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Do you know your right as a consumer of products and services? Consumer Rights As a consumer, you have the following rights and you must insist on them. The right to Satisfaction of Basic Needs Access to basic goods and services necessary for survival, such as food, water, energy, clothung, shelter, health-care, education and sanitation. Goods and services must meet the standard of quality promised such that there is value for money in the purchase. The Right to Safety Protection from hazardous products, production processes and services. The Right to Information Provision of information enabling informed consumer choice as well as protection from misleading or inaccurate advertising and labeling. The Right to Choose Access to variety of quality products and services at competitive prices. The Right to Redress Compensation for misrepresentation, shoddy goods and unsatisfactory public and private services, including the right to adequate legal represe...

Qatar has become the latest country to back Saudi Arabia in its dispute with Iran, recalling its ambassador to Tehran on Wednesday in response to the attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions last weekend. Jordan, Djibouti, and Turkey also expressed pro-Saudi positions on Wednesday after the embassy attacks in Iran that followed the execution of a renowned Shia leader in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the execution of 47 men for terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia was “a domestic issue”. One of those put to death was Shia Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr – a move that stirred sectarian anger across the region. “Forty-six of those who were executed are Sunni and they are executed because they are affiliated with al-Qaeda. One of them was a Shia religious leader. This decision was previously taken and Saudi Arabia implemented it. This is their decision,” Erdogan said in a speech in the capital Ankara. The president also said those who remained silent about the deaths of ...

Driverless cars are supposed to be a sign of a tranquil future, where pleasant machines cart relaxed guests around, handling all the messiness of automobile travel. They’ve also long been the interest of the military, which through DARPA in 2003 challenged inventors to make a machine that, by itself, could navigate a 300-mile stretch between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.The goal was a technological solution to a messy problem from the insurgencies fought in Iraq and Afghanistan: convoys carrying supplies were frequently attacked, with lives often lost in the process. If resupply could be driverless, it would save lives. Now, it appears, ISIS has created a driverless car with the exact opposite objective: remotely controlled, a driverless car bomb could be just as deadly as a suicidal one, and without the high cost of a fighter in the driver seat, too. As reported by Sky News, ISIS has posted an instructional video on how to turn a car into a remote-controlled weapon. It includes remote ...

MTN has sealed the deal to acquire Visafone, the leading CDMA operator in Nigeria.  The acquisition is expected to provide MTN the robust voice and data platform of Visafone to cater for the booming internet population in Nigeria. A source who confirmed the transaction said: “It’s certainly a multimillion naira deal because Visafone was the largest CDMA operator in the country”. “The acquisition is expected to ensure high quality data services and improve mobile broadband experience for subscribers of Visafone and MTN”. “The merger is also expected to provide the much-needed relief to the booming internet economy by making available quality mobile broadband services adopting the state of the art 4G LTE technologies during the year.” Nigeria ranks among the fastest growing countries in terms of mobile subscribers and data penetration. The number of subscribers that surf the internet in June was put at 92,816,572 but increased to 93,551,811 in the month of July. The data sho...

Jude Nkama, Ebonyi state born Nigerian, was today sworn-in as Judge of Newark Municipal Court in New Jersey, USA. Nkama who contested to run for Governorship under the Progressive Peoples Alliance in the 2011 General Elections which he lost to Martins Elechi of the Peoples Democratic Party becomes the 1st African in the 349 year history of the city. Jude Nkama worked as the Corporation Counsel for the City of Newark in New Jersey and advised the Mayor and other top level administration.  He also served as the Municipal prosecutor. He was appointed as the Associate Defense Counsel at the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone. According to his personal statement, Mr. Nkama says “I am passionate about working in Africa, especially in Nigeria to use my experience in the Western World to improve upon the situation of Africa, our homeland. I want to commit and devote my skills, education and experience to give back to Africa.”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday night arrested a former military governor of Kaduna State and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Lawal Jafaru Isa. Mr. Isa is the first chieftain of the APC arrested by the EFCC since the beginning of a sweeping probe into the alleged diversion of $2.1 billion meant for arms purchase by officials of the immediate-past administration. Mr. Isa, Military Administrator of Kaduna State from December 1993 to August 1996 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha and one-time governorship candidate of the defunct CPC in Kano State, is a close friend of the embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. Mr. Isa, also a close political associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, was arrested at his Abuja residence located at Ajayi Crowther Street, Asokoro. An eye witness account said that operatives of the anti-graft commission invaded his residence around 9pm, and then whisked him away a few minutes...

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore issued an order Wednesday informing the state’s probate judges of their “ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary” to Alabama’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision overturning such state bans, Moore maintains Alabama’s law is still valid, and that as chief justice he is empowered to “take affirmative and appropriate action to correct or alleviate any condition or situation adversely affecting the administration of justice within the state.”