The perception of Nigeria’s government seems to have crashed further, with most Nigerians rating their country’s leadership as the second most corrupt in the world, a Gallup poll just made public has revealed.
Gallup, in its first-ever report on “Global States of Mind: New Metrics for World Leaders.”, said 94 percent of Nigerians believe there is widespread corruption in government.
The poll shows that in the world, only Kenyans believe their government is more corrupt. About 96 percent of Kenyans said there is widespread corruption in their government while only five percent of Singaporeans said their government is corrupt.
Singaporeans believe their country is the least corrupt in the world. Gallup said last year’s revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt where GDP was rising, shows that world leaders need more than just GDP and other traditional economic metrics to run their countries. “Economic data are becoming less and less valuable because they tend to be outdated by the time they are made available. More significantly, GDP is less valuable because leaders now need to know much more than what people are spending — they need to know what they are thinking; GDP isn’t enough if you are watching for instability,” said Jim Clifton, Gallup Chairman and CEO.
“All institutes worldwide knew GDP was rising in Tunisia and Egypt. They knew what 11 million Tunisians and 80 million Egyptians were buying and selling — but they didn’t know what they were thinking,” Clifton added.
Clifton said GDP isn’t enough if leaders are trying to figure out levels of hunger, hopelessness, or suffering, adding that the United Nations did not see those revolutions coming, neither did the World Economic Forum (WEF), nor the World Bank.
“The U.S. spends tens of billions on intelligence— and it missed those revolutions too,” Clifton said. Gallup’s World Poll spans more than 150 countries, territories, and areas, annually capturing what more than 98% of the world’s adult population is thinking on topics from basic needs to job creation. Gallup’s World Poll data set now includes more than 1 million interviews conducted since the research initiative started in 2005. Respondents were asked questions on law and order, food and shelter, institutions and infrastructure, good jobs, wellbeing, brain drain and quality GDP growth.

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@ least na person carry first.

No suprises,we will only be decieving ourselves to believe the poll was wrong.

Our president only sets up panels to investigate corruption but he has done absolutely nothing to fight corruption,infact he is the number one citizen so he is the first corrupt official,he and his cabinet members are epitome of corruption

Gallup is very credible a source.
corruption by numbers
GEJ 30%
Diezanni Madueke 25%
politicians/oil marketers 25%
Masses 20%

k2039: No suprises,we will only be decieving ourselves to believe the poll was wrong.

Our president only sets up panels to investigate corruption but he has done absolutely nothing to fight corruption,infact he is the number one citizen so he is the first corrupt official,he and his cabinet members are epitome of corruption

The President once claimed that Nigeria is winning the war against corruption.

supereagle:
The President once claimed that Nigeria is winning the war against corruption.

He is always claiming, he also once claimed boko haram will end by june.

Nigeria should be first. The scale of corruption in this country is second to non anywhere in the world.

How does this help reduce the rate of corruption?

the poll is wrong! we should be first

Hmmm Naija no dey carry last for anything ooo

Old news

candieangel12: Hmmm Naija no dey carry last for anything ooo

Except Olympics!!

rusher14:
Except Olympics!!

LMAO

In soul-E's voice "e be like say them want tell us wetin we never hear before"...

as dem govt dey dabaru our country dey go na so ma people go dey follo dem dey go. Not wit dis kind of leaders, Nigeria no get hope..

k2039: No suprises,we will only be decieving ourselves to believe the poll was wrong.

Our president only sets up panels to investigate corruption but he has done absolutely nothing to fight corruption,infact he is the number one citizen so he is the first corrupt official,he and his cabinet members are epitome of corruption

Thank you,uve already said my mind

this is the kind of news we celebrate in this country. this is the kind of news that find there way to front page within seconds. we accept this kind of report without questioning its basis and the credibility of the rating agency. however, if this was a positive report about the country, we will discard it, question it and critically scrutinize it. well done to all of us. we can feed our pessimism by project the worse about our country, may be if we try quite hard we may actually succeed in destroying it then we will rest. the truth is no country is perfect. the countries we envy and compare ourselves with didn't get to where they did folding their hands and blaming the govt for envy thing. we cheat ourselves, hike price at the slightest excuse, hoard product, fail in our own responsibility to the country and then, stand aloof and bad mouth the country.peddling and circulating negative reports about our country will do none of us any good. lets roll our sleeves and play our part. am just tired of talk talk and talk and nobody really doing anything to change the status quo. do something positive , then you can come here and criticize those who haven't done their part, otherwise...just shut u p.

atoh...if pikin get clothes more dan an elder,he or she cant get rags more dan an elder

Second?

shit happens sha..even at home among parents and children there exsist corruption,talkless of schls,organizations,religion sects,govt.

We have been cheated again. I see nepotism at work here(Obama must have seen to it that Kenya gets ahead of us). We are no second fiddler in this area. First! First!! and First!!! This is so unfair.

silica: this is the kind of news we celebrate in this country. this is the kind of news that find there way to front page within seconds. we accept this kind of report without questioning its basis and the credibility of the rating agency. however, if this was a positive report about the country, we will discard it, question it and critically scrutinize it. well done to all of us. we can feed our pessimism by project the worse about our country, may be if we try quite hard we may actually succeed in destroying it then we will rest. the truth is no country is perfect. the countries we envy and compare ourselves with didn't get to where they did folding their hands and blaming the govt for envy thing. we cheat ourselves, hike price at the slightest excuse, hoard product, fail in our own responsibility to the country and then, stand aloof and bad mouth the country.peddling and circulating negative reports about our country will do none of us any good. lets roll our sleeves and play our part. am just tired of talk talk and talk and nobody really doing anything to change the status quo. do something positive , then you can come here and criticize those who haven't done their part, otherwise...just shut u p.

you must be retar.d.ed.

and the hits keep comimg

We've been cheated again, with all dis billions swinging here and there and they say we are second. Its unacceptable we should be the first.but wait o which country come collect Nigeria rite in first position. Abeg make una tell me so that I go know sey na devil dey rule the country.

Reserve my damn fucking comment...but i no say Naija go better..roger that

Do we really need any polls to tel us who we are? Infact GALLUP is wrong we are number 1. Abi na fo everytin we go dey carry last? I dey vex walahi.

Is dia any country mor corupt dn Nigeria? Nawa o,notn we dy carry 1st. Olympic notn, world cup notn, abeg mk dm try gv us d 1st most corupt country d whole world na. Mk we knw say na dat 1 we carry 1st. Bastards ;( ;(

Sh*t! How we lose to kenya for our game.

silica: this is the kind of news we celebrate in this country. this is the kind of news that find there way to front page within seconds. we accept this kind of report without questioning its basis and the credibility of the rating agency. however, if this was a positive report about the country, we will discard it, question it and critically scrutinize it. well done to all of us. we can feed our pessimism by project the worse about our country, may be if we try quite hard we may actually succeed in destroying it then we will rest. the truth is no country is perfect. the countries we envy and compare ourselves with didn't get to where they did folding their hands and blaming the govt for envy thing. we cheat ourselves, hike price at the slightest excuse, hoard product, fail in our own responsibility to the country and then, stand aloof and bad mouth the country.peddling and circulating negative reports about our country will do none of us any good. lets roll our sleeves and play our part. am just tired of talk talk and talk and nobody really doing anything to change the status quo. do something positive , then you can come here and criticize those who haven't done their part, otherwise...just shut u p.

I wish I can see you face to face and squeeze that your dull brain out of your head. With all dis corruption , embezzlement, everybody owning private jet. Billions of dollars missing everyday, legislators collecting bribe even when caught they still clame they never did. Chief judges collecting bribe to make a criminal win a case. LG collecting billions and clame they built 10 bore holes with it. Police throwing accuses at people ,killing innocent people everyday, their superiors don't care. The FG are not asking questions. Cos they are busy looking for their own pocket to send their kids to Harvard, Princeton,Manchester, oxford university. And you have the guts and balls to say you will question and scrutinize the survey company. You are lucky dis an online forum,your head would have roll.

FreeGlobe: Gallup is very credible a source.
corruption by numbers
GEJ 30%
Diezanni Madueke 25%
politicians/oil marketers 25%
Masses 20%

One thing is that GEJ,Diezani,Politicians,etc are all from here Nigeria. They're not from Jupiter.

We are all very corrupt. From the Chairman - Securityman, From President - a grade level 1 worker in a local government area. Its sad that we're not doing anything to change our mentality as a people. And there's no hope (except God intervenes) because the future leaders seem to be worse and a classical example are the SUG excos in our schools they're all corrupt.

I have my reservations about this poll, we should be the FIRST

Mr GEJ will soon come & list it as his administration's achievement...dropping from 1st to 2nd! Mtcheew!