1.2 million – The National Examination Council (NECO) said out of the 7,410,030 candidates that sat for the Senior School Certificate Examination between 2010 and 2016, a total of 1,283,485 committed examination malpractice.

$793.2 million – A Federal High Court in Lagos ordered seven commercial banks to remit a total of this amount allegedly kept illegally in their custody to the designated Federal Government’s Asset Recovery dollars account domiciled with the Central Bank of Nigeria.

14,118 – The number of Nigerians who have irregularly migrated to Italy in 2017 alone, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

N31 million – The parents of the six pupils abducted from Lagos State Model College, Igbonla revealed that they paid this amount as ransom to the kidnappers.

600 – The number of contracts and projects terminated by the Niger Delta Development Agency (NDDC) as part of efforts to restructure the commission.