Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria has assured Nigerians of a bumper Christmas which will be triggered by a crash in the prices of food products.
The CBN helmsman made this known while answering questions raised at the 282nd Monetary Policy Meeting on Tuesday. He noted that agricultural produce would flood the Nigerian market by Christmas while adding that Nigeria has not reported any major flood incident in 2021.
“We must continue price stability that is conducive to growth. Agric prices you will see luckily will below. In fact, in 2021, we did not hear of the case of flood at all, we are very thankful to God.
“As a result of that, we are expecting a very bumper harvest in all our agricultural products and if this happens, what that will do is that it will considerably dampen inflation and prices which will continue to help our attempt to continue to reduce inflation and moderate prices in the economy.”
Over the years Nigeria’s inflation has seen a record rise with 18.17 per cent growth recorded in April 2021.
But over the last six months, inflation has moderated to 15.99 per cent, but food inflation has since become a nightmare to the monetary authority.
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Although food prices have gradually moderated in October to 18.34 per cent, food prices once rose as high as 21.83 per cent in June.
When the governor came into office, his target was to keep inflation at a single digit of between six per cent to nine per cent, a promise which experts believe is ambitious.
