Below is a compilation of just a few indices in which Nigeria ranks proudly at the bottom 10 in the entire world:

#8 – General Corruption: Nigeria is 8th most corrupt nation in the world according to
Transparency International 2013 Global Corruption Barometer.

#4 – Police corruption: Nigeria ranked 4th
highest in the world for perceiving the police
as corrupt, according to the same Transparency survey.

#1 – Being born: The Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU ranked Nigeria the worst place to be born in 2013.

#4 – Population in Slavery: Nigeria with up to 740,000 in slave bondage ranks 4th in the
world in modern slave nations, according to the just released Global Slavery Index. Fitting in after Pakistan.

#1 –High Sea Piracy: As the world records
lower global stats, thanks to Nigeria, West Africa is now the world piracy capital. According to the International Maritime Bureau reported Nigeria had 11 of 66 global incidents for the first quarter of 2013. 966 sailors were attacked last year off West African coasts.

#9 – Maternal mortality: According to World Bank data, Nigeria ranks 9th worst in the
world with 630 deaths per 100,000 from 10 years data collected from 1990-2010.

#2 –Software Piracy: The 2011 Global
Software Piracy Study conducted by Business
Software Alliance ranked Nigeria 2nd in the
world, with software piracy costing the nation a whopping $251m (N39.4bn).

#1 – Exam Malpractice: Director General
National Orientation Agency (NOA) Mr. Mike
Omeri whose agency partners with Exam
Ethics Marshals International, in 2012 ranked
Nigeria #1 in the World Exam Malpractice Index.

#11 – Good Governance: Nigeria ranked 4th worst in West Africa, 13th of 16, in Safety &
Rule of Law, Participation & Human Rights,
Sustainable Economic Opportunity, and
Human Development, in the 2013 Ibrahim
Index of African Governance. Nigeria ranked
41st out of the 52 countries listed overall.

#1 – Bribe: Nigeria ranks highest for Bribe in the world on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
(FCPA) interactive map, online at-fcpamap.com

#1 – VVF: According to United States Agency for International Development, USAID,
Nigeria has the highest prevalence of Vesico-
Vaginal Fistula in the world, with over
200,000 patients and an annual incidence at
20,000. That is 40% of the global cases in
Nigeria alone.

#7 – Terrorism: Global Terrorism Index (GTI) ranks Nigeria the 7th worst in the world for
terrorism over the last 10 years, according to
its 2012 assessment.

#2 – Road Traffic Accidents (RTA): In 2012,
Nigeria ranked second highest in road traffic
accident (RTA) fatalities among the 193 countries in the world according to the Minister of Health.

#1 – Aviation Accident for 2012: In 2012 with over 153 onboard deaths and more on the ground, in the Dana Air Boeing MD83 airline accident, Nigeria had the world’s worst aviation accident.

#4 – Worst City: Despite aggressive
transformation by the Lagos government, the
EIU in its 2013 annual survey of 140 major
metropolises ranked Lagos the 4th worst city in the entire world.

#7 – Growing Old: Global AgeWatch Index
2013 ranking of 91 countries, put Nigeria at
#85; the seventh worst country to grow old
in. Nigeria in the report ranked third lowest
for income security.

#2 – HIV/AIDS: With an estimated 3.4 million living with the virus, the National Action
Committee on Aids (NACA) put the nation as
the 2nd worst in the world.

#2 – Electricity: Nigeria is ranked by the
World Bank as the 2nd worst in the world in
power (electricity) supply. According to the
report, 82.4 million Nigerians, half the nation
lived without power. India is #1.

#1 – Kidnapping: In the first half of 2013,
Nigeria had the most kidnapping attempts of
any nation in the world, according to NYA
International organization of Crises
prevention and response. Recording 26%,
over a quarter of all incidents. Mexico was
second with 10% and Pakistan 3rd with 7%.

#1 – Oil Spills Worldwide: From Vanguard on November 14, 2012: Nigeria has highest oil
spill in the world – Senate; the nation records
the highest number of oil spill incidences
among oil producing countries with no
penalty regime attached to such oil spills

#4 – Oil Spillage Outages: Vanguard reported on October 8th, 2013, that with more than 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil
being lost to pipeline vandalism, Nigeria rank 4th worst in the world in oil spillage outages, according to Deutsche Bank and other shipping and industry estimates. Libya, Syria, Iran and lead Nigeria in outages for obvious reasons including recent wars and US sanctions at Iran.

But there is a glimmer of hope in it all. Nigeria actually does take the first position in something great:

#1 – Highest Paid Legislators: The Economist
magazine revealed that Nigerian federal
legislators are the highest paid in the world
with an annual basic salary of $189,500
(N30.6 m).

With the current state and direction of both the government and the people of Nigeria - Africa’s largest nation and the world’s most populated black country—the nation is not headed for improvement on these shameful rankings, but more predictably to slide further down the ladder into the darkest crevices of the black hole of Calcutta.

The question is: To act or to give-up?And the follow-up question is: If we the people decide to do something, what should and can we do?

Nigeria is good

Lets talk positive

harlos: Nigeria is good

Lets talk positive

And what is so good abt it sir? Is there any year ASUU hasn't gone on strike? What good effect has fuel subsidy removal provided for the average man?
Why do we have graduates n undergraduates applying everytime to travel to the US, UK, even Malaysia etc?

Talking positive simply means 'act positive n expect to be spoken positively abt n vice versa'. And mind you these r not indices drafted out to talk negative........they r facts.

9ja good people,great nation. Still remain the best country to survive in the wold if you work hard towards your dream.I cannot afford to be a slave in a strange land.I will make in this country.this is the only country i am proud of and i can never give up my identity as a Nigerian.

xyuche: 9ja good people,great nation. Still remain the best country to survive in the wold if you work hard towards your dream.I cannot afford to be a slave in a strange land.I will make in this country.this is the only country i am proud of and i can never give up my identity as a Nigerian.

Same here man......but that still doesn't mean we shud keep quiet when we see tinz going wrong. Our fathers who helped gain independence dint keep quiet n that's why they were able help gain it. Why are we always scared of speaking out n acting when we need to?

At all at all na im baadt

Jbluv55:
And what is so good abt it sir? Is there any year ASUU hasn't gone on strike? What good effect has fuel subsidy removal provided for the average man?
Why do we have graduates n undergraduates applying everytime to travel to the US, UK, even Malaysia etc?

Talking positive simply means 'act positive n expect to be spoken positively abt n vice versa'. And mind you these r not indices drafted out to talk negative........they r facts.

That is y i used the mouth bending smiley
and the other with sad face

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