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 8 most corrupt nation in the world according to
Transparency International 2013 Global Corruption Barometer.
#4 – Police corruption : Nigeria ranked 4 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 4 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 9 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 2 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 4 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 7 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 4 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 second worst in the world.
#2 – Electricity : Nigeria is ranked by the World Bank as the 2 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 3 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 8 , 2013, that with more than
200,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil being lost to pipeline vandalism, Nigeria ranks 4
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?

CONGRATS TO NIGERIA, THE FAKE COUNTRY THAT PARADES AND CELEBRATES FAKE UNITY. I don't think this is surprising in the least.
Until a true leader arises to show us the way out of our present predicament, it will only get worse.