Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON)
Although the Federal Government’s decision to evict the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) from the seaports, in 2012 negates SON 2015 Act, it was accepted because of the need to streamline the vetting process of imported goods through the ports and improve the easy of doing business in the country.
However, recent developments have shown that the laudable move puts Nigerians at the receiving end of sub standard imports, which leads to loss of lives and properties worth several millions.
The enormity of the loss could be seen in quantum of auto crashes, collapsed buildings and fire outbreaks in public buildings, leaving trails of sorrows from deaths to destruction of valuables.
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Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has made seizures of substandard tyres worth N600 million, just as it lamented its absence at the nation’s ports.
Speaking at an enforcement exercise carried out at a warehouse along Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Director General, SON, Mallam Farouk Salim, said that the tyres were stuffed in over 100 containers, which makes the thread lose integrity.
Salim said that the tyres has no economic value and are like time bombs waiting to explode, maintaining that SON will stop at nothing to ensure that substandard tyres do not find their ways into the hands of unsuspecting consumers in the country.
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Chief Dr. Samuel Ioraer Ortom, industrialist, farmer, businessman, politician, philanthropist, administrator and employer, was born on 23rd April, 1961 in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
He was enrolled into the St. John’s Primary School, Gboko in 1970 but moved to St. Catherine’s Primary School, Makurdi in 1974 where he completed primary education in 1976.
Chief Dr. Ortom was admitted into Idah Secondary Commercial College, Idah in Kogi State in 1976. He did two years in the school before his father’s retirement in 1979 brought an abrupt end to his dream of completing formal secondary school education on account of inability to pay school fees. Shortly before this happened, he had given his life to Jesus Christ.