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  • SON sets May 21st deadline for E-Registration of goods in Nigeria’s market

    Effective from 21st of May, 2013 all products to be sold in any Nigerian market must be electronically registered with the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) or risk being confiscated and destroyed. This warning is coming on...

    • Posted February 26, 2013
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  • SON worried over importation of N1trillion fake products

    NIGERIANS spent over N1 trillion on the importation of fake and sub-standard products last year, the Director-General of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Joseph Odumodu has said. Odumodu disclosed this Thursday in an interview with the News...

    • Posted February 15, 2013
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  • Chinese Firm to Assist SON in Tackling the Menace of Fake Products

    In its quest to restore values and sanity to the importation of goods into the market in Nigeria, the Certification bearer the Standards Organization has received a major boost by entering into a strategic partnership with a...

    • Posted December 11, 2012
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  • Business Community Set for 2012 Quality Summit

    No matter how well a product is advertised and packaged, once the quality is poor it completely cancels out  the good intentions of the company that developed it. This therefore underscores the importance of Quality in ensuring valuable...

    • Posted December 3, 2012
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  • Standard Organisation gives 14 days ultimatum for Products Registration

    The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) gives an ultimatum of 14 days for importers and manufacturers of goods to register their products with the organisation, this exercise is in its pursuit of its zero tolerance policy on...

    • Posted November 2, 2011
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  • SON seizes containers of substandard second-hand cylinder

    Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) recently seized 4-feet container load of substandard second-hand cylinders. Mr Suleiman Isa,  Head of Enforcement, SON, disclosed in Lagos while showing journalists round some of the seized substandard items, including cylinders that...

    • Posted March 29, 2011
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  • Court adjourns trial of Chinese firm over alleged breach of contract

    A LAGOS State High Court has adjourned trial on the suit brought by an indigenous Nigerian company, Michonest Solutions International Limited against a Chinese firm, Gaoxinqi Nigeria Limited and a Chinese national, Mr. Frank Ysihai over supply...

    • Posted March 25, 2011
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