Nigeria Data Remains Elusive Weeks After Statistics Website Hack
- National Bureau of Statistics website was hacked on Dec. 18
- Key inflation report is due for publication in mid January
Lagos, Nigeria.
Photographer: Adetona Omokanye/BloombergThis article is for subscribers only.
Key data on the Nigerian economy remains inaccessible, nearly three weeks after the nation’s statistics agency shut down its website after it had been hacked.
The National Bureau of Statistics website provides a convenient online portal to key economic gauges for Africa’s top oil producer. The agency closed the site on Dec. 18, while warning against using any information posted on it until it was fully restored.