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Importers Flooding Nigeria With Substandard Goods, SON Alerts

The Director-General of Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Dr Paul Angya, has alerted the federal government of massive importation of substandard goods into the country. This, he said, has forced the SON to shutdown the Electronic Provisional Clearance Certificate (ePCC) platform after the 90 days...

Why Substandard Goods Penetrate Nigerian Ports – SON DG

The Acting Director General/Chief Executive of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Dr. Paul Angya, has identified SON’s absence at Nigerian ports as a major factor contributing to the ease with which substandard goods enter Nigerian markets. Dr. Angya also said acute shortage of manpower...

SON Seeks Customs’ Support Against Inferior Products

THE Standard Organisation of Nigeria has solicited the collaboration of the Nigeria Customs Service to check the influx of sub-standard products in Cross River State. The Head of SON, Cross River State office, Mr. Udeme Udom, made this known in Calabar when he paid a...

Nigeria’s steel market faces Glut

As the glut in global steel production heightened, with many steel industrial firms shutting down, local steel manufacturers may have begun to feel the pangs of the glut as capacity utilisation drops below 50 per cent sequel to low demand. Coordinator, Steel Manufacturers Association of...