For north of ninety years, Alabukun Powder has kept up with its stand as perhaps of the most well known patent medication normally found in Nigerian homes, work environments, drug stores and road shops.
Its modest cost and speedy viability have held it back from tumbling off the slow down starting around 1918 when its equation was found by a splendid and dedicated Nigerian drug specialist, Jacob Shogboyega Odulate prevalently called ‘Favored Jacob’.
This helps one to remember another Nigerian item, St. Louis Sugar which has likewise turned into a commonly recognized name over many years of its presence. Both Alabukun Powder and St. Louis Sugar share something else practically speaking other than being around for a really long time, they are scarcely publicized in the media, yet they immovably held their ground in their separate business sectors.
Who was Jacob Odulate?
Jacob Shogboyega Odulate was brought into the world in 1884 to the polygamous group of Dad Odulate in Ikorodu, Lagos. Jacob Odulate quit tutoring early on of 12 and moved to Abeokuta, Ogun state, at 14 years old looking for greener fields.
As indicated by Stella O. Odesanya, his oldest enduring girl, Jacob went from Ikorodu, his old neighborhood, to Abeokuta by walking inside a time of 90 days. It was in Abeokuta that Jacob met a famous drug specialist, Specialist Sapara, and elected to turn into his disciple.
Jacob Odulate worked with Dr. Sapara for a really long time before he laid out his own medication fabricating organization which he named Alabukun. While battling to really establish himself and his organization, Jacob met a youthful pretty woman named Sekunmade whom he later wedded.
The development of Alabukun Powder.
It was a portentous day in the year 1918, four years after the mixture of the northern and southern protectorates, Jacob Odulate sat at his lab work area after lots of explores and fostered a recipe for a medication he called Alabukun Powder.
Jacob Odulate’s recipe was a blend of both local and unfamiliar meds which gave him an outcome so brilliant than he had anticipated. A parcel of Alabukun contains 760 mg of acetylsalicylic corrosive and 60 mg of caffeine making a sum of 820 mg.
It is utilized to treat a few ailments which incorporate headache, toothache, sore throat, counteraction of blood clumps, neuralgias, myocardial dead tissue, transluminal angioplasty and ischemic assaults. In any case, the powder drug isn’t to be utilized without a specialist’s remedy and like each and every other medication, Alabukun Powder has its secondary effects some of which are enlarging because of liquid gathering, asthma, heaving, queasiness and dizziness.
Alabukun Powder made a major wave when it hit the market in 1918, a period portrayed by imperialism which was then in numerous ways horrible to the locals of Nigeria. Alabukun Powder was traded to local nations, for example, Benin Republic, Togo, Cameroon and Ghana as its interest continued to take off higher. Till today, Alabukun Powder is traded far away to Brazil, Cuba and a few nations in Europe too.
Jacob’s medication fabricating organization has its central command situated in Sapon, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Different results of Alabukun brand are Alabukun Mentholine and a yearly diary called Alabukun Chronicle which was generally conveyed in Abeokuta and its environs somewhere in the range of 1920 and 1950.
Alabukun Powder wasn’t publicized in that frame of mind because of its prevalence at the time it made its presentation on the lookout and chiefly in light of its organization. By and by, Alabukun Powder stays one of the most established and generally involved patent meds in Nigeria and adjoining nations.
Jacob Shogboyega Odulate pseudonym Favored Jacob kicked the bucket in 1962 at Stream Emergency clinic, Onikan, Lagos and was made due by his significant other and kids.
