AN INTRODUCTORY POST : I'm Richard

I am Richard Remy Andem, a New Product Development Officer by profession at Drugfield Pharmaceuticals Limited, Sango-Otta, Ogun State. I hold a Bachelor of science degree in Biochemistry and a professional diploma in Health, Safety and Environment from the University of Uyo and Environment and Safety Management Institute (ESMI) respectively.

Being in a multi-dosage drug manufacturing company has been a blessing, expository and remarkable experience by God's grace. Drugfield Pharmaceuticals happens to be a place of my primary assignment (PPA) during the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Programme in 2019 where I got retained as the foremost personnel to undertake and oversee the developmental projects of all new and reformation designs of already-existing drug formulations. A rare privilege that I am most grateful to God for and the NYSC scheme!

As the popular saying goes, health is wealth. It has been an amazing opportunity contributing my quota of intellect, skills and energy towards the effective production and distribution of drugs for the well-being of mankind. Drug manufacturing is a promising and delicate area of expertise that requires maximum attention, accuracy and carefulness as it has to do with life.

This is why in the production of new formulations, we start with a desk research of the drug formulation, the API-excipients compatibility and optimization studies before proceeding to trial batch preparations to undergo in-house quality operations laboratory analyses, stability studies etc before the pilot batch preparation to be sent to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) for registration, subsequent analyses and final approval or recommendatory adjustments for commercial batch manufacturing.

Interestingly, it is worth mentioning that I have successfully added twenty-seven (27) new products with the help of our team to the company's wealth of over a hundred and fifty (150) products which is still counting.

This area of interest has led me into scouting for innovative scholarship opportunities and partaking in healthcare programmes like volunteering to be better suited for discharging my responsibilities. In the light of this quest, I have a "Community Immunity Ambassador" award of the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates in a program tagged "Let's Break the Chain in Covid-19 Infection" during the heat of the pandemic in 2020.

As an individual away from the professional discipline, I am an ambitious adept very passionate about the words, Change and Skillset.

No wonder I ventured into Information marketing on whose quality content writing on global changes and innovative skillsets have become my strength and most promising tool of reaching out to many people from far and beyond. This led me again into enrolling at the University of Leeds and Institute of Coding, United Kingdom during the Covid-19 pandemic where I bagged a certificate in "How To Create Great Online Content"

Partaking at the Covenant University, Ota Technology Expo2020 on "The Future of Education and How Talents will be Developed via Technology Post Covid-19 and the HeadStart Africa Summit tagged "Reinventing Yourself for the New Economy" before birthing my platform's footprint "Xpress Educational Consult" flagship on Facebook.

A platform utilizing /richard andem/ profile on Facebook and culminates my motivational and mind-expository posts cutting across mindset and academic developments, financial management, smart savings, investment, skills monetisation

And of course innovative painting because I paint and also make innovative paints. Lolz, I'm smiling now.

My knowledge and information are mostly handed down via regular posts on my Facebook profile, periodic masterclasses on WhatsApp and in the compilation of e-books of which Smart Savings happens to be my first digital products though "Making Innovative Paints" and few are under print.

The Smart Savings e-book is a brainchild of my undiluted expression and burning desire to help youths live at the peak of their life's goals by recognizing, leveraging and building on online opportunities to fund their dreams rather than waiting endlessly for the government as I uphold the strong tenet as one of my life's beliefs that "skill acquisition is a noble boost to a holistic and transformative educational process, and not merely the accumulation of certificates through school".

I'm indeed very pleased being a part of this platform and I hope to get the best writing and learning journey here and most importantly a blissful plethora of supports, guidance and help from the beautiful connections of people in the Blurt Africa World.

Thank you very much in esteem anticipation of the undiluted love.

Truly "Xpress Educational Consult"
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