Nigeria is down one place in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2021, which was issued on Tuesday (TI).
The index, which was released exclusively in Nigeria by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and signed by the Head of Transparency International-Nigeria and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Amnesty International-Nigeria Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani), shows that Nigeria scored 24 out of 100 in the 2021 CPI, down one point from the 2020 CPI.
Nigeria is ranked 154 out of 180 nations in this year’s national comparison, down five places from the 2020 CPI findings.
Nigeria’s second straight year of decline on the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, according to CISLAC’s Executive Director (CPI).
In the 2021 index, the country had a score of 24 out of 100, according to TI.
‘It is Nigeria’s second straight year of a downward spiral on the TI’s CPI ranking, with the country’s score dropping from 26 in 2019 to 25 in 2020, and further to 24 in the most recent 2021 assessment,’ he said.
The CPI is a metric developed by TI to assess the amount of corruption in various countries’ systems. A country’s maximum score is 100 points, while its lowest score is zero. The worst-performing countries have a score of zero, while the best-performing countries have a score of 100.
Nigeria remains the second most corrupt country in West Africa, ranking 149th out of 180 countries surveyed.
