Inflation rate drops to 13.34% in March —NBS (Punch)

The National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday said the country’s Consumer Price Index which measures inflation rose by 13.34 per cent (year-on-year) in March 2018.

The bureau in the report said the 13.34 per cent rate for March is 0.99 percentage points less than the 14.33 per cent recorded in February. The report said this is the fourteenth consecutive months since January 2017 that the country would be experiencing slowdown in inflation. Read more