{"id":60339,"date":"2020-01-30T15:21:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T07:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60339"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T07:21:19","slug":"nigeria-closes-shop-over-coronavirus-seafood-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60339","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria closes shop over coronavirus seafood fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Nigeria-closes-shop-over-coronavirus-seafood-fears-851392?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/199\/19912425.295.jpg\" alt=\"The FCCPC said they made the discovery during a \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>The FCCPC said they made the discovery during a &#8220;surprise&#8221; inspection.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> ABUJA, Jan 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The consumer protection agency in Nigeria says it has closed down a supermarket selling &#8220;illegally imported seafood and meat&#8221; in the capital, Abuja, over ongoing fears about the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) said they made the discovery during a &#8220;surprise&#8221; inspection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency said that many of the products it found in the supermarket had irregular or expired dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FCCPC tweeted photos of the operation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goods were reportedly stored in a hidden area of the supermarket, reserved for Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new coronavirus is believed to have emerged from illegally traded wildlife at a seafood market in China&#8217;s Wuhan city. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FCCPC said they made the discovery during a &#8220;surprise&#8221; inspection. ABUJA, Jan 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The consumer protection agency in Nigeria says it has closed down a supermarket selling &#8220;illegally imported seafood and meat&#8221; in the capital, Abuja, over ongoing fears about the spread of coronavirus. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}