The use of specialised anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) to combat corruption is increasingly popular among African countries. This is no surprise considering the successes these agencies have recorded elsewhere in the world, on the strength of which they have been described as ‘the most innovative feature of the anti-corruption movement of the last two decades’. Yet while ACAs have been successful in other parts of the world, the same cannot be said of those in Africa generally and Nigeria in particular. Even with two ACAs – the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – corruption continues to soar in the country, making it necessary to examine the flaws of Nigeria’s ACAs. Focusing on a number of key characteristics of ACAs, this article analyses the role of the ICPC and EFCC in combating corruption in Nigeria. The main question the article seeks to answer is why corruption should be on the increase despite the fact that two specialised ACAs have been in existence for close to two decades.

使用专门的反腐败机构（的ACA打击腐败S）是非洲国家中越来越受欢迎。考虑到这些机构在世界其他地方所取得的成功，这不足为奇，因为它们的实力被描述为“过去二十年来反腐败运动中最具创新性的特征”。然而，尽管ACA在世界其他地区取得了成功，但对于整个非洲地区（尤其是尼日利亚）而言，却并非如此。即使有两个ACA-独立腐败行为及其他相关犯罪委员会（ICPC）和经济与金融犯罪委员会（EFCC））–腐败在该国继续飙升，因此有必要检查尼日利亚ACA的缺陷。着眼于ACA的许多关键特征，本文分析了ICPC和EFCC在打击尼日利亚腐败中的作用。本文试图回答的主要问题是，尽管存在两个专门的ACA已有近二十年的事实，但为什么腐败仍在增加。