THUR OCT 16 2025-theGBJournal| The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has recommended six key strategic policy interventions it believes will help consolidate the current gains and sustain the disinflation momentum.
The CPPE, in making the recommendations, suggests that with consistency, coordination, and structural reforms, Nigeria can achieve a stable single-digit inflation rate over the medium term — anchoring growth, improving welfare, and restoring confidence in the economy.
The recommendations follows the latest inflation figures which sees headline inflation easing to 18.02% in September 2025 from 20.12% in August, sustaining the downward trend that began earlier in the year.
Month-on-month inflation also slowed marginally from 0.74% to 0.72%, while food inflation dropped sharply from 21.87% in August to 16.87% in September. Similarly, core inflation moderated from 20.33% to 19.53%.
”These developments suggest that inflationary pressures are gradually subsiding and that recent policy measures are beginning to yield results,” the CPPE said in note to theG&BJournal late Wednesday.
The CPPE wants to see food security and Agricultural productivity enhanced-the first in the list.
It suggests this could be achieved by strengthening security in farming regions to facilitate production and market access. Within this bracket, it recommends expansion of irrigation and storage infrastructure to stabilize food supply across seasons while promoting mechanization and input access through targeted support programs.
It equally recommends reduction in logistics and transport Costs. This it says can be achieved through the rehabilitation of key federal and state transport corridors, the streamlining of checkpoints and elimination of informal levies on inter-state movement, and improvements in intermodal connectivity to reduce travel time and costs.
The CPPE also wants energy and productions cost address by implementing the transitional energy support schemes for productive sectors as well as promoting investments in renewable and off-grid power to enhance reliability, while enforcing efficiency in the electricity value chain to lower tariffs and improve supply.
CPPE also suggests and expanded access to affordable finance to deepen credit guarantees and concessional financing for SMEs and the real sector, and the strengthening of the development finance institutions’ role in channeling funds to productive enterprises.
The CPPE equally wants to see more reforms in port and trade logistics which it believes will simplify international trade processes and eliminate multiple agency checkpoints.
Alongside this, it recommends digitize clearance procedures to reduce time and costs as well as harmonization of port charges and enforcement of transparency in the port value chain.
Overall, the CPPE wants to see stable exchange rate which it believes can be achieved through credible market-based mechanisms.
It also wants to see coordination between fiscal and monetary authorities strengthened to prevent policy contradictions. Besides, it recommends that authorities guard against fiscal slippage that could re-ignite inflationary pressures.
In making these recommendations, the CPPE said the dropping inflation rate is a welcome development and a sign of improving macroeconomic fundamentals.
It however noted that the cost-of-living crisis remains acute, particularly for low- and middle-income households.
”The next phase of reform must therefore prioritize welfare-focused and cost-reduction measures that deliver tangible relief to citizens,” the CPPE said.
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