West Africa · Covidien (Medtronic)

Covidien Surgical Stapling Supplier in Nigeria

Endo GIA, EEA, GIA and TA staplers, reloads, and laparoscopic instruments

The lane

Covidien (Medtronic), delivered to Lagos.

NOVOSIC exports Covidien surgical stapling to Nigeria — Endo GIA Ultra handles with Tri-Staple reloads, EEA circular platforms, open GIA and TA linear staplers, and Surgiclip ligation appliers — supplied from the UAE into Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt.

Laparoscopic surgery in Nigeria is expanding fastest in the Lagos and Abuja private hospitals, and those units live or die on reload resupply. An Endo GIA programme stalls the day the purple reloads run out; our Dubai-to-Lagos air link exists to make sure that day never comes.

Shipping to Nigeria

How this lane runs.

This is an air-dominant lane: reloads and circular staplers are compact, expiry-dated, and worth far more per kilogram than sea freight saves, so the default routing is the direct Dubai–Lagos freighter — wheels down at Murtala Muhammed International eight hours after departure. Hospital groups planning a quarter ahead can take the sea option, CIF Apapa in fourteen to twenty days, with the consignment packed so that no case needs opening twice at inspection.

Sea / surface
Apapa and Tin Can Island (Lagos); Lekki Deep Sea Port — typically 14–20 days
Air
Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos (LOS) — 8 hours (direct Dubai–Lagos freighter and belly capacity)
Typical Incoterms on this lane
CIF Lagos (Apapa) · CFR Tin Can Island · DAP Lagos · FOB Jebel Ali
Regulatory context
Medical devices imported into Nigeria require NAFDAC product registration, which the local importer holds. NOVOSIC backs that process with the manufacturer paperwork — IFUs, CE certificates, and batch records — that NAFDAC dossiers and hospital receiving teams call for.

What Nigeria orders

Demand on the Nigeria Covidien stapler lane.

The Lagos private laparoscopic units buy Endo GIA 60 mm purple Tri-Staple reloads as their staple line, with 45 mm tan reloads for thinner tissue and a handle replenished only occasionally. Colorectal work at the federal centres adds EEA 28 mm and 31 mm circular staplers, while open GIA 60 and TA 60 platforms still carry the load in theatres yet to convert to minimally invasive technique. Surgiclip M and ML appliers round out most Nigerian order sheets. Because handles, reloads, and clips arrive as one consignment, the importer's NAFDAC-registered lines reconcile against a single document set.

Featured lines

Covidien Surgical Stapling available for Nigeria.

Every line below is quoted to your exact catalogue codes and consolidated with anything else you buy from us into one shipment.

Endo GIA Ultra Universal

Laparoscopic linear stapler platform with universal reload compatibility

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Endo GIA Reloads with Tri-Staple

30 / 45 / 60 mm reloads, graduated staple heights for variable tissue

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EEA Circular Staplers (DST Series)

End-to-end anastomosis staplers for colorectal, gastric, and bariatric work

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Signia Stapling System

Powered stapling with real-time tissue feedback — handle, adapters, reloads

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Premium Surgiclip Appliers

Open ligation clip appliers in titanium, multiple clip sizes

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Don't see the specific Covidien (Medtronic) code you need? We supply the complete range — send us the catalogue number with your destination and required Incoterm.

Why NOVOSIC for Nigeria

One desk for the whole order.

01

All three Lagos gateways quoted

CIF Apapa, CFR Tin Can Island, or routing via Lekki Deep Sea Port — we quote the gateway that suits your clearing agent, with DAP Lagos where you want a single delivered figure.

02

Mixed-brand consolidation for NAFDAC importers

Sutures, staplers, energy consumables, and ward volumes on one commercial invoice, with batch and expiry listed line by line — the format Nigerian registration holders reconcile against.

03

Air when dating matters

High-value, expiry-dated lines fly direct Dubai–Lagos in eight hours, so reloads and energy-device consumables reach Lagos and Abuja theatres without burning shelf life in transit.

Available for shipping worldwide

The Covidien Surgical Stapling range ships from the UAE to Nigeria and to destinations across Africa, the Middle East, CIS, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Incoterms supported: EXW, FOB, CIF, CFR, DDP, DAP.

Ready when you are

Tell us what you need. We'll respond within 24 hours.

Brand, product, quantity, destination — we'll come back with a competitive export quote from our Dubai desk.