{"id":83073,"date":"2026-02-26T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83073"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:24:20","slug":"alcohol-sachet-ban-labour-unions-resume-protest-at-nafdac-lagos-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/26\/alcohol-sachet-ban-labour-unions-resume-protest-at-nafdac-lagos-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol Sachet Ban: Labour Unions Resume Protest at NAFDAC Lagos Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The face-off between labour unions and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control entered its seventh day on Thursday as members of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria and the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association picketed the agency\u2019s Isolo office in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters blocked the entrance from about 7:00 a.m., chanting \u201cNo work for us, no work for you,\u201d and prevented staff from gaining access for nearly two hours. Activities later resumed following the intervention of officers of the Nigeria Police Force. No violence was recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The protest is against NAFDAC\u2019s enforcement of a ban on sachet alcohol and 10cl PET bottled products, which has led to the sealing of several factories, depots and warehouses nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for the workers, Jeffery Igein, National Secretary of the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association, said the unions would sustain the action until sealed facilities are reopened.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, TUC Secretary Anthony Oyaga described the enforcement under NAFDAC Director-General Mojisola Adeyeye as economically harmful, alleging that entire facilities, including warehouses with unrelated products, were shut.<\/p>\n<p>The unions called for dialogue and urged President Bola Tinubu and other stakeholders to intervene, warning that prolonged closures could worsen job losses and economic hardship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The face-off between labour unions and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control entered its seventh day on Thursday as members of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria and the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association picketed the agency\u2019s Isolo office in Lagos. Protesters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83073","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=83073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83075,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83073\/revisions\/83075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}