Nigeria’s House of Representatives has initiated efforts to create a comprehensive national framework for regulating alcohol consumption to address increasing social and public health issues from substance abuse. Sponsored by Mr. Oluwatimehin Adelegbe, Chairman of the House Adhoc Committee on Drug Trafficking, Tobacco and Alcohol Abuse, the bill, titled “A Bill for an Act to Provide for the Control, Regulation and Reduction of Alcohol-Related Harm in Nigeria,” has passed its first reading.
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