The Federal Government, through the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said that prices of essential food items, including beans, eggs, bread, rice and tomatoes, experienced robust hikes in September 2024. The NBS made this known in its Selected Food Prices Watch report for September 2024 released in Abuja on Wednesday. The report said that the average price of 1kg of brown beans increased by 281.97 per cent from N716.97 recorded in September 2023 to N2,738.59 in September 2024. It added that the average price of medium-sized Agric eggs (12 pieces) increased by 137.43 per cent on a year-o…