The National Bureau of Statistics made this known in its Consumer Price Index report released on Thursday.

Food, non-alchoholic beverages , housing, water , electricity, gas and other fuel, clothing footwear, transportation amongst others contributed to the inflationary rise.

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Food inflation rate at 2.19% was higher by 0.06% compared with April’s figure of 2.13%.

Core inflation was 1.81% in May up by 0.35% from April’s fofure of 1.4%.