709e1b5551.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"387\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Average bus fare in Nigeria increased by 79% in one year \u2013 NBS\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-19T20:16:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs\"},\"wordCount\":163,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-600709e1b5551.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"bus fare in Nigeria\",\"NBS\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/average-bus-fare-in-nigeria-increased-by-79-in-one-year-nbs\",\"name\":\"Average bus fare in Nigeria increased by 79% in one year \u2013 NBS - 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