NNPC, 12 others fail ICPC integrity check

The Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted and 12 different ministries, departments, and companies of the Federal Authorities recorded zero within the Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard of the Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee.

In keeping with a publication by the ICPC on Wednesday, of the 357 MDAs screened, the NNPC ranks final, scoring zero throughout all 4 key pillar indicators.

Nonetheless, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Fee was the highest-rated company, scoring 91.83. The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Fee was 278 on the record with a rating of 38.25.

In keeping with the ICPC, the Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard was conceived as a diagnostic and accountability device to strengthen transparency, moral conduct, and institutional resilience inside Nigeria’s public sector.

The scorecard, it mentioned, has developed into a significant benchmark for measuring compliance throughout 4 key pillar indicators of Administration Tradition and Construction, Monetary Administration Techniques, Administrative Techniques, and the Anti-corruption and Transparency Unit, which collectively seize the vital dimensions of ethics and governance throughout the public service.

For the 2025 evaluation 12 months, it was mentioned that the EICS was deployed throughout 360 goal MDAs of the Federal Authorities. Out of this quantity, three MDAs have been exempted from the train, leaving a complete of 357 MDAs successfully assessed.

Earlier, whereas presenting the scorecard on Tuesday, the ICPC Chairman, Dr Aliyu Musa, who was represented by the Director of the Techniques Research and Evaluation Division, Mr Olusegun Adigun, mentioned the evaluation uncovered widespread weaknesses in moral requirements and institutional integrity throughout authorities companies.

In keeping with him, of the MDAs assessed, solely 48 (13.95 per cent) recorded substantial compliance, 132 MDAs (38.37 per cent) achieved partial compliance, whereas 141 MDAs (40.99 per cent) confirmed poor compliance. 23 MDAs (6.69 per cent) have been labeled as non-compliant.

“No MDA achieved full compliance,” Adigun mentioned, including that 13 MDAs out of the 357 deployed for evaluation have been non-responsive and consequently labeled as high-risk establishments.

The Wednesday advertorial confirmed that the NNPC tops the record of these 13 MDAs labeled as high-risk.

Others are the Institute of Archaeology and Museum Research, Jos; the Federal Civil Service Fee, Abuja; the Nationwide Centre for the Management of Small Arms and Gentle Weapons, Abuja; the Federal Medical Centre, Hong, Adamawa State; the College of Calabar; the Cross River Basin Growth Authority, Calabar; and the Federal Faculty of Schooling, Obudu, Cross River.

It additional listed the Federal Faculty of Medical Laboratory Science and Expertise, Benue; the Nationwide Metallurgical Growth Centre, Jos, Plateau State; the Nationwide Root Crops Analysis Institute, Umudike, Abia State; the Decrease Niger River Basin Growth Authority, Ilorin, Kwara State; and the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State.

The highest-compliant MDAs are NUPRC, the Nigeria Deposit Insurance coverage Fee, the Asset Administration Company of Nigeria, the Bank of Industry, and others.

The ICPC acknowledged that it’s going to proceed administering EICS to MDAs. It additionally threatened to profile MDAs with constantly low scores of non-compliance.

“That is to make sure and encourage MDAs’ compliance with authorities statutes, insurance policies, and directives to advertise integrity, accountability, effectivity, and productiveness in authorities enterprise. Nonetheless, MDAs with constantly low scores of non-compliance and no responsive standing will likely be subjected to profiling by way of system research and acceptable enforcement actions,” the ICPC acknowledged.

The NNPC spokesman, Andy Odeh, couldn’t be reached as of the time of submitting this report. Odeh didn’t reply calls to his cellphone, nor did he reply to messages despatched to him.