{"id":3621,"date":"2019-01-30T17:25:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2019-01-30T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:25:28","slug":"nigerias-corruption-record-has-improved-ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-corruption-record-has-improved-ti","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s corruption record has improved \u2013TI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content no-share\">\n<div class=\"content-inner \">\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">This was contained in IT\u2019s latest report released on Tuesday in Abuja by the Head of Transparency International Nigeria and Executive Director Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Nigeria is ranked 144 out of the 180 countries that were surveyed last year, it moved from upwards from the 148th most corrupt nation ranked in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Somalia, a country located at Sub-Saharan Africa was listed as the most corrupt country with the highest corruption report. It scored 10 over 100 and was raked 180 out of 180 countries analysed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Denmark, was ranked number one corruption free nation with its score of 88 over 100 because of its little or corruption report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">New Zealand came second while Finland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland came third. Norway and Netherlands came seventh and eighth as Canada and Luxembourg came ninth, according to the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Nigeria scored 27\/100 same as Kenya, Mauritania, Guatemala, and Comoros. In 2016, the country scored 27\/100 and was ranked 136th but dropped to 148\/180 in 2017 despite a higher score of 28\/100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The 2018 CPI draws on 13 surveys and expert assessments to measure public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories, giving each a score from zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">More than two-thirds of countries score below 50 on this year\u2019s CPI, with an average score of just 43.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">TI Managing Director, Patricia Moreira, said the latest CPI\u2019s report revealed that the continued failure of most countries to significantly control corruption contributed to a crisis of democracy around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"tbmarker\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_share_bottom_container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was contained in IT\u2019s latest report released on Tuesday in Abuja by the Head of Transparency International Nigeria and Executive Director Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani. Nigeria is ranked 144 out of the 180 countries that were surveyed last year, it moved from upwards from the 148th most corrupt nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":3624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[41,106,314],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-corruption","tag-economy","tag-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria\u2019s corruption record has improved \u2013TI - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-corruption-record-has-improved-ti\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s corruption record has improved \u2013TI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This was contained in IT\u2019s latest report released on Tuesday in Abuja by the Head of Transparency International Nigeria and Executive Director Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani. 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