•Alcohol in sachets The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) will begin the enforcement of the ban on the production and sale of alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and small bottles below 200ml by next month, December 2025. NAFDAC Director General, Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the directive during a press briefi...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and other health authorities have warned that even small amounts of alcohol do contribute to the risk of cancer in the body organs. Alcohol is now recognised as one of the top risk factors for cancer across Africa, with new studies showing strong links between drinking and diseases such as […]
A 20-year-old student of the Federal University Otuoke, FUO, Blessing Daniel, has narrated how alcohol influenced the maltreatment and almost murder of her friend in a viral video that sparked condemnation recently on the social media. Our correspondent gathered that the suspect with three of her friends lured the victim, Miss Nancy Wilfred...
•Fake alcohol packaging centres in Lagos The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has uncovered counterfeit alcohol packaging centres at Article Market, Abule-Osun, Lagos State, seizing items worth an estimated ₦2 billion. A NAFDAC statement today via X noted that, during the operation, over 50,000 fake branded labels a...
Alcohol kills nearly three million people annually, the World Health Organization said today, adding that while the death rate had dropped slightly in recent years it remained “unacceptably high”. The United Nations health agency’s latest report on alcohol and health said alcohol causes nearly one in 20 deaths globally each year, through drink...
Members of the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has given the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) 14 days to reverse its ban on sachet alcohol. The association, an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), issued the threat during a protest at the NAFDAC headquarters in [&helli...
•Prof Moji Adeyeye The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, yesterday, said there was no going back on the ban of the importation, manufacture, distribution, sale, and use of alcoholic beverages in sachets, PET, and glass bottles of 200ml and below. NAFDAC’s Director-General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, insisted that the ba...
•Governor Bago Chika Otuchikere writes that although Niger State Government has denied the ban on alcoholic drinks, some local governments are insisting that the drinks remain banned in their areas, reports The PUNCH Niger State is a signatory to the Islamic Sharia law which allows the Islamic or Sharia law to operate side by side […]...
•Alcohol in sachet Members of the Distillers and Blenders Association of Nigeria have said they are storming the Lagos office of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control to protest against the ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in sachets. In an invite sent to this paper yesterday, the […]
•Beer Saudi Arabia plans to allow the sale of alcohol to non-Muslim diplomats for the first time, two sources familiar with the plan told our correspondent today. Alcohol “will be sold to non-Muslim diplomats” who previously had to import alcohol via a diplomatic pouch, one of the sources said. Prohibition has been the law of […]
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