Aboloma, who made the call at a one-day workshop organised for Association of Table Water Producers, Osun State Chapter on Friday in Osogbo, added that the call became imperative to avoid cholera and other water related diseases
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The SON Coordinator in Kebbi State, Alhaji Jibril Muhammad, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Birinin Kebbi on Monday.
Among the products burnt were fake and substandard tyres, expired cereals, expired snacks, detergents, soaps, wine, soft drinks and fruit juices.
The Head of Public Relations of Standards Organisation of Nigeria, Bola Fashina, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Saturday
According to him, the Act provides for every product imported into Nigeria to be registered with SON for traceability and confirmation of quality status.
The state Coordinator of SON, Paul Oke, who led the team that carried out the burning, said that the action was to display the readiness of the governments against substandard and fake goods.
The minister made this disclosure in a statement signed by Olukayode Oyeleye, Special Media and Communication in the ministry, in Abuja on Friday
The spokesman of the agency, Bisi Kazeem, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Friday that accredited vendors were in charge of sale and calibration of the device
Dr. Romanus Isife, Acting State Coordinator of SON in Anambra State, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Awka
Nakamura Hirotaka, JICA Chief Representative, made this known at stakeholders’ meeting on “Paddy Grading Standard”, organised by JICA in collaboration with other stakeholders in agriculture sector in Abuja on Friday
Elizabeth Ugoh, the Deputy Director, Water Quality Control and Sanitation, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, stated this in Abuja on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria
The state coordinator of SON, Sunday Badewole, told NAN during the exercise that his men had been on the trail of the producer of the substandard cements before his arrest along with others
Aboloma, represented by SON Head of Operations, Felix Nyado, said the National Assembly was working to make a law that would outlaw low quality and unsafe products in the water sector
Speaking shortly after the raid, Malam Adamu Abubakar, the State Coordinator of the organization, said the exercise was a directive from the headquarters of the organization in Abuja
The fire, which started few minutes to 2pm, affected the bungalow in the premises
The coordinator enumerated unwholesome practices perpetrated by the manufacturers to include non-perforation of tissue papers and use of low grammage paper with particles
The minister, however, charged the new appointees to ensure that their activities are geared towards the actualization of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda