The Senate on November 6, 2025, directed the regulatory body to strictly enforce the ban on the packaging of high-strength alcoholic beverages in sachet formats beginning December 2025. Meanwhile, on January 21, NAFDAC announced that it had received a matching order from the Senate to proceed with the enforcement of the ban. “We already started the enforcement to ban alcohol production in sachets and bottles below 200ml, after we received the order from the Senate. Members of the Food, Beverages and Tobacco Senior Staff Association and the National Union of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employees, on January 27, protested in Lagos, arguing that the ban threatened livelihoods across the value chain. They disputed claims that sachet alcohol fueled underage drinking, insisting there was no publicly available data linking the packaging format directly to its consumption by youth.