Amid food inflation concerns, NBS claims average healthy diet now N1,255

Oct. 4, 2024 - Guardian Nigeria

The NBS disclosed this in its National Average Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) report released in Abuja yesterday. The NBS described the CoHD as the least expensive combination of locally available items that met globally consistent food-based dietary guidelines.

To compute the CoHD indicator, data on Retail Food Prices, Food Composition Data, and Healthy Diet Standards are required. The commodity that is surprising to everybody is beans; beans have gone out of storage and out of reach,” he said.

The economist attributed the hike in beans’ prices to recent flooding which ravaged food-producing states like Borno, Bauchi, and Sokoto, among others...