Considering The Fact That Chemical Engineers Are Valued Than Industrial Chemist In Industries Now, What Is The Future Of An Industrial Chemist? Is It A Dead Course Already?.
The Reason Why I Am Curious, Is That I Noticed Majority Of Industrial Chemistry Graduates Does Not Have Anything Going On For Them And That Really Scares Me.

...in securing our profession, that is where ICCON have failed!!! In pharmaceutical companies, NAFDAC insist that the person in charge of production must be a pharmacy (a production pharmacist) whereas that is the job of an industrial chemist. If you come down to quality control, we are battling it with Biochemists. When the industrial process becomes large and cumbersome, the Chemical engineer takes it all. Advances in technology is worsening the case. For instance, microelectronic and embedded systems have led to cheap, simple and easy-to-use technologies that can do several real time, in-process and on-the-spot analyses that could have only been done by a chemist in a conventional lab. But today any person that lays hand on any of those kits can run hundreds of analyses on the go. The big problem in Nigeria is that we are not following the world trend in education. Here, industrial chemistry training begins and ends in "titration". Our curriculum need to be upgraded to include areas like computing, design, embedded systems, automation, instrumentation etc. Our regulatory bodies (CSN and ICCON) should really do something to keep this profession relevant. Industrial chemistry is still relevant!

You are very correct OP.I also observed same that many industrial chemists hardly get employed recently though the job is still highly relevant,it's sad that we share our job opportunities with many other fields and that makes it very competitive for us.Moreso some multinational companies like Nigerian Breweries now require a masters degree to even enrol as a graduate trainee leaving the first degree holder with little or no hope.Also this is a field that your industrial experience is highly needed but our tertiary institutions fails to recognise this.All they focus on is academic work and they fail to mandate industrial training programmes for undergraduate students leaving most Ind. Chemistry graduates half baked when they leave school.