Nigeria has recorded her worst global rating on Corruption Perception Index since 2015.
This followed the release of the latest report of Transparency International on Corruption Perception Index.
In the 2020 index released on Thursday by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, the country’s chapter of TI, Nigeria scored 25 out of 100 points, dropping to 149 out of the 183 countries surveyed.
This tool the country three steps down from the 146th position it attained in 2019.
Transparency International said the reason behind Nigeria’s worst ranking stemmed from an absence of transparency, nepotism, lack of adequate anti-corruption legal frameworks, prevalence of bribery and extortion in the Nigerian Police and corruption in the security sector, among others.
The CPI aggregates data from eight different sources that provide perceptions by Nigeria’s business community and country experts on the level of corruption in the public sector.