{"id":71830,"date":"2025-08-01T03:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71830"},"modified":"2025-08-01T03:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:48:20","slug":"raid-abuja-supermarkets-over-fake-products-leo-dasilva-urges-nafdac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/01\/raid-abuja-supermarkets-over-fake-products-leo-dasilva-urges-nafdac\/","title":{"rendered":"Raid Abuja Supermarkets Over Fake Products, Leo DaSilva Urges NAFDAC\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reality TV star and entrepreneur, Leo DaSilva, has raised concerns over the alarming prevalence of counterfeit products in supermarkets across Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing his experience via a post on X (formerly Twitter), DaSilva revealed that within just one month, he unknowingly purchased several fake products, including essential medications and health items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of fake drugs, fake deodorants, fake toothpaste, and fake skincare in Nigeria is ridiculous,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIn one month, I have bought fake cod liver oil, fake Gestid, fake Sensodyne, fake Simple face wash, fake deodorant, etc. NAFDAC needs to raid all big supermarkets in Abuja.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DaSilva emphasized that the issue is not limited to street vendors but is widespread even in large retail outlets.<\/p>\n<p>He called on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), to urgently raid supermarkets and intensify enforcement against the sale of counterfeit goods.<\/p>\n<p>In light of his claims, residents of Abuja are being urged to exercise caution, especially when buying medications, supplements, and personal care products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Reality TV star and entrepreneur, Leo DaSilva, has raised concerns over the alarming prevalence of counterfeit products in supermarkets across Abuja. Sharing his experience via a post on X (formerly Twitter), DaSilva revealed that within just one month, he unknowingly purchased several fake products, including essential medications and health items. \u201cThe amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71830","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\/71830","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=71830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71832,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71830\/revisions\/71832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}