By Kingsley Adegboye

Pharma West Africa, an international trade exhibition dedicated to medicines will be launched March 20, 2024, at the Landmark Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The three-day conference billed to host more than 120 exhibitors and over 2,500 pharmaceutical professionals from around the world, will also provide learning opportunities to accredited exhibitors.
It was also gathered the conference running alongside the exhibition will be chaired by ex- chairman, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria and CEO/Founder of Pharmaplus Nigeria Ltd, Ahmed Yakasai.
Organiser, BtoB Events, which also produces Beauty West Africa, Food & Drink West Africa and the West African Automotive Show, said all is set to witness a memorable conference.
Narrating the idea behind the exhibition, Jamie Hill, a Chief Executive Officer BtoB Events, stated launching Pharma West Africa will boost the pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria.
“The idea is to bring together representatives from the entire pharmaceutical industry from across the globe to Nigeria under one roof for three days. Unlike a number of other exhibitions taking place shortly afterwards, ours is 100 percent focused on pharmaceuticals. We are not sharing our platform with other industries, such as laboratories or medical devices.
“We are proud to be hosting over 120 exhibitors at the exhibition this year and even prouder to say that a huge percentage of our exhibitors between 25 percent to 35 percent will be Nigerian companies. “This is in line with our focus as a business across our entire portfolio to support the major Nigeria brand and to support the Nigerian businesses as much as possible.
“We really have a global spread of exhibitors who represent thousands of different pharmaceutical brands.
“I think it’s important to be able to bring the number of international companies that we have to the shores of Nigeria for this exhibition to support local business in many ways, such as for distributors or retailers being able to find more cost-effective products.
“International manufacturers exhibiting here have also told us they want to explore contract manufacturing with local manufacturers to continue to boost the GDP of Nigeria moving forward”, Hill noted.