Nigeria has partnered with a public spending watchdog to improve government accountability and transparency. The NGO BudgIT tracks budgets and proposed spending across governments and departments, highlighting anomalies in easily disseminated graphics and asking citizens to track big projects by uploading pictures of their progress. Nigeria is ranked 136th out of 176 countries on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index.

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