Tag Archives: SON

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, has warned importers of school uniform materials into Nigeria about some cancer-causing substances found in some school uniform materials made by two China based companies. A statement issued by the Director-General of SON, Mr Osita Aboloma on Friday in Abuja, named the companies producing the materials as Sing Shun Fat School-Clothier Company and Zenith Uniform …

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Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) Director General Osita Aboloma has described the SON Act as “a revolutionary document”, which has assisted the organisation in delivering on its mandate of sanitising the country of unwholesome products. Aboloma stated this at a stakeholders’ sensitisation workshop on SON Act 2015 in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. According to him, within the last few …

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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has held a stakeholders’ Technical Committee Forum on the review of standard for Cement NIS 444-1-2014 with the theme: “Repositioning the Cement sub- sector”. The forum, which held in Lagos, comes four years after the Federal Government approved new cement standard for the producers, aimed at  reviewing the quality of the products. The grade-strengths …

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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) was today named by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) as this week’s inductee into its Freedom of Information (FOI) “Hall of Shame” for its failure to comply with the provisions of the FOI Act over the last six years and “carrying on as if the Law does not exist.” In a statement in Lagos announcing …

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The Consumer Rights Awareness Advancement & Advocacy Initiative (CRAAAI), a non-governmental, non-political consumer rights protection initiative in Nigeria has concluded plans to hold its National Consumer Summit and Awards on November 9, 2017. According to a release from CRAAAI signed by its Chairman, Mr Moses Igbrude” in furtherance of our core objectives, we would be hosting the second edition of the Annual …

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The Federal Road Safety Corps is to partner the Standards Organisation of Nigeria in Ondo State to get rid of fake and substandard tyres capable of causing road accidents. The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Vincent Jack, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the State Coordinator of SON, Paul Oke, in Akure. “We are in a critical time …

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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has uncovered over N8 billion worth of cloned cables at two residential buildings in the Ajangbadi area of Lagos. Its enforcement team uncovered the warehouses, where 20 different brands of cloned cables were kept. Made-in-Nigeria cables and other brands like NOCAN, Surecan, Necaco, Kablemex, Purecan and Nigertin, among others, were clonedin China. SON Director, …

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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), said on Monday it had seized no fewer than 213 substandard assorted toiletries in Kaduna in the first quarter of 2017. The state’s Coordinator of SON, Mr Danlami Datti, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna. Datti said SON’s objective was to promote the nation’s quality products …

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