Osita Aboloma, the Director-General of Standard Organisation of Nigeria, says the rejection of Nigerian farm produce abroad remains a major challenge and efforts must be made to check this in order to boost the diversification initiative.
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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria said on Wednesday that it confiscated fake and substandard products worth more than N300 billion across the country within the past few months.
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria says it will reduce the importation of substandard products by 75 per cent by 2019, if permitted to stay in the ports.
The Director-General, Standard Organisation of Nigeria, Osita Aboloma, has appealed to importers and their representatives to desist from falsification of documents.
The NIA raised the alarm in a document it prepared on October 12, 2018 and sent to the country’s National Security Adviser, Nigeria Customs Services, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Standards Organisation of Nigeria and National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria has sealed 20 business outfits in Ekiti for offenses ranging from poor quality products.
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria on Wednesday urged the Association of Table Water Producers to ensure strict compliance with the Nigerian Industrial Standards to eradicate waterborne diseases.
No fewer than 26 shops found stocking items suspected to be substandard were on Wednesday sealed in Zaria, Kaduna State by enforcement teams of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria drafted from its Kaduna head office.
To this end, a statement issued by the office of the Director-General of SON, Osita Aboloma, in Abuja on Tuesday said some redeployment were carried out at the directorate cadre.
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has commenced an aggressive evacuation of unfortified food products across the country.
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria says about 64 per cent of lubricants imported into the Nigerian markets are below the approved standards.
Badewole Sunday, the state coordinator of SON, said this at a sensitisation programme organised for the traders in Minna on Tuesday.
Badawale Sunday, the SON Coordinator in the state, made this known during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna.
The SON Coordinator in the state, Badawale Sunday, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna that the surveillance exercises carried out indicated that many of the outlets were yet to imbibe good hygienic practices.
Senator Sam Egwu, chairman of the committee made the call on Monday, during an oversight function to SON’s offices and laboratories in Lagos.
The organisation made the call when it met with the stakeholders at a forum in Lagos, tagged “The Role of Standards and Quality Regulation in Electronic Commerce’’.
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria said this in a statement posted on its website, a copy of which was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
Osita Aboloma, Director-General, SON, made the remark in Minna, Niger while inaugurating a one-day workshop for dealers/marketers of electronic and allied products.
Its Director-General, Osita Aboloma, made the promise at a one-day capacity building programme on welding practice, procedure and quality assurance in Kaduna.
Danlami said: “In 2017 Kaduna state has seen bumper harvest of companies and factories that emerged, ranging from small, medium and large scale factories including multinational companies.