{"id":61065,"date":"2025-02-11T15:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61065"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:53:15","slug":"nigeria-ranked-36th-in-2024-global-corruption-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/11\/nigeria-ranked-36th-in-2024-global-corruption-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Ranked 36th in 2024 Global Corruption Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Transparency International\u2019s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks Nigeria as the 36th most corrupt country, with a score of 26, alongside Uganda, Iraq, Mexico, Madagascar, and Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The CPI, which assesses corruption perceptions in 180 countries, scores them from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).<\/p>\n<p>Denmark leads with a score of 90, followed by Finland (88) and Singapore (84).<\/p>\n<p>Cape Verde is the least corrupt African nation, ranking 35th with a score of 62. South Sudan, Somalia, and Venezuela are the most corrupt, occupying the lowest positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu Transparency International\u2019s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks Nigeria as the 36th most corrupt country, with a score of 26, alongside Uganda, Iraq, Mexico, Madagascar, and Cameroon. The CPI, which assesses corruption perceptions in 180 countries, scores them from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). Denmark leads with a score of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61067,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61065\/revisions\/61067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}