The Senate has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to enforce the ban on high-strength alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets starting December 2025. Lawmakers also ruled out any further extension of the current moratorium granted to manufacturers.
The resolution followed a motion by Senator Asuquo Ekpeyong, who recalled that the phased ban was introduced after consultations between NAFDAC, the Federal Ministry of Health, and industry groups, in response to growing health and social concerns over sachet alcohol consumption.
Senator Ekpeyong noted that manufacturers were initially given a five-year transition period under a 2018 Memorandum of Understanding and later granted an additional year in 2024 to exhaust existing stock and switch to compliant packaging.
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The Senate warned that the continued production of sachet alcohol poses serious public health and safety risks and urged the Ministry of Health to support NAFDAC’s enforcement and accelerate the release of a National Alcohol Policy to strengthen regulation and public awareness.
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