{"id":8004,"date":"2025-08-15T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsdemo.website\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:30:00","slug":"inflation-slows-to-2188-in-july-even-as-food-prices-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/?p=8004","title":{"rendered":"Inflation slows to 21.88% in July even as food prices climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headline inflation eased for a fourth straight month in July to 21.88% from 22.22% in June following an update to the CPI basket and base year. However, food inflation ticked higher to 22.74%, underscoring persistent pressure on household budgets. The Central Bank maintained the policy rate at 27.5%, signalling a preference to consolidate disinflation trends while monitoring exchange-rate and supply-side risks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/nigerias-inflation-eases-july-food-price-rise-2025-08-15\/' rel='nofollow'>https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/nigerias-inflation-eases-july-food-price-rise-2025-08-15\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline inflation eased for a fourth straight month in July to 21.88% from 22.22% in June following an update to the CPI basket and base year. However, food inflation ticked higher to 22.74%, underscoring persistent pressure on household budgets. The Central Bank maintained the policy rate at 27.5%, signalling a preference to consolidate disinflation trends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[111,84,112,113],"class_list":["post-8004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-food-inflation","tag-inflation","tag-monetary-policy","tag-nbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}