2007 Assessment

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.

Following a violent and contested April 2007 election, Nigeria's performance in governance and anti-corruption has dropped significantly from a 2006 assessment. Government accountability (executive, legislative, judicial) and the civil service are rated as very weak. Although media is generally able to report freely, journalists in Nigeria are poorly paid and at times do not abide by a professional code of conduct. A citizen's access to information is not effective in practice. Unlike many nations struggling to improve governance, the gap between legal code and practical implementation is not huge — instead, Nigeria's legal framework rates considerably worse than others in the region, suggesting legislative reforms are an opportunity for considerable improvement.