Have you ever come across NBS staff trying to gather data? That is one of the reasons I do not really believe any data coming from the National Bureau of Statistics.Besides, some of the data seem fake to me, as I always believe Nigerian corruption might have eaten deep into the data gathering system. Imagine NBS telling us that unemployment rate in Nigeria is 4%. Can anyone give reason they don’t believe in NBS from first hand experience here?

Seems like you're underestimating thr destructive influences of the druggie?

Since 2015, the NBS has become a department of the APC, a propaganda wing of the government used to churn out fake statistics from their offices. Is it not easier to make a call to one high officer in APC and take an order that says;

"Publish that every hawker in Nigeria is from Ebonyi state "

Or

"Publish that Lagos indegenes are richer than Igbo immigrants "

This will keep the press busy, reno talking trash and the attention of the masses diverted while they are robbed blind by the politicians.

Likely will you see any government agency free of corruption and it stinks...

Well, I believe it when they release internally generated revenue (IGR) data because the reports come from state.

Also, I believe their crime reports per state because they come from the Nigerian police stats and other security operatives, and I have no reason to doubt it.

Reports about poverty, unemployment, consumption and GDP are based on estimates that are vague or totally FALSE.

Not on the employment data. They change the standard

Akinomoakin021:
Have you ever come across NBS staff trying to gather data? That is one of the reasons I do not really believe any data coming from the National Bureau of Statistics.Besides, some of the data seem fake to me, as I always believe Nigerian corruption might have eaten deep into the data gathering system. Imagine NBS telling us that unemployment rate in Nigeria is 4%. Can anyone give reason they don’t believe in NBS from first hand experience here?