{"id":64996,"date":"2025-04-28T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64996"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:22:18","slug":"tribunal-fines-nbc-n190m-for-misleading-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/28\/tribunal-fines-nbc-n190m-for-misleading-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal fines NBC N190m for Misleading Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal in Abuja has upheld a \u20a6190 million fine against the Nigerian Bottling Company for misleading packaging of its Coke products.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering judgment on Monday, the Tribunal, led by Thomas Okosun, rejected a proposed settlement between NBC and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, declaring it illegal since judgment had already been reserved.<\/p>\n<p>NBC had sought to overturn the fine, arguing that the mislabeling of products such as the Original Taste Less Sugar variant and Limca Lime Lemon was accidental.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Tribunal dismissed the claim and criticized the Commission for attempting a last minute compromise.<\/p>\n<p>It insisted that regulatory bodies must be accountable to the public and not allow private agreements to weaken enforcement actions.<\/p>\n<p>NBC has been ordered to pay the \u20a6190 million penalty within 60 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal in Abuja has upheld a \u20a6190 million fine against the Nigerian Bottling Company for misleading packaging of its Coke products. Delivering judgment on Monday, the Tribunal, led by Thomas Okosun, rejected a proposed settlement between NBC and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, declaring it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64996","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64998,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64996\/revisions\/64998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}