Nigeria has moved up four places in the Transparency International corruption perception index (CPI) for 2018.
The latest development was revealed in a report unveiled on Tuesday morning by the anti-corruption campaigner.
In the report, Nigeria is ranked 144 out of the 180 countries that were surveyed in 2018 — an upward movement of four places compared to 148 out of 180 in 2017.
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Transparency International Chapter in Nigeria, said in the statement that “Nigeria scored 27 out of 100 points in the 2018 CPI, maintaining the same score as in the 2017 CPI.”
President Muhammadu Buhari was elected into office in 2015 on the promise of war against corruption.
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.
The upward movement means that Nigeria is now perceived to be the 32nd most corrupt country in the world in 2018 — instead of 36th in 2017.
Seychelles is the least-perceived to be corrupt in Africa, followed by Botswana and Cape Verde.
Somalia, for the seventh year in a row, remained the country perceived as the most corrupt, followed by South Sudan.
