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Currently, studies on how and\u00a0why young Africans abstain from alcohol or drink moderately are lacking. Therefore, there is a need to examine young people\u2019s drinking behaviours\/practices on the continent to facilitate health promotion interventions. This study, which uses qualitative data elicited from 53 participants, explores how young Nigerian men and women who consume alcohol and drink heavily enact and negotiate abstinence and moderate drinking and the factors that motivate their choices. Some participants constructed situational abstinence, while others participated in temporary light drinking in their friendship networks, but these attracted some consequences. Peers pressured them, but some deployed the ability to offer \u2018valid\u2019 explanations and express self-determination and agency to ward off such pressures and negotiate situational abstinence or moderate drinking. 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