The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has called on stakeholders to ensure Nigeria keys into the global vision of achieving international standards on its products and services.

The Director General/Chief Executive Officer, SON, Ifeanyi Okeke, made the call, yesterday, during a walk by the organisation in Lagos, to mark World Standard Day, with the theme: “Shared vision for a better world.”

Okeke, represented by SON’s Director, Human Resources Management, Timothy Abner, said the theme cuts across all countries, and is a clear vision to achieving better standards.

“The world is moving towards having common activities and products, which is why countries are sharing a vision to make sure that the same standard exists wherever in the world.

“Goods move from one country to another and there are international standards to ensure that such goods are accepted wherever they go. In Nigeria, we are working to key into this vision by ensure we have standards for everything,” he stated.

The SON boss warned that if Nigeria does not move along with the rest of the world, its economy will face some challenges, especially as other countries will key into these standards to flood Nigeria with their goods.

He said that achieving standard is essential for Nigeria, adding that everyone must share the same vision of ensuring international standards.

The Director of Standards, SON, Yahaya Bukar, said that the walk is to unite and fight the menace of substandard products flooding the markets, which results in unproductiveness and loss of money.

He said that SON is carrying all stakeholders along to understand the advantage of standards and its implementation to the people and the country.

He said that SON inspects factories daily to ensure standard and sensitise the people about the importance of maintaining standard.

Bukar noted that those who do not comply with standards are prosecuted as all the products manufactured in Nigeria are expected to comply with the requirement of the mandatory conformity assessment programme.

Also, the Director of Laboratory Services, SON, Richard Adewunmi, said that every product must go through conformity assessment.

He said this is very critical in decision making to certify that the products conform to standards.