The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said residents of Zamfara State paid the highest bus fare of N305.00 within city in April, 2019.
Residents of the state also paid highest bus journey of N308. 57 in March.
The NBS said this in its Transport Fare Watch for April 2019 report published on its website.
The bureau said the residents of Cross River were the second highest with N284.00 followed by Abuja that paid N280.00 per bus fare in the month under review.
The report said the states with lowest bus journey fare within city were Sokoto (N132.00), Abia (N130.70) and Bauchi (N95.00).
The transport fare watch covered the following categories: bus journey within the city per drop on regular routes; intercity bus journeys and state routes as well as charge per person.
It also covered airfare charge for specified routes per journey; journey by motorcycle (Okada) per drop and waterway passenger transport.
According to the report, average fare paid by commuters for bus journey within the city decreased by 0.07 per cent month-on-month and increased by 9.22 per cent year-on-year to N181.24 in April from N181.36 in March.
Also, the report said average fare paid by commuters for bus journey intercity increased by 0.77 per cent month-on-month and decreased by -6.88 per cent year-on-year to N1,604.36 in April from N1,592.07 in March.
It, however, said states with highest bus fare intercity were Abuja (N4,050), Borno (N2,550) and Adamawa (N2,400) while States with lowest intercity bus fare were Bayelsa (N1,000.50), Bauchi (N985.00) and Enugu (N945.00).
