Food inflation on a year-on-year basis was highest in Lagos, Imo and Ondo states in September 2026, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said.
The NBS disclosed this in its Consumer Price Index report for September 2026, released on Thursday.
According to the bureau, on a year-on-year basis, food inflation was highest in Lagos at 34.40 per cent, followed by Imo at 33.79 per cent and Ondo at 31.49 per cent.
In contrast, Taraba at -7.47 per cent, Yobe at -0.37 per cent and Borno at 2.18 per cent recorded the slowest rise in food inflation on a year-on-year basis in September.
On a month-on-month basis, the NBS said food inflation was highest in Imo at 5.15 per cent, Ondo at 4.46 per cent and Oyo at 3.82 per cent.
On the other hand, it said Adamawa at -13.84 per cent, Kano at -11.01 per cent and Bauchi at -10.21 per cent recorded the slowest rise in food inflation on a month-on-month basis.
The NBS said the Food inflation rate in September 2026 was 19.59 per cent on a year-on-year basis and stood at 20.16 per cent in the same month of the preceding year (September 2025).
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It said that, on a month-on-month basis, the Food inflation rate in September 2026 was -1.55 per cent, down by 2.57 percentage points from August 2026 (1.02 per cent).
The bureau said in September 2026, the All-Items inflation rate on a Year-on-Year basis was highest in Imo at 30.04 per cent, Enugu at 22.38 per cent and Niger at 22.05 per cent, while Taraba at 1.78 per cent, Bauchi at 2.84 per cent and Adamawa at 3.66 per cent recorded the lowest rise in headline inflation on a Year-on-Year basis.
“On a Month-on-Month basis, however, September 2026 recorded the highest increases in Imo (8.64 per cent), Kaduna (4.46 per cent), and Sokoto (3.01 per cent), while Adamawa (-6.10 per cent), Bauchi (-5.31 per cent), and Kano (-4.49 per cent) recorded the lowest rise in the Month-on-Month inflation,” the statistics office said.
