Again, FCCPC floors Air Peace as court affirms authority to probe ticket pricing

The Federal High Court successful Abuja has upheld the statutory authorization of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC, to analyse user complaints relating to hose summons pricing, affirming that specified investigations bash not magnitude to terms regulation.

In a judgement delivered connected June 29, 2026, Justice B.F.M. Nyako dismissed a suit filed by Air Peace Limited, which challenged the Commission’s authorization to analyse allegations of exploitative airfare pricing.

The tribunal ruled that the FCCPC’s investigative powers nether the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act, FCCPA, 2018, are abstracted from its powers to modulate prices.

According to the judgment, the Commission acted wrong its ineligible mandate erstwhile it requested accusation from Air Peace pursuing wide user complaints implicit crisp increases successful home airfares successful December 2024.

Air Peace had argued that the FCCPC could not analyse airfare pricing unless the President archetypal invoked the terms regularisation provisions contained successful the FCCPA.

The hose sought declarations restraining the Commission from conducting specified investigations.

However, Justice Nyako rejected the airline’s arguments, holding that the Commission lawfully exercised its investigative powers nether Sections 17, 32 and 33 of the FCCPA.

The tribunal stressed that the...