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Nigeria top statistician tweeted country's inflation data 1 hour early - and blamed a non-existent time difference between Nigeria and London

From businessinsider.com

The head of Nigeria's statistical authority made an embarrassing blunder Thursday when he accidentally tweeted the country's latest inflation figures an hour before their official release. Dr. Yemi Kale, the Statistician-General of Africa's biggest economy, tweeted the data at 8:03 a.m. Nigerian time (8:03 a.m. BST), 57 minutes before the data was meant to be published. "March 2017 inflation report published," Kale tweeted. "Headline inflation drops for 14th consecutive time to 13.34% in March 2018, year on year from 14.33% in February. Food inflation drops to 16.08% from 17.59% and Core inflation drops to 11.2% ... (full story)

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