₦airaland Forum

Nigeria's Youth Cannot Build the Future on Sachet Alcohol

By Comrade WyQayL



The strength of every nation lies in the quality, productivity and wellbeing of its youth. They constitute the largest segment of the workforce, drive innovation, create wealth and sustain economic growth. Any government genuinely committed to national development must therefore place the welfare, empowerment and productivity of young people at the centre of its policies.

A nation cannot expect sustainable economic progress when millions of its young people are unemployed, underemployed or abandoned to social vices. Gainful employment, vocational training, entrepreneurship support and meaningful engagement are not merely social programmes; they are strategic investments in national security and economic prosperity. As the old saying goes, an idle mind is the devil's workshop. Youths who are productively engaged are far less likely to become victims of crime, drug abuse or other destructive behaviours.

One of the gravest but often overlooked threats to Nigeria's future is the widespread consumption of highly concentrated sachet alcohol. Across the country, these products are sold openly in motor parks, roadside stalls, neighbourhood shops and even by hawkers navigating traffic congestion, almost as commonly as sachet water. Their availability has become so normalised that many Nigerians scarcely question the danger they pose.

The affordability and portability of these alcoholic sachets make them especially attractive to young people and, disturbingly, to underage consumers. Because they are inexpensive and easy to conceal, many youths carry them in their pockets and consume them with little fear of detection. What should alarm policymakers is not merely the growing rate of alcohol consumption but the culture of dependence that is gradually taking root among the nation's most productive population.

The consequences extend beyond individual health. Excessive alcohol consumption contributes to liver disease, mental health disorders, impaired judgment and reduced cognitive performance. These conditions diminish the capacity of young Nigerians to innovate, learn, compete and contribute meaningfully to national development. A country whose workforce is increasingly weakened by substance abuse cannot realistically aspire to economic transformation.

The economic implications are equally disturbing. Productivity declines when workers are physically and mentally impaired. Businesses suffer from absenteeism and reduced efficiency, while government bears an increasing healthcare burden. Resources that should be invested in education, infrastructure and industrial development are instead diverted to treating preventable illnesses associated with alcohol abuse. This is not merely a public health issue; it is an economic emergency.

It is therefore unsurprising that public health experts have consistently warned against the proliferation of these products. The Federal Government's decision to ban the production and sale of alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and bottles below 200 millilitres was a commendable step. However, the policy has achieved little because enforcement remains weak and inconsistent.

Manufacturers and labour unions have argued that a strict implementation of the ban could threaten investments and result in job losses. While those concerns deserve consideration, they cannot outweigh the long-term health and economic costs of exposing an entire generation to harmful alcohol consumption. Governments exist to protect lives and promote the public good, even when doing so requires difficult policy choices.

Nigeria must not sacrifice the future of its youth for short-term commercial interests. Stronger enforcement of existing regulations, stricter restrictions on alcohol advertising targeted at young people, sustained public awareness campaigns and expanded rehabilitation services should form part of a comprehensive national strategy to combat alcohol abuse.

The nation's future depends on a healthy, educated and productive youth population. Allowing sachet alcohol to continue flooding the market without effective control is equivalent to weakening the very engine of Nigeria's economic growth. The time for decisive action is now. Protecting Nigerian youths is not simply a health policy—it is an economic necessity and a patriotic duty.

5 years ago, if someone told me I will stop alcohol or reduce it drastically, I will argue

I lost the taste for alcohol due to constant taking of milk and yogurt

Not 35% interest loan with very difficult conditions to get that 98% of youths can’t get

Not the government import and export flip flop policies

Not lack of quality education

Not poor economic spending power

Not difficult in registering businesses

Not insecurity

Not lack of market structure

Not lack of access to skill training

Yes drinking alcohol mall pack is the reason Nigerians youths are not economically stable

Make una live sachet ooo, that's the only hope of a common man

Nigerians youths
Go and collect Ur PVC
Vote Tinubu
For continuation

muyico:
Nigerians youths
Go and collect Ur PVC
Vote Tinubu
For continuation

Abi o.

If we can't build our future on sachet alochol, at least we can build it on akara selling in the absence of jobs promised by the master strategist husband of the winchious First Lady.

APC is truly All Promises Cancelled.

OkCornel:
Dear sycophants

On August 29 2023, Tinubu’s government promised to create 50 million jobs and revive the economy.

This is almost one year. How far with your messiah’s plan?

Where is the economic revival? Where are the jobs?

https://www.nairaland.com/7821154/tinubu-sets-3-year-economic-revival

Why are the youth drinking sachet alcohol

You are encouraging government to enforce the ban on sachet alcohol

Do you realize that it will push the youth to get that relief from other sources

Kai Kai
Monkey tail
Burukutu

And other unregulated forms of alcohol


Why not encourage government to give the youth jobs, and watch how automatically there will be a reduction in consumption of alcohol and other vices.

Things are so hard in this country
People are looking for escape
Mkurummiri started trending when Bubari was in power,
Things have only gotten worse


Almost every girl is into hookup

People are being kidnapped everyday


BUT YOUR PROBLEM IS SACHET ALCOHOL

At a time, they lived on it.

Now, they live on chemicals a million times potent, injurious and dangerous.

Unfortunately, for every of their misfortune, it is the country that has happened to them according to their warped illogicality in the thought of logic.

In Nigeria

We love to blame and punish victims

The YOUTH ARE VICTIMS

Help them, don’t punish them more


Give them jobs, don’t tell them to fry akara

The small content creation they are doing, you have started taxing them in Lagos

The small sports betting they are doing to survive, you want to start taxing it

The small alcohol they are drinking to forget their pains and sorrows, you ban it

When they start buying alcohol and harder drugs in the black market

You will say they are lazy youth


God will punish you OP for creating this thread


Tell your sponsors to give youth jobs


You increase fuel price, they can’t do small businesses any longer

Yes o. We need to spread the gospel

Even inside hairdressing salon

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Why are the youth drinking sachet alcohol

You are encouraging government to enforce the ban on sachet alcohol

Do you realize that it will push the youth to get that relief from other sources

Kai Kai
Monkey tail
Burukutu

And other unregulated forms of alcohol


Why not encourage government to give the youth jobs, and watch how automatically there will be a reduction in consumption of alcohol and other vices.

Things are so hard in this country
People are looking for escape
Mkurummiri started trending when Bubari was in power,
Things have only gotten worse


Almost every girl is into hookup

People are being kidnapped everyday


BUT YOUR PROBLEM IS SACHET ALCOHOL

You failed to mention that it is the problems you highlighted above that made EJIKE OFOEGBU to do what he did on the social media against Soludo.

You failed to highlight it as being responsible for the success of Nigerian youths that participated and won in the Mathematics competition.

Have you taken your own Mpurunmiri today?

Tell your neighbor, it is my time to mis-yarn.

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Why are the youth drinking sachet alcohol

You are encouraging government to enforce the ban on sachet alcohol

Do you realize that it will push the youth to get that relief from other sources

Kai Kai
Monkey tail
Burukutu

And other unregulated forms of alcohol


Why not encourage government to give the youth jobs, and watch how automatically there will be a reduction in consumption of alcohol and other vices.

Things are so hard in this country
People are looking for escape
Mkurummiri started trending when Bubari was in power,
Things have only gotten worse


Almost every girl is into hookup

People are being kidnapped everyday


BUT YOUR PROBLEM IS SACHET ALCOHOL

Very sad situation, i noticed that there are too many single mothers also. It has never been this bad ever!

2015
I was in Lagos

I didn’t have a job
Or food to eat

I started hanging out in a brothel

So many young people there, taking all sorts of hard drugs

Then tramadol was also reigning

Instead of eating, people will take pills and sleep the whole day


I started joining in

2016
I got a job


From 2016 to 2026
Marijuana has not entered my mouth

10 whole fucking years
My life just changed automatically
Just because of A JOB


The salary wasn’t even big
N62,500 per month

That is all it took
To get me off the streets

Nobody had to tell me
To sit up
You can’t take alcohol and work in the office environment

You Nigerians are wicked and evil people

helinues:
5 years ago, if someone told me I will stop alcohol or reduce it drastically, I will argue

I lost the taste for alcohol due to constant taking of milk and yogurt

stop lying, you are still taking it before coming to nairaland

donmixc:
stop lying, you are still taking it before coming to nairaland

Is the years of trolling a curse? You are not even interested in making any sense when you are doing the trolling

Fenuja is destroying people's life. NAFDAC is not helping matter, this is part of the reason many adults are behaving like kids.

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2015
I was in Lagos

I didn’t have a job
Or food to eat

I started hanging out in a brothel

So many young people there, taking all sorts of hard drugs

Then tramadol was also reigning

Instead of eating, people will take pills and sleep the whole day


I started joining in

2016
I got a job


From 2016 to 2026
Marijuana has not entered my mouth

10 whole fucking years
My life just changed automatically
Just because of A JOB


The salary wasn’t even big
N62,500 per month

That is all it took
To get me off the streets

Nobody had to tell me
To sit up
You can’t take alcohol and work in the office environment

You Nigerians are wicked and evil people

Thank God for you.
You're not far from the truth,I recently quit tobacco 3years ago due to the nature of my job for the past 3 years. But I've had blunts of MJ responsibly every day since 2011 till this morning. Any other thing aside Scottish MJ is a no no for me including alcohol of any quantity. Also, it's advisable for one to readjust according to one's source of income. For instance, a banker should not be an addict of any high substance same as a surgeon.

opicgif:
In Nigeria

We love to blame and punish victims

The YOUTH ARE VICTIMS

Help them, don’t punish them more


Give them jobs, don’t tell them to fry akara

The small content creation they are doing, you have started taxing them in Lagos

The small sports betting they are doing to survive, you want to start taxing it

The small alcohol they are drinking to forget their pains and sorrows, you ban it

When they start buying alcohol and harder drugs in the black market

You will say they are lazy youth


God will punish you OP for creating this thread


Tell your sponsors to give youth jobs


You increase fuel price, they can’t do small businesses any longer

Jobs?? Nigerian youths are lazy abeggii most especially the graduate ones . Let's tell ourselves the truth. If government can't give you job create job for yourself and don't indulge in crimes. There are no miracles out there.

Rather than focus on the real problem which is bad parenting, communal indifference and a failed security structure, you are blaming a company making products without forcing anyone.

Satchet alcohol has existed from time immemorial, why is it just a problem now? I remember when it was N20 and everywhere, yet it wasn't a problem because the society actually functioned the way it should, especially the family structure.

This stupid habit of always looking for someone to blame is one of the reasons Nigeria may never get it right. Everyone always has someone else to blame for their own failures. A lady gets molested, you blame what she wore. Why not blame the animal that lacks self control? You spend all day in church rather than at your shop and your business starts to fail, you blame the devil and your enemies. Why not sit yourself down and see that your own actions are ruining you? You never stay home because of work and flex and later in future, you blame the devil for a wayward child. Were you ever present in the child's life?

Nigerians have a responsibility problem. Until that is resolved, not sure there's any path forward.

I want to blv this sachet thing is very common in the south west. I live ij ibadan and i see women hawking this alcohol in plastics rubber every corners even by the road side. I think it very dangerous and it shouod b cultail.

That sachet alcohol is their source of dopamine and serotonin release, as their coping mechanism, dealing with anxieties and stress.

Unfortunately, it doesn't end well.

Una go deh talk about job as if govt deh create job .

which job una want from govt in particular ?

no wonder Buhari said youths in Nigeria are lazy .....

people like una no deh go places at all ... majority of the people living promising and reasonably in Nigeria are self employed but una own na to deh wait for weting no go ever come from any govt till they kingdom come .

make una deh there deh waste una time o !

anonimi:
Abi o.

If we can't build our future on sachet alochol, at least we can build it on akara selling in the absence of jobs promised by the master strategist husband of the winchious First Lady.

APC is truly All Promises Cancelled.

This is true because the older folks who take it are nothing to write home about. So we the younger ones must avoid it

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One bottle now #1,500


1500*3bottles =#4,500 WHILE sachet is #200*3sachet =#600


TINUBU faults.



Noted：alcohol, gambling and cultism kills.

But on a whole bottle. Clap for yourself oga mii

oneMalik:
Una go deh talk about job as if govt deh create job .

which job una want from govt in particular?

no wonder Buhari said youths in Nigeria are lazy .....

people like una no deh go places at all ... majority of the people living promising and reasonably in Nigeria are self employed but una own na to deh wait for weting no go ever come from any govt till they kingdom come .

make una deh there deh waste una time o !

How does the government regulate private businesses without well paid civil servants to enforce laws and rules of engagement?

Without well paid professional civil servants, how will government provide common services and public utilities for all? Things like electricity & water supply, free basic education for all children, free basic healthcare, law & order that applies to everyone

Do you know what Stockholm syndrome means?
You can start your free education on the subject from the OP below:


https://www.nairaland.com/post/125340351

We can build it with dolar rate of 1500 per naira and fuel price of 1300 per liter,
15k for 1 bag of cement ,
Expensive house rent erc

That isn't milk verify each ingredients used for the production, just water please🙏

helinues:
5 years ago, if someone told me I will stop alcohol or reduce it drastically, I will argue

I lost the taste for alcohol due to constant taking of milk and yogurt