Nigeria on Tuesday recorded a heartwarming improvement in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for year 2023, as it moved five places up to the 145 position from its previous 150 position out of 180 countries assessed.
According to the latest corruption index released by Transparency International (TI), the country also gained one point to its previous 24, to marginally score 25 points out of the maximum 100 points in the 2023 CPI results.
The CPI measures how corrupt each country’s public sector is perceived globally on a scale of zero to 100, where zero means “highly corrupt” and 100 means very clean”.
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center (CISLAC) which presented the index in Abuja, pointed out however that Nigeria’s score is still below the 33 points that is the average for sub-saharan Africa.
CISLAC emphasised that this year’s CPI release is not an assessment of Nigeria’s anti-corruption agencies which it says are making commendable efforts in the fight against corruption in the country.
