In the 2021 ranking released on Tuesday by the agency, Nigeria dropped five places.
The country scored twenty four out of one hundred points ranking one hundred fifty four out of one hundred and eight countries.
This is Nigeria’s second consecutive year of a downward spiral on the TI’s CPI ranking.
The country’s score dropped from 26 in 2019 to 25 in the 2020 assessment, and further to 24 in the latest 2021 record.
Country Representative of TI, Auwal Rafsanjani blamed the decline on corruption in the public sector.
