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16 Oct 2023
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has linked the patronage of substandard building materials and poor structural design to building collapses in the country. Among SON’s findings are poor structural designs; quackery and unprofessionalism, inadequate soil testing, poor construction practices and procedures. It includes unapproved construction, wrong demolition process, lack of maintenance, negligence; use of…
29 Sep 2023
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), yesterday, officially presented the Quality Management Systems Certificate ISO 9001-2015 to Afrimedical Manufacturing and Supplies Limited.
20 Sep 2023
Director-General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Farouk Salim, has advised manufacturers to standardise their products and carry out necessary quality assurance procedures for the best quality to promote economic growth.
20 Sep 2023
Producers of agro-allied products in Nigeria have received the requisite skills and tools to enable them to compete with their counterparts all over the world.
26 Aug 2023
Stakeholders in the manufacturing and import sector in the southeast region on Thursday endorsed the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) electronic demand note and receipt payment for ease of doing business, saying it would promote transparency in service delivery.
8 Jun 2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it is partnering the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to develop standards that would make the nation's agricultural commodities more acceptable in the international market and generate foreign exchange (forex).
12 May 2023
Farouk Salim
26 Apr 2023
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) says it is continually committed to driving initiatives that will promote the development of Halal products standards in Nigeria.
21 Apr 2023
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has stated that plans are underway to introduce an initiative called the Product Authentication Mark (PAM) to checkmate the influx of substandard goods into the country.

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