Tag: Yemi Kale
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Nigeria’s inflation rate to hit 30% by December 2023 – KPMG
Global tax, audit, and business advisory services firm, KPMG, has said despite the reforms introduced by President Bola Tinubu’s administration particularly the removal of fuel subsidy and foreign exchange liberalization, the Nigerian economy is expected to post a weaker growth in the second half of the year.
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Buhari appoints successor as Yemi Kale bows out as Statistician-General of the Federation
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr Simon Harry as the new Statistician-General of the Federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This is according to a statement from Mr Yunusa Abdullahi, Special Adviser, Media and Communications to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning on Thursday. Harry is to…
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NBS to re-base Nigeria’s GDP in 2021
Yemi Kale, the Statistician-General of the Federation and CEO of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said the nation will re-base its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) later in the year. He said this on Thursday in Abuja during a media conference on the significance of the on-going National Survey of Establishment (NSE). He said…
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GDP report: We stood our ground to resist Govt. interference – NBS Boss
Statistician General of the Federation on Thursday said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) stood its ground to ensure there were no interferences from any government entity in the production process of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) report released recently. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the NBS Boss, Dr. Yemi Kale stated this in a Business…
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NBS Boss gets dirty with Reno Omokri over new NBS job report
If the Statistician General of the Federation and CEO of the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Dr. Yemi Kale and Reno Omokri met in real life over discourse on a supposedly new NBS job report, they could have actually thrown physical punches. TheNewsGuru reports, however, the punches are being thrown on Twitter after Reno…
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Nigeria will exit recession by 2018 if…Yemi Kale
The Statistician General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Dr. Yemi Kale has stated the conditions for Nigeria to exit the current economy recession by 2018. Kale spoke in a chat with Economic Confidential at the weekend in Abuja. “If oil prices do not collapse and Niger Delta remains…
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Full Analysis: Unemployment rate rises to 14.2% in Q4 – NBS
The unemployment rate in the country rose to 14.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2016 from the 13.9 per cent recorded at the preceding quarter. This was revealed in the labour force statistics released on Monday by the Statistician General of National Bureau of Statistics of Nigeria, Dr. Yemi Kale. Kale highlights that…