₦airaland Forum

PlayerMeji:
Complete trust in God is the difference...

Some people would have been frothing foam from their mouths like palm wine 🌴 if this had happened to one of them..

The narrative would have been 'they don't like us because .....'

odimbannamdi:
Is there an alternative for Ventolin inhaler? I fear for my little nephew that is asthmatic...

victorVIC1:
You are the one that is being sentimental here. Perhaps you would see it from a logical point of view if you or your loved ones were affected by the ongoing retrenchment spree. List the local companies you are mentioning. All these companies are exposed to the same challenges and are frustrated by the economic environment. The raw materials that are used for manufacturing these products are sourced overseas and how you are obviously too short sighted to factor out the huge increment in production costs as a result of the FX rate.

victorVIC1:
Calm down...You need to also take cognizance of the fact that a huge proportion of those 290 employees have dependants and will feel the ripple effects of the situation. Also, multinationals hardly include contract and casual staffs when they disseminate these figures.

Also put into consideration businesses that depend on them for growth. GSK for example is a key customer to MDS (A member of the UAC group) which is responsible for their end to end logistics, packaging and warehouse operations. What do you think will happen to the MDS employees that are responsible for these operations.

It's important we look beyond face value when analysing certain subjects

casualobserver:
Companies come companies go. Consumer marketing is a zero sum game. It’s like a gas station you are only going to buy petrol from 1 gas station, you cannot fill your tank and buy petrol again into a tank that is full simply because there is another petrol station in your area. Just as you are not going to buy your medicine from all the pharmaceutical companies because you want to protect jobs.

If there were only 2 gas stations in the area to begin with and 4 people open 4 new gas stations in the same area, all that will happen is that some of the people who used to go to the 1st stations will start going to 1 or 2 of the new stations. The overall amount of petrol sold the area will remain the same….all other conditions remaining constant. Eventually some of those petrol stations will start to close down because they are not profitable due to competition and until the demand and supply of petrol stations in the area reaches an equilibrium level.

Eventually the equilibrium level may be 3. That may be the number of stations that the area can profitably handle. What this means is that of the 6 stations that existed at the peak, 3 of them as well as the jobs created by those 3 were not sustainable. It’s natural attrition no sentiment.

There are 219 jobs created by Fidson for example that did not exist when GSK controlled the market and there are hundreds of Nigerian pharmaceutical companies springing up every day creating new jobs.

If Peugeot did not leave Nigeria Honda, Kia, hyuandai, GAC would not be assembling cars in Nigeria. If anammco, Steyr, British leyland did not leave Nigeria there will be no INNOSON assembling busses and trucks. All these companies provide jobs and none of them existed when Peugeot, Mercedes’, Volkswagen, Landrover, British leyland controlled the local car assembly market.

If there is a market for a product the vacuum will be filled.

mamaafrik:
You forgot that they stayed for 51 years,291 or less ,someone's father and mother will be jobless.
Think

obyno82:
Dude stop trying to rationalize bull shit, Glaxo is one of the best pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria and for them to leave is an indication that all is not well. Bros fear God and speak the truth for once. Haba!!

trutharena:
This is injustice.

President Tinubu shouldn’t have succumbed to the people opposing Shetty. There is nothing on earth you can do that will please everybody, he should have just leave Shetty to continue.

Only God know how the Shetty lady will be feeling now. It’s even better they don’t announce her in the first place.

I hope all the Arewa youth condemning the nomination of Shetty are now happy.

obyno82:
dude before you start yapping nonsense, why not look at the value chain in the pharmaceutical business for a country like Nigeria 290 is far okay considering the multiplier effect in indirect jobs and the pharma industry has a high emphasis on Quality control standards, so it is not about employing a large workforce, but ensuring lean manufacturing by way of Automation. Astra Zeneca doesn't have as much employees as Heineken Netherlands. The issue is that the company through indirect jobs employs maybe up to 900 staff. The issue is that the harsh business environment is impacting everyone, so please stop this feeble attempt at downplaying the situation we are in.

obyno82:
Please tell me which Nigerian pharmaceutical company can compete well with GSK, please do not mention Fidson because they themselves too are also in this shit situation as well.

HNICEARTH:
Well done mr. Ignoramus.

Dont digress into GSK selling off a portfolio and all that. That's not the bone of contention.

Your line of arguement is that a big company like GSK having a staff strength of 290 is poor. Dont run away from that. I still went ahead and schooled you on what were the basic rudiments in production.
We've been there, we've done that.

The type of you will never succeed in production. Send a proposal to BOI with this mentality, and see how it will be trashed with the speed of light.

However, I will still go ahead and engage you in your new line of arguement.
GSK nigeria has a production plant in nigeria. The organisation is managed by nigerians. Most shareholders are nigerians and the company is a player in the NSE. you are now comparing such an organisation to a one man business that import drugs from india or china and give to graduates on the streets to sell. You are definitely on colos

First off, importing from india and china means we are outsourcing jobs to china and india. We are not adding value to the production value chain. We only succeed in keeping Indians and chinese employed. Same time wasting our hard earned forex while making india and china richer.
Those companies that import from china and india, pls mention any one of them that is a player in NSE. none!
In the Nigerian pharma industry, GSK are basically at the top when it comes to staff enumeration and welfare. They are top shelf. None of those mushroom companies who import pay their staff as half as GSK. Not to talk about car policies for the field reps and other welfare packages.

No matter how expensive their brands are and the competition there in, they still remain the brands of choice in all states and federal teaching hospitals, in all FMCs, in all boutique private hospitals and in all boutique pharmacies nationwide.
Their business model was never to sell to 200m nigerians, they are out to service all the elites. That's why their products are best in class

vannessa7:
Thanks for this, my first thought after reading the thread was how everywhere is filled with paracetamol, karaole, alabunkun, and many other analgesic, so many brand of amoxicillin everywhere, but the the thoughtless, hate filled, illiterates have already started dropping their poo all over the thread, doing what they know how to do best. General nuisance and obnoxious.

HNICEARTH:
Talk is cheap. You think profitable production is having an over bloated workforce like the nigerian civil service?

Alot of production especially is pharma and food industries are automated with few personnel ensuring set parameters and quality control are functional. You only need much personnel in management/admin and sales end part of it.

YouAreNobody:
You yourself know this thing you spewed is bunkum. Is 290 people not a lot? This doesn't even include the people indirectly employed by them. An international company just exited the country due to the harsh business environment and you're downplaying it like it's nothing. If 10 of them exit, how many will be left?

ElSudani:
Feel bad for Maryam. I don't get the opposition to her nomination. Her time will surely come.

So Malam and Ali Pate will sit in FEC with dem Maryam Shetty? 😓 pic.twitter.com/7qf907HILt

— ® المهندس ادم حیاة (@AHayatu) August 2, 2023

saphiere:
Run! Run!! Run!!!
My sister run away from the following men..

1. The ones who ask you what you have to offer. These are irresponsible men. They are looking for who to shift their responsibilities to. If not, why would they ask such a dummy question.

[b]I agree they have no intention of marriage but also the woman is likely an u desirable life partner, let me explain.

If a man asks what a woman brings to the table it’s because he doesn’t see the value she adds to his life. A man can see the value in a desirable woman without asking. Asking a woman is merely trying to belittle the woman. Let me make this clear, you don’t add value to a man merely because you are a woman. Women need to purge themselves of this mindset that they add value simply because they are women. Just like not every man has value to add to a woman. Many woman have little value to add to a man. Let me also say that a well brought up man will not ask this question because if he realizes a woman adds no value to him, he will just walk away. So asking this question is a poor reflection on both the woman and the man. Nobody asks a woman of value what she brings because it is obvious, no man tries to belittle a woman of low value by asking her such a question. [/b]

Let me stress this no woman will ask Dangote, Elumelu, Bosun Tijani, Elon Musk or any up and coming hardworking, ambitious young man what he brings to her life because it is clear even if it hasn’t manifested. If a woman asks a man, it is because she sees him as a loser, a bum going nowhere, it is similar for a man.

Aman does not ask that question seeking an answer, he asks to tell the woman he has no regard for her as a potential life partner. It is a question asked out of contempt. If I were a woman, I would take a look at myself not the man, despite it being ungentlemanly and bad behavior from a man. A man knows a good woman when he sees one even if she is not for him.



2. Men who are interested in your past than your future. Always asking you about your past life. These ones are not ready for marriage.

A man’s value is in his future and a woman’s value is in her past. A woman wants to know if a man has the ability, ambition, etc to provide for her and her children and aman wants to know if his future wife and mother of his children has a past that will be a source of embarrassment and shame to him and his family

3. The ones who always want to have their way between your legs whenever you visit them. They can never marry you. It's that sexx that is keeping them.

If a man did not rape you, you are responsible for opening your legs or keeping them shut and the consequences thereof on your life and your resultant value in the market .

4. The ones who do not tell you their plans. Always being secretive. You are not important to them because I see no reason a man should keep his plans away from the one he wants to spend the rest of his life with.

I agree with this

5. The ones who tell their parents almost every about them. They want to eat rice today mum will know. The want to send you 5k their daddy will know.

This works for men and women.

6. The ones who can't introduce you to their friends. They will not marry you.

100% agree

Termily:
Nice one

accordadoga28:
Am I the only one who thinks this man is not mentally stable?

Even from his moronic facial expressions all the time, you will find out he is not 100% ok

Deluded man!!!

The mandate thief is already out of his mind.

Depression has set in.

He keeps looking for what is not lost.

From looking for his stolen mandate that is not lost to looking for a phone he never lost.

May we not labour in vain

Tycyborg:
I wonder the school you people attended or you all just want to prove ignorant by spreading a false story.
Even if Niger build a hydro dam which they can't even build in 10 years time cos they are very poor, they are not the one in charge of the river cos the source is from guinea so the Guinea which is a good friend of Nigeria can cut off both Mali and Niger
,Besides 80 to 85 percent of Nigeria electricity comes from gas turbine not hydro... The hydro can only supply 700mw to 750mw.... So we can do without the dam... Do you just think sanctions just happen without clear planed thoughts... Russia could stand sanctions because they are self sufficient to some extent... Venezuela, Cuba, Iran and so on were still under ground from sanctions let alone a very poor country like Niger.
At least if you don't know things. It isn't bad to do some research. Simple.

2day42moro:
Reverse the fuel price now. Simple

TemplarLandry:
We ain't called the Giant of Africa for no reason.

I dedicate “Basquiat” by Asake to my beloved Nigeria. Great jam!

Zezco:
It's possible because those private schools don't follow public school rules on age then.

I started secondary at the age of 11 and I have classmates who are 8 and 9 years in j.s.s one class in 90's.

Curse777:



I wonder what he is planning to contest for

Edo State is PDP vs Labour Party show down

2024.. in Edo would be intresting..

Oshiomole is also cooking


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phemmyfour:
you are lying, that's why you couldn't name the school

phemmyfour:
Not possible in the 80s. Most schools then were govt/missionary schools and very strict with entry age