Nigeria’s inflation increased to 15.15 per cent in December 2025 from 14.45 per cent in November.
This is according to the latest Consumer Price Index and inflation data by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released on Thursday.
The data showed that the country’s inflation spiked by 0.7 per cent on a month-to-month basis.
Meanwhile, food inflation declined by 1.49 per cent to 10.84 per cent in December, down from 11.08 per cent in November.
Accordingly, on a year-on-year basis, food inflation eased from 39.84 per cent in December 2024.
‘The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 131.2 in December 2025, up by 0.7 points from the previous month (130.5).
‘The December 2025 year-on-year headline inflation rate stood at 15.15 per cent relative to the November 2025 headline inflation rate (17.33 per cent).
‘On a year-on-year basis, the December headline inflation rate was 19.65 per cent lower than the rate recorded in December 2024 (34.80 per cent).
‘This shows that the headline inflation rate (year-on-year basis) decreased in December 2025 compared to the same month in the preceding year (i.e., December 2024), though with a different base year, November 2009 = 100’, the NBS report stated.
This comes amid reports that have projected a spike in Nigeria’s inflation in December.
