Nigeria, Jan. 31 -- The average Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) was highest in the South-west zone at N979 per day in December 2023, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said.

The statistics office in its report titled "Cost of a Healthy Diet December 2023" published on Wednesday, said the National average CoHD was N786 per adult per day in December 2023.

The bureau explained that the CoHD is the least expensive combination of locally available items that meet globally consistent food-based dietary guidelines, used as a measure of physical and economic access to healthy diets.

This, it said, is a lower bound (or floor) of the cost per adult per day excluding the cost of transportation and meal preparation.

"The National average C...