Telecommunications subscribers across Nigeria have regained access to emergency airtime lending services after Airtel and Glo restored the platforms. The development followed the suspension of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission’s (FCCPC) controversial Digital, Electronic, Online or Non-Traditional Consumer Lending Regulations 2025. The restoration also came amid legal pressure …
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The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has warned Nigerians against consuming fruits ripened with calcium carbide. The Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FCCPC, Mr Olatunji Bello, gave the warning on Monday at a one-day sensitisation programme on food quality standards, organised by the agency in Ado-Ekiti. …
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MultiChoice Nigeria and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) have both filed appeals at the Court of Appeal in Abuja over a recent Federal High Court judgment concerning subscription price increases on DStv and GOtv platforms. The legal dispute centres on whether a private company operating in a …
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THE Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has sealed a visa application centre, TLSContact, over alleged obstruction of the Commission’s investigation into a consumer complaint. The operation occurred at the TLSContact office in Abuja, in the company of police officers and other security operatives. A report by Nairametrics said …
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A new industry has mushroomed in the last few weeks in Nigeria. Let us, for want of a better phrase, call it “Pay As You Go” media market in which a litigant loses in court and the next thing, they pay hack writers, “TV pocket lawyers” and online hustlers to …
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THE Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC, has dissociated itself from the operations of a consumer protection entity known as the Community Crime Prevention Initiative of Nigeria. The commission in a statement issued by Ondaje Ijagwu, its Director, Corporate Affairs, in Abuja on Thursday, said that it had sealed …
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THE Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), says the threat by WhatsApp to exit Nigeria due to the Commission’s recent order will not exonerate the company from the outcome of a judicial process. FCCPC in a statement signed by Mr Ondaje Ijagwu the Director, Corporate Affairs in Abuja on …
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THE Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has reacted to reports on Meta threatening to exit Nigeria over the Court’s affirmation of the Commission’s $290 million fine against the company. The Commission, in a statement signed by its Director of Public Affairs, Ondaje Ijagwu, described Meta’s threat as “a …
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THE Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has hailed the Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal for its judgment in the appeal filed by Meta Platforms Incorporated (Facebook) and WhatsApp LLC. This is contained in a statement by the FCCPC Director, Corporate Affairs, Mr Ondaje Ijagwu, on Friday in Abuja. …
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THE Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), has raided and sealed some shops at Utako market for selling re-bagged and under-weight bags of rice. Sealing the shops in Abuja on Tuesday, Mrs Boladale Adeyinka, the Director, Surveillance and Investigations Department of FCCPC, said the raid followed an intelligence gathered …
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