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Sasaki made this statement on Tuesday while stressing on the way to conquer corruption. Nigeria will not achieve any progress in the He said that fight against corruption if law enforcement authorities continue to act outside the law. He continued by saying “If we are truly serious about building a Nigeria that is free from corruption and its myriad consequences, then we must fight to build a nation of institutions under law,” Mr. Saraki said. “Anti-corruption does not start or end with the ICPC, or the EFCC, the Police or the SSS. This fight is all-encompassing.”

– Nigeria is 136th least corrupt country  – The US, UK recorded highest ranking ever – Somalia is the most corrupt country in the world Nigeria has been ranked as 136 on the list of world’s least corrupt countries in the year 2015. According to Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index, Nigeria’s rating is a far cry from the top ten in the world as is being speculated in some quarters. President Muhammadu Buhari and some world leaders during a recent function. Denmark, the rating revealed, tops the perceptions index for the second consecutive year but more countries are improving than worsening even as the United States and United Kingdom reached their highest rankings ever. The list released on Wednesday, January, 2016, showed that Denmark scored 91 points out of a possible 100 while North Korea and Somalia remained at the bottom with unchanged scores of 8. Nigeria’s rating is expected to be on the rise following the recent corruption bedeviling the $2.1 billi...