The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and 12 other Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) of the Nigerian Government recorded zero in the Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
The ICPC said in publication on Wednesday that of the 357 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) screened, the NNPCL ranked last, scoring zero across all four key pillar indicators.
However, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission was the highest-rated agency, scoring 91.83. The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission was 278 on the list with a score of 38.25.
According to the ICPC, the Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard was conceived as a diagnostic and accountability tool to strengthen transparency, ethical conduct, and institutional resilience within Nigeria’s public sector.
The scorecard, it noted, has evolved into a vital benchmark for measuring compliance across four key pillar indicators of Management Culture and Structure, Financial Management Systems, Administrative Systems, and the Anti-corruption and Transparency Unit, which collectively capture the critical dimensions of ethics and governance within the public service.
For the 2025 assessment year, it was said that the EICS was deployed across 360 target MDAs of the Federal Government of Nigeria. Out of this number, three MDAs were exempted from the exercise, leaving a total of 357 MDAs effectively assessed.
Presenting the scorecard on Tuesday, the ICPC Chairman, Dr Aliyu Musa, who was represented by the Director of the Systems Study and Review Department, Mr Olusegun Adigun, said that the assessment exposed widespread weaknesses in ethical standards and institutional integrity across government agencies.
He explained that of the MDAs assessed, only 48 (13.95 per cent) recorded substantial compliance, 132 MDAs (38.37 per cent) achieved partial compliance, while 141 MDAs (40.99 per cent) showed poor compliance. 23 MDAs (6.69 per cent) were classified as non-compliant.
“No MDA achieved full compliance,” he said, adding that 13 MDAs out of the 357 deployed for assessment were non-responsive and consequently classified as high-risk institutions.
The report added that the NNPC tops the list of those 13 MDAs classified as high-risk.
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