Imagine stopping at a filling station to buy fuel for the week, or picking up rice, beans, and vegetables from a busy market, only to discover later that the quantity you paid for was not what you actually received. For many Nigerian households, especially in a time of rising costs and economic strain, that kind of loss is not a small inconvenience—it is a real hit to the family budget. This is exactly the problem the Federal Government is now determined to tackle. According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Dr Salim Mohammed, Director of the…

1. The 2025 election year was never going to be simple, and a major new global review makes it clear that democracy’s hardest work happened exactly where citizens could feel it: at the ballot box, in the news feed, and in the quiet moments before a vote was cast. This was a year of high-stakes elections across dozens of countries, and the organizations watching them closely—International IDEA, working with the Electoral Integrity Project—did not just tally winners and losers. They looked at how the process itself held up under pressure. Their review, The 2025 Year of Elections: Inclusivity, Transparency and…