Prof Nicholas Attamah To Deliver ESUT 56th Inaugural Lecture On Public Corruption
By Amaechi Agbo
Ebe Ano City – Prof Nicholas Attamah will deliver the 56th Inaugural Lecture of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT).
The lecture which promises to be devoid of pontification will be based on strict and clinical dissection of compelling variables in the decadent public sector economy of Nigeria.
A Professor of Public Sector Economics and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, ESUT, Prof Attamah will anchor his lecture on the theme “Navigating the Moral Maze: Wealth Creation and Ethical Conduct in a Corrupt Public Sector”
The Lecture will be delivered on Thursday, March 26, 2026 at the Dr Peter Ndunuii Mbah Multi-purpose Auditorium, ESUT Main Campus, Ebe Anọ City Enugu by 11am.
The lecture would be historic as the Dean becomes the first Professor in
the Department of Economics to deliver professorial lecture. Scholastic fireworks will be robustly unleashed.
The 56th Inaugural lecture is coming just a month after Prof Patrick Onuamah delivered the 55th edition on February 26, 2026.
Prof Nicholas Ezeudo Attamah, Professor of Public Sector Economics, a Consummate Scholar with subsisting mantle as the Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences And Humanities, is overly poised to blaze the trail as first Inaugural lecturer in academic annals of Department of Economics.
According to Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released by Transparency International, last month, Nigeria ranked 142nd out of 182 countries, scoring 26 out of 100. This indicates high levels of perceived public sector corruption, maintaining a similar score as 2024 despite a slight drop in ranking due to the increased number of countries surveyed.
The CPI, which measures perceived levels of public sector corruption on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), assigned Nigeria a score of 26 — unchanged from 2024. Despite the steady score, the country slipped two places from its previous 140th position, reflecting relative declines as other countries made progress.
Nigeria’s performance remains significantly below the global average score of 42, which itself fell slightly from 43, with more than two-thirds of countries scoring below 50. The ranking also places Nigeria behind 33 other African nations.
Within Africa, Seychelles led the continent with 68 points, followed by Cabo Verde (62), Botswana (58), and Rwanda (58). Other countries that ranked ahead of Nigeria include Mauritius, Namibia, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya, and Egypt.
The CPI, which measures perceived levels of public sector corruption on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), assigned Nigeria a score of 26 — unchanged from 2024. Despite the steady score, the country slipped two places from its previous 140th position, reflecting relative declines as other countries made progress.
Nigeria’s performance remains significantly below the global average score of 42, which itself fell slightly from 43, with more than two-thirds of countries scoring below 50. The ranking also places Nigeria behind 33 other African nations.
