
ABUJA, Nigeria – The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reports that Nigeria’s headline inflation rate dropped to 18.02 per cent in September 2025, marking a slowdown from 20.12 per cent recorded in August 2025.
The update, published on Wednesday in the bureau’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) September 2025 Report, signals a modest easing of inflationary pressures across key sectors.
“In September 2025, the headline inflation rate eased to 18.02 per cent relative to August’s 20.12 per cent,” the NBS said. “This represents a decline of 2.1 per cent month-on-month.”
On a year-on-year basis, the headline inflation rate was 14.68 percentage points lower than the 32.70 per cent recorded in September 2024, indicating an overall moderation in consumer prices compared with last year.
The report noted that month-on-month inflation stood at 0.72 per cent in September 2025, slightly below 0.74 per cent in August, showing that price increases slowed for the second consecutive month.
“This means that the rate of increase in the average price level was lower in September compared to August 2025,” the NBS explained.