Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Falls To 15.99% In October

• The drop in the headline rate was driven by easing annual food inflation…

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Nigeria continues to buck the global trend of rising prices, with consumer prices ticking lower for the seventh consecutive month.

Nigeria’s inflation rate fell to 15.99 per cent in October compared with the same period last year, and was 0.64 percent lower than September’s annualised reading, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday.

The drop in the headline rate was driven by easing annual food inflation, with prices falling from 19.5 percent in September to 18.3 percent in October.

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The downward trend, according to analysts, is likely to give the country’s monetary policymakers sufficient space to hold interest rates steady when they meet next week, rather than be compelled to increase them to cool rising prices – a move that could also weigh on economic growth in Africa’s largest economy.

Inflation has exceeded the central bank’s targeted rate of 6 percent – 9 percent for years. Forizs said that while it is like to keep edging lower over the coming months, inflation is unlikely to fall within the central bank’s target range “any time soon.”

She added that ‘increasingly distortionary” foreign exchange rules will continue to weigh on the country’s currency, the naira, which will “keep imported goods inflation high.”

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