ABSTRACT
The issue of corruption in Nigeria has emanated from historical, economic, political, geographical, cultural and social factors. In all of these, corruption remains a controversial issue in all typologies of government and administration since her amalgamation in 1914. Several approach had been adopted in time past by different administration to fight and minimize corruption both in the public and private sectors. However, Nigeria has, regrettably and consistently, remained on the negative corruption perception index, regionally and internationally. Nevertheless, the paper found that the present administration under president Buhari has adopted and/or introduced home grown laudable anti-corruption policies and legal frameworks. These include Treasury Single Account, Whistle-blowing, Code of conduct Bureau and its Tribunal, and Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and Governance Code among others, to fight against corruption. This effort has brought about modicum of victories in certain aspects of the corruption perception index. Also, the paper perused the perceptions of Nigerians based on write-ups and commentaries about some corruption casualties and found that opinions of Nigerians are tendentiously divided between and among ethnics, religious and political party lines. Therefore, the paper recommends among other things, that President Buhari where the bulk stop at his table and his cabinet, should make the rule of law and fighting against corruption. also, all policies formulation and enforcement in the direction of fight against corruption should be non-selective, non-ethnic and/or political party affinities or persuasion.
