By Ayomide Otitoju
The NBS said the July figure represented a 0.48 percentage-point decrease from the previous month.
On a month-on-month basis, headline inflation stood at 1.57 per cent in July, down from 1.66 per cent in June.
The bureau said the decline indicated that the average price level increased at a slower rate in July than in the previous month.
Despite the decline in headline inflation, food inflation increased on a year-on-year basis to 20.31 per cent in July.
The NBS attributed the food inflation rate to increases in the prices of commodities including rice, water yam, plantain, crayfish, fresh pepper, onions, carrots, tomatoes, garri, beef, eggs, guinea corn, ginger and plantain flour.
On a month-on-month basis, food inflation rose to 5.56 per cent in July from 3.75 per cent in June, representing an increase of 1.82 percentage points.
The highest month-on-month food inflation rates were recorded in Adamawa at 17.02 per cent, Lagos at 13.48 per cent and Borno at 13.26 per cent.
Meanwhile, Jigawa, Kebbi and Bauchi recorded declines of 3.68 per cent, 3.67 per cent and 1.85 per cent respectively.
On a year-on-year basis, Adamawa recorded the highest food inflation rate at 51.36 per cent, followed by Katsina at 30.84 per cent and Zamfara at 30.65 per cent.
Borno recorded the slowest year-on-year increase at -0.31 per cent, followed by Nasarawa at 6.88 per cent and Kebbi at 12.50 per cent.
