The Federal Government has launched a national alcohol policy covering 2026 to 2030, targeting harmful drinking and the illicit alcohol trade while setting regulatory terms for legitimate producers.
Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare Muhammad Ali Pate said the policy treats alcohol as both a public health and a national development issue.
NAFDAC Director-General Mojisola Adeyeye said the agency would implement the policy through science-based regulation, monitoring and surveillance.
The policy sets four priority areas: harm reduction and health promotion, industrial and economic development, multisectoral coordination and governance, and monitoring, evaluation and research.
Figures cited at the launch put Nigerian consumption at 3.2 litres of pure alcohol per person aged 15 and above in 2024. Illicit products account for about 40 per cent of the spirits and wines market, with annual revenue losses estimated at more than N428 billion.
NAFDAC is the federal agency responsible for registering and regulating food, drugs and packaged beverages in Nigeria, and Adeyeye’s commitment places alcohol surveillance within that existing mandate rather than a new enforcement body.
The policy runs to 2030, which places its review point after the 2027 general election and inside the term of the next administration.
Why it matters: A NAFDAC-enforced policy brings roughly two in five spirits and wine products sold in Nigeria inside a formal regulatory system.
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