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The top five ranked institutions include the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, the Development Bank of Nigeria, the Nigerian Export Processing Zones Authority, and the Bureau of Public Service Reforms.

Meanwhile, the least-ranked institutions are the Office of the National Security Adviser, the Federal Ministry of Police Affairs, the National Centre for Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, the Industrial Arbitration Panel, and the Librarians Registration Council of Nigeria.

The rankings were based on public institutions’ proactiveness, level of disclosure and level of responsiveness to FoI requests, seeking to unveil the compliance level of the institutions with the Freedom of Information Act 2011 to promote transparency in Nigeria.

According to the rankings, of the 245 institutions, only 1.22% were fully proactive, 6.94% were partially active, and the other 91.84% of the MDAs were non-proactive. On the level of exposure, only 9.39% of the MDAs fully disclosed the requested information, 5.71% partially disclosed the information requested, and 84.9% failed to disclose the requested information.

The rankings further showed that 20% of MDAs responded within seven days of an FOI request, 7.8% responded within 8-14 days, and 91.84% responded after 14 days or did not respond.

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