Transparency International rates Nigeria low in corruption perception

The latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI) rates Nigeria low.

While Nigeria scored 27/100 and was ranked 136th in 2016, the latest CPI scores Nigeria 27 with a rank of 148 out of 180 countries surveyed, 12 places below where it was the previous year.

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The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption in the opinion of experts and business people, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean, according to TI.

This development will worry the Buhari administration which touts effective anti-corruption crusade as one of its major achievements.

 

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