idupaul:


So where are you going to get Arthemeter and Lumenfantrine from in the next 6 years please ? Is the Infrastructural support like power and banking support available ...Are you aware that research and development for drug creation from start to human clinical takes a minimum for 10 years? Are you aware non of the active ingredients needed for a proper generic antimalarial can be currently sourced locally ? Enjoy your job but open your eyes

dont confuse me joor..

i dont understand anything medicin...

soo..why bother me with words i never heard before in my life?...

what?? what.....?
..

Taxing essential commodity ... Bubu y ... In my mother's tongue I ll say D's to buhari ... Olorun a doju ti e ... How can ds govt keep taxing n taxing without relief, result ... Minimum wage still d same ... Na wa o

idupaul:


Do you know of any natural healer that can stop a ravaging 3 plus malaria? I don't know any Sir

they are still here..

you just have to ask around...

all this tablets we are using can get useless one day..
then what??..

i already said bacterias are getting more resistant...

thats not a lie..
its global news...

darknetcom:
you people are sooo negative...

all this bans and high tax is to encourage locals to do this things yourself...

why cant you people ever see that??...

The cost of Malaria medication (local or imported) is already averaging over 1,000 naira.

How many poor Nigerians can afford that?

OAUTemitayo:
Some people don't have common sense.
You are crying here and there that there is no job and the government using fiscal policies is trying to boost local production of goods that can translate to more employment opportunities yet you are still cursing the government.
Common sense is not common.

Afonjaz
Always funny
Defending mediocrity is their calling

ALMUSTAQIM:
WE HAVE SO MANY PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS HERE PRODUCING ANTI MALARIA & ANTIBIOTICS


WHY SHOULD ANY GOOD NIGERIAN BE IMPORTING THESE

WHY SHOULD THESE IPOBIANS, BIAFRANS, AVENGERERS & OTHER BAD BAD PEOPLES ALWAYS HATE EVERY NATIONALIST MOVE BY THE FG.

ANYWAY, YOU CAN WAIL TILL ETERNITY



GOD BLESS PMB1523

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

I thank you for this point you raised. This Forum is filled with sentimental bigots who can't reason beyond religious, tribal, ethnic and Political sentiments
The same PMB tried to reduce importation and strengthen the naira by increasing availability of dollars in the country but people screamed to high heavens.
Importation of drugs are mostly done by the Igbos and they determine the prices,
So how dare you clueless ones blame PMB for that,
You can condemn this administration as much as you like but if it fails we all suffer and if it succeeds we all succeed.
And news for all that rejoice over PMBs failure...... our Children will feel the impact not PMB

ALMUSTAQIM:
WE HAVE SO MANY PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS HERE PRODUCING ANTI MALARIA & ANTIBIOTICS


WHY SHOULD ANY GOOD NIGERIAN BE IMPORTING THESE

WHY SHOULD THESE IPOBIANS, BIAFRANS, AVENGERERS & OTHER BAD BAD PEOPLES ALWAYS HATE EVERY NATIONALIST MOVE BY THE FG.

ANYWAY, YOU CAN WAIL TILL ETERNITY



GOD BLESS PMB1523

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

This is one of the problems Nigerians are facing, instead of addressing the issue at hand, u will delve into playing emotional and tribal sentiments. Same with that Sarrki nd his group of deluded individuals.
What's the correlation of this News and IPOB or Igbos
Are u okay?

KidsNEXTdoor:
Afonjaz Always funny Defending mediocrity is their calling

Swerve

dosk:


I thank you for this point you raised. This Forum is filled with sentimental bigots who can't reason beyond religious, tribal, ethnic and Political sentiments
The same PMB tried to reduce importation and strengthen the naira by increasing availability of dollars in the country but people screamed to high heavens.
Importation of drugs are mostly done by the Igbos and they determine the prices,
So how dare you clueless ones blame PMB for that,
You can condemn this administration as much as you like but if it fails we all suffer and if it succeeds we all succeed.
And news for all that rejoice over PMBs failure...... our Children will feel the impact not PMB

Dont worry this anti malarial tariff increase will surely affect your entire family and then we can talk

The 'change' will surely reach everyone, both the sick and the healthy.

Nigeria is finished

Nigeria will NOT continue importing all manner of drugs into the country. I am g3tting sick of Nairaland. It appears every one hangs his brains at home while posting or some people on the platform have not even gone to school.
Nigeria has some of the best pharmaceutical companies in the world and that industry should be allowed to grow.
I don't like to be tribalistic but the IBO tribe is losing its collective IQ. Just listen to some extent of the LIES some young ones are posting here. Some idiot even called it wicked and heartless. What congenital stupidity wold make one not reason before commenting?. All SE owned pharmaceutical companies are being protected by the same m3asure that done stupid young Ibos are calling heartless. So it is "heartful" for Nigeria to be importing Chloroquine?
This is a LOST generation

I have taken a measure of this tribe and they won't amount you anything. In the 60s, they were broad minded, intellectual, free but the children of the children of those people are just chaff. I am sorry but I have to say the truth. Inferiority complex, lies, paranoia has destroyed the minds of this generation of Ibos

idupaul:


Lokmal from emzor is a 100 percent imported from China, look at the pack and you will see that , Emzor only cakes some of he drugs in Nigeria which means she imports the active and base ingredients a 100 percent and just cakes them into tablets .. please there is no anti malarial produced here

Please stop this nonsense. Licenses can be bought and factories set up for all pharmaceutical products. Stop confusing yourself with rubbish thinking. The measure is meant to suckling in investments in the sector and it will work..very fast

Adminisher:


Please stop this nonsense. Licenses can be bought and factories set up for all pharmaceutical products. Stop confusing yourself with rubbish thinking. The measure is meant to suckling in investments in the sector and it will work..very fast

Most of the anti malarials used in Nigeria are no longer any patent and are now available generics so dont need any licence to make them , the ish is most of the bases and active ingredients must be imported , This policy will only increase the prices of anti malarials and open a gate way for fakes to thrive like they did after Buharis first stint as president .. As we speak Evans who have made it a goal to manufacture most of their drugs in Nigeria have stopped since last year due to Buharis bad policies , are aware before he took over in 1984 many international pharmaceutical had factories here and his poor vision and policies chased all of them away, Do you know before he came in 1984 we mitchellin and dunlop had manufacturing plants here but his bad policies killed them all ..are you aware that Buhari is a killer of industrialization , please go and read your economic history

darknetcom:
you people are sooo negative...

all this bans and high tax is to encourage locals to do this things yourself...

why cant you people ever see that??...

Pls do tell what this govt has done to support local businesses? Where are the loan facilities? Has govt reduced tariffs on imported machineries and materials needed for manufacturing? Have tax breaks been given? Is FX available for purchase of products outside Nigeria? Bros, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING has been done.

idupaul:


Most of the anti malarials used in Nigeria are no longer any patent and are now available generics so dont need any licence to make them , the ish is most of the bases and active ingredients must be imported , This policy will only increase the prices of anti malarials and open a gate way for fakes to thrive like they did after Buharis first stint as president .. As we speak Evans who have made it a goal to manufacture most of their drugs in Nigeria have stopped since last year due to Buharis bad policies , are aware before he took over in 1984 many international pharmaceutical had factories here and his poor vision and policies chased all of them away, Do you know before he came in 1984 we mitchellin and dunlop had manufacturing plants here but his bad policies killed them all ..are you aware that Buhari is a killer of industrialization , please go and read your economic history

many black people dont see this...

that doesnt mean i completly agree wirh you..

i only care about security...anything else,i dont agree with you....

darknetcom:
you people are sooo negative...

all this bans and high tax is to encourage locals to do this things yourself...

why cant you people ever see that??...

They're something you don't ban easily and drug is one of them.

asuustrike2009:


They're something you don't ban easily and drug is one of them.

ohhhh...drugs you can easily ban..

i dont agree with you about that...

we kept ebola in check without the help of others....

darknetcom:



ohhhh...drugs you can easily ban..

i dont agree with you about that...

we kept ebola in check without the help of of others....

Dey there dey talk.how many drugs are made in Nigeria?
Na poor man pikin dey suffer pass

GabdelandAgro:
I dont blame u, I blame ur dad for not using Condom on ur mum

yeah you are right, the son of a silly mad woman

idupaul:


Most of the anti malarials used in Nigeria are no longer any patent and are now available generics so dont need any licence to make them , the ish is most of the bases and active ingredients must be imported , This policy will only increase the prices of anti malarials and open a gate way for fakes to thrive like they did after Buharis first stint as president .. As we speak Evans who have made it a goal to manufacture most of their drugs in Nigeria have stopped since last year due to Buharis bad policies , are aware before he took over in 1984 many international pharmaceutical had factories here and his poor vision and policies chased all of them away, Do you know before he came in 1984 we mitchellin and dunlop had manufacturing plants here but his bad policies killed them all ..are you aware that Buhari is a killer of industrialization , please go and read your economic history

That is very dishonest.

Michellin and Dunlop were still producing in Nigeria as at year 2002. If they failed 20years after Buhari why do you ascribe their failure to his 1984 administration?

Strangely now he is looking to promote local manufacturing by keeping custom duty for industrial equipment at 5% you still attack him with such dubious vigor.

You need to manage your hatred for this man before you lose all credibility.

Hmmmm,

Everyone on this forum can afford malaria medicine at its current price, and will be able to even if the price is hiked by 50%.

Now, there are thousands-millions-who can't afford it even at present price. Doesn't it sound scary to hear multitudes dying of malaria?

Having read the objective posts, I do feel that we need to start to limit importation of drugs. But it can't be done overnight. Such high consequence policies need to be phased in, not begun abruptly.

Lastly, people we really need to focus on issues and not paint everything with tribal, personal and party sentiments.

GabdelandAgro:
When Countries are trying to see how to make
antimalaria drugs free in order to control the
malaria epidermic that kills tens of millions
yearly, Buhari increase tariff/tax on Anti-
malaria and Antibiotics to make them
expensive to get but will himself go abroad to
treat headache and ear infection.. What a
Devil we regretably voted for.

For your information there is no single
antimalaria product produced here in Nigeria , even your cheap chloroquine tablets are imported as powders and only caked into tablets here


https://thewhistler.ng/story/tougher-days-ahead-for-nigerians-as-fg-hikes-tariffs-on-foods-medicines

Anti malarial and Anti biotics are manufactured locally, the import duty for their concentrate was reduced from 10% to 5% , what is wrong in protecting local manufacturing in an economy that is experiencing forex pressures? are you sure you have common sense?

idupaul:


Most of the anti malarials used in Nigeria are no longer any patent and are now available generics so dont need any licence to make them , the ish is most of the bases and active ingredients must be imported , This policy will only increase the prices of anti malarials and open a gate way for fakes to thrive like they did after Buharis first stint as president .. As we speak Evans who have made it a goal to manufacture most of their drugs in Nigeria have stopped since last year due to Buharis bad policies , are aware before he took over in 1984 many international pharmaceutical had factories here and his poor vision and policies chased all of them away, Do you know before he came in 1984 we mitchellin and dunlop had manufacturing plants here but his bad policies killed them all ..are you aware that Buhari is a killer of industrialization , please go and read your economic history

The tarrif for concentrate was reduced from 10% to 5%

ocelot2006:


Pls do tell what this govt has done to support local businesses? Where are the lone facilities? Has govt lessoned tariffs on imported machineries and materials needed for manufacturing? Have tax breaks been given? Is FX available for purchase of products outside Nigeria? Bros, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING has been done.

Machineries and heavy duty equipments are duty free with the new policy, how did you see the drug policy but didn't see the later?

DelGardo:


That is very dishonest.

Michellin and Dunlop were still producing in Nigeria as at year 2002. If they failed 20years after Buhari why do you ascribe their failure to his 1984 administration?

Strangely now he is looking to promote local manufacturing by keeping custom duty for industrial equipment at 5% you still attack him with such dubious vigor.

You need to manage your hatred for this man before you lose all credibility.

Industrial equipment is duty free not 5%

jpphilips:


The tarrif for concentrate was reduced from 10% to 5%

Yes just saw that today but noticed it was only paracetamol and chloroquine that was mentioned ..

Ipob youths are driven by HATE..

It's a waste of time engaging them intellectually.

idupaul:


Yes just saw that today but noticed it was only paracetamol and chloroquine that was mentioned ..

They intend to stimulate local manufacturing while discouraging import, good policy for our reserves.

People just come here and say absolute rubbish of what they have very little knowledge about. The one crying about the ban of anti-malarial have not even bother to visit any of the drug market and see so many rubbish from China and India they call anti-malarial. Apart from lokmal emzor also produce diasunate too which is for malaria. Love Buhari or hate him the ban is to encourage local production which every right thinking nigerian should applaud. Or do you want to criticize because you like criticism?

Garrithe1st:
Ipob youths are driven by HATE..

It's a waste of time engaging them intellectually.

Lol. Don't mind the escobars. The way that one ia dishing out wrong info gallantly to massage is useless points is what is amusing me. Unfortunately, I don't have time for useless arguments with an escobar who is hateful by default!