By Victor Ogunje
The federal government has disclosed that Nigeria has lost thousands of its citizens to substandard products, saying the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has been empowered to arrest, confiscate and prosecute any person with substandard products.
The apex government, therefore, urged the SON, Nigeria’s sole statutory body vested with the responsibility of standardising and regulating the quality of all products, to work out strategies that will rid Nigeria of counterfeit goods.
The Minister of Industry, Trade & Investments, Chief Niyi Adebayo expressed this concern at the inauguration of the new SON office in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital Friday.
Substandard products killing many Nigerians — Minister
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FG commissions SON zonal office in Ekiti, vows to sustain clampdown on manufacturers of substandard products
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The Standards Organisastion of Nigeria (S0N) has said the agency’s ultra-modern laboratory located at Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos can now be used to test all required quality parameters of sandcrete blocks.
Disclosing the development after a successful testing demonstration exercise recently, SON Director in charge of Laboratory services, Bath Ugwu, appealed to operators, block moulders and other stakeholders to approach the Ogba cement laboratory to test and certify sandcrete blocks for quality buildings. x
Sandcrete blocks are among the major components of buildings. By deploying a compressive strength testing machine with a belt in the local requirements based on Nigerian Industrial Standards (NIS) 978-2017 samples are tested to determine sound and quality sandcrete blocks.