{"id":59084,"date":"2025-01-07T08:22:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59084"},"modified":"2025-01-07T08:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:22:32","slug":"nafdac-seals-chinese-supermarket-in-abuja-over-regulatory-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/07\/nafdac-seals-chinese-supermarket-in-abuja-over-regulatory-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC Seals Chinese Supermarket in Abuja Over Regulatory Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Emmanuel Ogbodo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has sealed a Chinese supermarket in Abuja for allegedly selling goods labeled exclusively in Chinese, violating Nigerian regulations.<br \/>\nThe supermarket, located at Azba Mall, Wuse 2, was shut down on Monday following a tip-off.<br \/>\nNAFDAC\u2019s Director of Investigation and Enforcement, Shaba Mohammed, stated that over 90% of the items lacked English translations, contrary to regulatory requirements.<br \/>\nHe also noted that some expired products were still on display.<br \/>\n\u201cThe supermarket was sealed for violating NAFDAC regulations.<br \/>\n&#8220;We will investigate how these goods entered the country without proper labeling,\u201d Mohammed said.<br \/>\nHe emphasized that all products sold in Nigeria must have English labels to ensure consumer awareness.<br \/>\nThe supermarket could face administrative sanctions if found culpable, with penalties imposed accordingly.<br \/>\nMohammed also raised concerns about possible regulatory breaches in the importation process, stressing that NAFDAC would not have approved items labeled entirely in a foreign language.<br \/>\nNAFDAC urged Nigerians to remain vigilant and report any stores selling improperly labeled or expired products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Ogbodo The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has sealed a Chinese supermarket in Abuja for allegedly selling goods labeled exclusively in Chinese, violating Nigerian regulations. The supermarket, located at Azba Mall, Wuse 2, was shut down on Monday following a tip-off. NAFDAC\u2019s Director of Investigation and Enforcement, Shaba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":59085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[1695,187],"class_list":["post-59084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-azba-mall","tag-nafdac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59086,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59084\/revisions\/59086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}