Pharmacists have hijacked the pharmaceutical Industry becos of their limited opportunities. The biochemist can also work in the agricultural sector. Dr Abel Ubeku, a biochemist, was the Managing Director of guiness Nigeria pls. A matallurgist, an Industrial chemist, was the Managing Director of Delta steel company, Alaja.

You can be whatever you want to be in life if you have a mission and vision. The hospital is not the only Place biochemistry graduate can work. Breweries, food Industry, cosmetic companies, agricultural sent, soap and detergent, academic, pharmaceutical companies (pharmacist in Nigeria has hijact this scholarship becos of their limited opportunities), etc, are just some the places a biochemistry graduate can work. I know a biochemist who is working in Chevron. I was with two engineers sometime ago and they were complaining that why should biochemist/chemist be getting the jobs in the oil companies than the engineers. I am an Industrial chemist, and I have worked in a power stations as power plant chemist. In the power (steam) plant, you cannot run the plant and generate electricity without the chemist. The chemist takes care of the cooling system, manage corrosion, treat the water that is needed to produce steam that turns the turbine that is coupled to the generator which produce the electricity. The lubricating oil, transformer oil are handled by the chemist. The environmental issues are handled by the chemist. Chemicals that the plant needs to operate are tested and received by the chemist. We have two main technical professionals in the power sector : The chemist and the engineers. Most of my colligues then have background in biochemistry. This is just one of the many areas where chemist can work. I left the electricity Industry voluntarily and moved to the UK as a highly skilled migrant, and I worked in different food companies and when I got tired of England, I returned to Nigeria. Today, I am a lecturer, and the Deputy Rector of my institution. I am an Industrial chemist.

Those that are badmouthing chemistry (wether biochemistry or Industrial chemistry), are very steep in ignorance. Chemistry is what feeds Nigeria: hydrocarbon or petroleum chemistry. From exploration to refinery and petrochemical. Without chemistry there won't be medicine, pharmacy, engineering, agriculture, etc. A Korean man has jettison chemical engineering for chemistry, becos according to him chemistry is more exciting. People have dumped medicine for history and literature, philosophy ( the great novelist, Achebe, and Prof. Kwame, a Ghanian philosopher). Both were given scholarship to study medicine, but later changed their mind to read history and literature, and philosophy. According to them, they found these courses more exciting. Chemists are great leaders: Nigeria late president Musa Yar'dua ; Angela Markel of Germany, and late Margerate Thatcher of Britain, were and are chemists. The development of the Haber process by the German physical chemist , Fritz Haber(Carl Bouch, a German chemical engineer scaled the process up by designing the chemical Plant - chemical engineering was invented by a professor of Industrial chemistry in MIT in the late ninteent century ). The Haber process revolutionised agriculture. The semicondictor Industry is chemistry ;nuclear and other steam power plants is chemistry; pharmaceutical Industry is chemistry ; food Industry is chemistry ;aerospace Industry is chemistry, inshort, everything is chemistry, no chemistry no life. The universe is made of matter, and whereever there is matter there is chemistry. You that is talking ill of chemistry is breathing becos you are powered by bio- chemistry. So , you that says it is a waiste of time, energy and money to study biochemistry and Industrial chemistry should have your brain thoroughly exermined

Those that are badmouthing chemistry (wether biochemistry or Industrial chemistry), are very steep in ignorance. Chemistry is what feeds Nigeria: hydrocarbon or petroleum chemistry. From exploration to refinery and petrochemical. Without chemistry there won't be medicine, pharmacy, engineering, agriculture, etc. A Korean man has jettison chemical engineering for chemistry, becos according to him chemistry is more exciting. People have dumped medicine for history and literature, philosophy ( the great novelist, Achebe, and Prof. Kwame, a Ghanian philosopher). Both were given scholarship to study medicine, but later changed their mind to read history and literature, and philosophy. According to them, they found these courses more exciting. Chemists are great leaders: Nigeria late president Musa Yar'dua ; Angela Markel of Germany, and late Margerate Thatcher of Britain, were and are chemists. The development of the Haber process by the German physical chemist , Fritz Haber(Carl Bouch, a German chemical engineer scaled the process up by designing the chemical Place - chemical engineering was invented by a professor of Industrial chemistry in MIT). The Haber process revolutionised agriculture. The semicondictor Industry is chemistry ;nuclear and other steam power plants is chemistry; pharmaceutical Industry is chemistry ; food Industry is chemistry ;aerospace Industry is chemistry, inshort, everything is chemistry, no chemistry no life. The universe is made of matter, and whereever there is matter there is chemistry. You that is talking ill of chemistry is breathing becos you are powered by bio- chemistry. So , you that says it is a waiste of time, energy and money to study biochemistry and Industrial chemistry should have your brain thoroughly exermined