Nigeria Has Been Ranked as 148th World's Least Corrupt Country

Worldwide hostile to defilement guard dog, Transparency International (TI), has again positioned Nigeria low in its 2017 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) discharged on Wednesday.

The most recent positioning has Nigeria in the 148th position out of 180. The nation, as per the CPI, scored 28 out 100, a figure lower than the normal in the Sub-Sharan area.

CPI score identifies with view of the level of debasement as experienced by agents and examiners and ranges between 100 (very spotless) and 0 (exceptionally degenerate).

Nigeria's most recent arrangement shows that the nation has not gained ground in its battle against join, regardless of cases by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency that it is making a progress. In the 2016 rankings, Nigeria scored 28. In 2015, it scored 26. The year prior to that, it scored 25. In 2014, the nation scored 27 and 25 out of 2013.

In 2012, the nation's score was 27 out of 100. As indicated by TI, more elevated amounts of debasement are regular in nations where there is media and common society suppression.

It clarified that lion's share of nations are moving too gradually in their hostile to debasement endeavors, saying that numerous nations have gained practically zero ground over the most recent six years.

"Considerably all the more disturbing, advance investigation of the file comes about shows that nations with the least assurances for press and non-legislative associations (NGOs) additionally have a tendency to have the most exceedingly bad rates of debasement," said TI in an announcement.

This most recent CPI, said TI,found that more than 66% of nations scored beneath 50, with a normal score of 43.

"In the course of the most recent six years, a few nations altogether enhanced their CPI score, including Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and the United Kingdom, while a few nations declined, including Syria, Yemen and Australia.

This year, New Zealand and Denmark rank most elevated with scores of 89 and 88 individually. Syria, South Sudan and Somalia rank most minimal with scores of 14, 12 and 9 individually.

Western Europe was positioned the best performing district with a normal score of 66. The most noticeably bad performing areas are Sub-Saharan Africa (normal score 32) and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (normal score 34).TI expressed that all writers executed since 2012 were murdered in degenerate nations.

"No extremist or correspondent ought to need to fear for their lives when revolting against debasement. Given current crackdowns on both common society and the media around the world, we have to accomplish more to secure the individuals who talk up," said Patricia Moreira, TI's Managing Director.

TI's examination, which utilized information from the Committee to Protect Journalists, demonstrated that in the course of the most recent six years, more than nine out of 10 columnists were murdered in nations that scored 45 or less on the CPI. This, said TI, suggests that no less than a writer is executed each week in a nation that is exceedingly degenerate. It included that a normal of one out of five columnists that kicked the bucket was covering an anecdote about

defilement and lion's share of the casualties never get equity.