By our reporter 12.11.2025
As the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) prepares to ban the sale of alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and small pet bottles the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has warned 500,000 jobs and N1.9 trillion investment will be lost.
The Senate during a hearing on November 6, 2025, passed a resolution mandating NAFDAC to stop alcohol in satchels and small pet bottles by December 31, 2025.
MAN director-general Segun Ajayi-Kadir, said the banning of products in sachets did not take into considering stakeholders concerns and also the position of the House of Representatives on the same matter has been overlooked.
“We also believe that a stakeholders’ consultation, either through a public hearing or focused meetings with relevant stakeholders in the alcohol beverages industry, should have been called by the relevant Senate Committee before a ban is ordered. This was the route that was painstakingly followed by the House of Representatives in the recent past.
“It is our position that NAFDAC should have presented its opinion to the Committee and the Ministry during the validation, rather than by-passing these processes and opting to approach the National Assembly without giving other stakeholders the opportunity to be consulted or to respond.”
According to the association the ban will lead to the loss of over N1.9 trillion investment, largely by the indigenous Nigerian companies; consequential mass retrenchment of over 500,000 direct employees and approximately 5 million indirect through contracts, marketing and other logistics.
“Loss of indigenous businesses that may gradually obliterate local entrepreneurship development in the economy.”
