{"id":17240,"date":"2025-09-24T09:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=17240"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:10:09","slug":"fcpc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/fcpc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FCCPC Warns Loan Apps, Urges Nigerians To Report Harassment Over Unpaid Loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has issued a strong warning to loan apps and businesses that harass or int+midate Nigerians over unpaid debts.<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to safeguard consumers, the commission has urged Nigerians to promptly report any form of harassment or int+midation by such lenders.<\/p>\n<p>This directive follows rising complaints about aggressive debt recovery tactics, including threatening phone calls, text messages, and public shaming on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Reaffirming its stance, the FCCPC stressed that \u201cno consumer should live in fear\u201d and assured Nigerians that it remains committed to protecting them from unfair and deceptive practices.<\/p>\n<p>It also warned loan apps and businesses that continued harassment will attract serious sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The commission further encouraged Nigerians to channel complaints through its official website and social media platforms, assuring that swift action will be taken against offenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has issued a strong warning to loan apps and businesses that harass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17242,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240\/revisions\/17242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}