{"id":78161,"date":"2025-11-05T20:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78161"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:13:13","slug":"fccpc-seals-five-kano-warehouses-for-selling-underweight-fabrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/05\/fccpc-seals-five-kano-warehouses-for-selling-underweight-fabrics\/","title":{"rendered":"FCCPC Seals Five Kano Warehouses for Selling Underweight Fabrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), has sealed five textile warehouses in Kano for allegedly selling underweight and shortened fabrics to consumers while charging full price.<\/p>\n<p>The enforcement, led by Boladale Adeyinka, Director of Surveillance and Investigation, followed weeks of market monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>The affected distributors were found violating Sections 123(1) and 125(1) of the FCCPC Act (2018), which prohibit false or misleading claims on product quantity or pricing.<\/p>\n<p>Products involved included LGR, U&amp;Me, Nana Tex, Mama Africa, Hightex, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The warehouses were located in areas such as Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Gandun Abada Layout, and Bua Rice Mills Street.<\/p>\n<p>FCCPC CEO Tunji Bello said the action reflects the Commission\u2019s zero-tolerance stance against consumer exploitation, warning that such practices harm both buyers and honest traders.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that nationwide enforcement would continue to ensure fairness and consumer protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), has sealed five textile warehouses in Kano for allegedly selling underweight and shortened fabrics to consumers while charging full price. The enforcement, led by Boladale Adeyinka, Director of Surveillance and Investigation, followed weeks of market monitoring. The affected distributors were found violating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78161","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\/78161","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78165,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78161\/revisions\/78165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}