Abstract: This study investigate the impact of petroleum pump price and interest rate on food prices in Nigeria using an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model covering the period 1984 -2018. The results showed that petroleum pump price and lending interest rate have positive and significant impact on food prices in both the long-run and the short-run whereas imports of goods and services appeared to be negative and significant in explaining changes in food prices in the long-run but is insignificant in the short-run. The exchange rate is insignificant in explaining changes in food prices in both the long-run and the short-run periods.