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The Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.

This followed the release of the latest report of Transparency International on Corruption Perception Index.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo recovered $2 billion from the fund looted by late Head of State, General Sani Abacha.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the government’s position on Wednesday in London when he featured in interview sessions with some international media organisations.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Com mission said the Transparency International report on Nigeria was unfair and untenable.

The party said this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Thursday

The report was released on Thursday

Nigeria has again retained its ranking as number 144 of the 180 countries rated for corruption by Transparency International.

The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has said one of the challenges confronting Nigeria remains transparent leadership.

Abubakar said this on Monday in reaction to a statement by the Buhari Campaign Organisation that he was corrupt

While Obono-Obla was accused of forgery of his West African Examination Council certificate by a House of Representatives Panel, Adeosun was said to have forged her National Youth Service Corps discharge certificate

Lawal was sacked by the Muhammadu Buhari Administration for the alleged inflation of Internal Displaced Persons contracts and receiving kickbacks of N450 million

Rubio visited Oladele in his office in the National Assembly

”Nigeria has never had a more transparent, more accountable government than the Buhari Administration,” the Minister said when he received a TI delegation, led by the Chair of the body’s International Board, Delia Ferreira Rubio, in Abuja on Friday.

The governor said: “With the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, saying that corruption has become more endemic in Nigeria than it was in the last 16 years, with the country moving 12 places below its rating, a honourable government would have stopped using fight against corruption as its major achievement and releasing names of people that are still under trial as looters just to cover up its failure.”

Melaye in separate petitions to the United Nations (UN) Resident Representative, members of the diplomatic corps including the Ambassadors of the United States, Germany, Canada and the High Commissioner of the United Kingdom and the Amnesty International, Transparency International and the Human Rights Watch, however called on the intervention of the Inspector General of Police, members of the international Community and human rights bodies to save him from what he described as “willful, intentional harassment, oppression, political victimization and threat to life.” 

According to Transparency International’s report, the perception of corruption has worsened under President Muhammadu Buhari.

In a statement by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, the government questioned the method used by TI to arrive at what it called TI’s “very misleading and unfair conclusions in its assessment of the Federal government’s efforts in this anti-corruption crusade”

More than two-thirds of countries received a poor corruption score in study released on Wednesday, leaving most of the world’s population living in a country characterised as corrupt

Ezekwesili, who is the co-founder of Transparency International, will speak on: “African Leadership in a Turbulent Era”