11/84Price of a roasting rat in Nigeria: 65¢

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6/84Average number of days business and government take to pay a bill in Nigeria: 96

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    In Japan: 7

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    In the United States: 20

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6/95Number of publications banned for at least six months last year in Nigeria: 15

Committee to Protect Journalists (N.Y.C.)

6/96Percentage of all Shell oil spills between 1982 and 1992 that took place in Nigeria: 37

Cutter Information Corp. (Arlington, Mass.)

9/96Rank of Nigeria among countries where a government official is most likely to solicit a bribe from a business person: 1

Transparency International (Berlin)

2/98Rank of Nigeria among countries that have the highest rate of regular attendance at religious services: 1

Nigerian Embassy

3/99Percentage change in gasoline prices in Nigeria after government price caps were lifted last December: +127

Royal Dutch/Shell Group (Lagos, Nigeria)

8/02Number of northern Nigerian states in which being divorced and pregnant is enough evidence for an adultery conviction: 12

Amnesty International (London)

8/02Years that a Nigerian woman appealing a sentence of death by stoning in March will be allowed to live to wean her baby: 1.5

Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (Abuja, Nigeria)

2/07Percentage of Nigerians living on less than $1 per day in 1985 and today, respectively: 32, 71

The World Bank (Washington)/U.N. Development Programme (N.Y.C.)

2/07Total oil revenues that have flowed into Nigeria since 1974: $728,500,000,000

U.S. Energy Information Administration

2/07Amount that Britons paid to “Nigerian-style” email and letter scams last year: $661,500,000

Office of Fair Trading (London)