The NAFDAC boss, Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye, Professor of Pharmaceutics, Manufacturing Science and Drug Product Evaluation at the College of Pharmacy, Roosevelt University in Schaumburg, Illinois has issued her final verdict on a compulsory crackdown on sachet alcohol production and small bottle Alcohol production in Nigeria siting it's affordability and accessibility as a key factor for increasing alcohol intake in the Nigerian communities. Alcohol being a social drug has been earmarked as a leading cause of most social vices. Being a social drug which is only regulated against under age intakes, NAFDAC now notes that the production of this alcoholic beverages in affordable packages has led to the increased intake among the under age school children and poor masses who easily lay their hands on the cheap quantities of alcohol in these sachets and small bottles as they are always sold for as low as #100 in almost every store.
The director general gave 31/12/2025 as the final deadline for the production and sell of these low priced alcohol beverages in small packaging kits. Since her appointment by Late President Muhammadu Buhari on 03/11/2017 she has been fighting to moderate this alcohol production and sell. In 2018, she noted that 5 years notice was given of which it ended since 2023 and now she's back in full force to end any more postponement and enforce this ban. This came after the conclusion of
2025 Joint Annual review council on Health (watch) of which NAFDAC co-hosted during which this announcement was made and strategies for sensitisation and complete actualisation was discussed.
Do you think this enforcement will be effective in minimising alcohol intake among under aged and poor masses?
Do you think NAFDAC will succeed in enforcing this law come December 31st or will it just end like every other reforms that died naturally?
