Felix Nwafor

About

I have over 10 years experience in sourcing, processing and supply of botanical ingredients to laboratories, companies and individuals through my company @Filixmas Botanicals Ltd. Contact us for your herbal ingredients and medicinal oils for drugs, teas, supplements and cosmetics. Our major products are kolanuts (Cola acuminata, Cola nitida etc.), Garcinia kola, Fadogia agrestis, Hibiscus sabdariffa, Mondia whitei, Alchornea cordifolia, Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit), Picralima nitida, Sida acuta, Rauvolfia vomitoria, Aframomum melegueta, bamboo, Sida acuta, bitter leaf (vernonia) among so many others

Experience

• University of Nigeria, Nsukka (10 yrs 4 mos)
  • Lecturer
    Apr 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

  • Web Content Manager
    Feb 2018 - Jun 2023 · 5 yrs 5 mos

• FILIXMAS BOTANICALS LTD ()
  • CEO
    Feb 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 6 mos

  • CEO/Founder
    Sep 2015 - Jun 2023 · 7 yrs 10 mos

    Identification and Collection of African Medicinal Plants Import and Export of Plant Raw Materials Supplies Natural Products Ethnomedicinal Surveys Herbal Recipes/Healing Consulting

• Higher Technical Officer (Taxonomist/Curator) at Department of Pharmacognosy and Environmental Medicine, University of Nigeria.
  Apr 2016 - Jun 2023 · 7 yrs 3 mos

  Plant Identification and Collection Ethnomedicinal Research Bioprospecting Teaching/Demonstrations Herbarium Techniques Flora Phytophotography Databases

• Taxonomist and Raw Materials/Processing Officer at The International Centre for Ethnomedicine and Drug Development
  May 2014 - Aug 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

  1. Collection of plant samples 2. Identification of plants 3. Ethnobotanical surveys 4. Scientific writings and reports 5. Acquisition and processing of plant raw materials 6. Delivery of lectures

• Trainee Taxonomist at International Centre for Ethnomedicine and Drug Development (InterCEDD)
  Jan 2013 - Apr 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

  1. collection of plant samples 2. Herbarium specimens 3. Pressing and preservation of specimens