{"id":60089,"date":"2025-01-28T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60089"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:17:35","slug":"nafdac-shuts-250-illegal-factories-in-aba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/28\/nafdac-shuts-250-illegal-factories-in-aba\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC Shuts 250 Illegal Factories in Aba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has closed Aba&#8217;s notorious Cemetery Market for the second time in two years, seizing counterfeit beverages and food items worth over \u20a65 billion during its &#8220;Operation Clean Up Aba.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over 240 illegal factories producing fake versions of brands like Hennessy, Coca-Cola, and Hollandia Yoghurt under hazardous conditions were shut down.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, called the operation a decisive step in combating counterfeit goods and protecting public health.<\/p>\n<p>The agency commended Abia State&#8217;s government for its support and urged Nigerians to report suspicious products to curb the spread of counterfeits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has closed Aba&#8217;s notorious Cemetery Market for the second time in two years, seizing counterfeit beverages and food items worth over \u20a65 billion during its &#8220;Operation Clean Up Aba.&#8221; Over 240 illegal factories producing fake versions of brands like Hennessy, Coca-Cola, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":60090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60089","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=60089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60091,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60089\/revisions\/60091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}