Nigeria Now 32nd Most Corrupt, Says Transparency International

In spite of President Umaru Yar’Adua’s avowed commitment to fighting corruption and the spirited efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFCC) to curb official graft, Trans-parency International (TI), the global anti-graft watch, yesterday released its 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), ranking Nigeria 148 out of the 180 countries surveyed.