{"id":66127,"date":"2025-05-20T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66127"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:24:55","slug":"nafdac-sets-deadline-for-sachet-alcohol-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/20\/nafdac-sets-deadline-for-sachet-alcohol-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC Sets Deadline for Sachet Alcohol Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has clarified that the temporary lift on the ban of sachet alcohol is not a reversal but a grace period, which ends on December thirty first, twenty twenty five.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the agency, Kenneth Azikiwe, explained that the suspension was designed to give manufacturers time to adjust and collaborate with regulators ahead of a complete phase out of alcoholic products in sachets and bottles below two hundred millilitres.<\/p>\n<p>According to NAFDAC, the full enforcement of the ban will commence from January first, twenty twenty six.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has embarked on a nationwide awareness campaign, reaching all thirty six states to educate citizens about the dangers of underage drinking.<\/p>\n<p>It has mandated that all alcoholic products carry clear warnings against sale to minors.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC also commended the Distillers and Beverages Association of Nigeria for backing its public enlightenment drive, stressing that the regulation aims to safeguard public health and promote responsible alcohol consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has clarified that the temporary lift on the ban of sachet alcohol is not a reversal but a grace period, which ends on December thirty first, twenty twenty five. Director of the agency, Kenneth Azikiwe, explained that the suspension was designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66129,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66127\/revisions\/66129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}