Across Nigeria’s bustling market squares and busy highway filling stations, from the crowded aisles of neighbourhood supermarkets to the quiet precision of industrial weighbridges, the Federal Government is drawing a line in the sand. The message is simple but profound: no buyer should be cheated, and no seller should be cheated. In a renewed push to protect the integrity of everyday commerce, the government has reiterated its plans to roll out a nationwide market surveillance drive against short measurement, a practice that robs ordinary people, undermines honest businesses, and poisons trust in the marketplace. Dr Salim Mohammed, Director of the…

In an age where information travels at the speed of a click, the battle against misinformation has become one of the defining challenges of our time. Social media platforms, once celebrated for connecting humanity, now find themselves under intense scrutiny for their role in spreading falsehoods, especially during elections. Out of this crisis emerged a seemingly elegant solution: crowdsourced fact-checking. The idea was simple and appealing—instead of relying on a small team of professional fact-checkers, let the users themselves flag misleading content and add context. Elon Musk’s X platform, formerly known as Twitter, embraced this concept with its “Community Notes”…