We have no laboratory to sample products, Customs boss tells Senate
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By Henry Umoru
THE Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Colonel Hameed Ali (retd), has told the Senate that the service does not have a single laboratory to carry out sample tests of products.
Disclosing this when he appeared before the Senator Francis Alimikhena (APC, Edo North)-led Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, the comptroller general, who was represented by the Acting Comptroller (Tariff) Suleiman Chiroma, said that with the absence of laboratory to effectively carry out its jobs, the Customs, at different times, hired the services of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON; the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, and the University of Lagos.
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This was announced in a statement by Folashade Ambrose-Medebem, Lafarge’s director of communications, public affairs and sustainable development, on Wednesday.
MANCAP certification is to ensure that all locally manufactured products in the country conform to the relevant Nigerian industrial standards (NIS) before such products are presented for sale in the market or exported.
Lafarge said a major benefit of the SON certificates is hitch-free exportations to other countries, mostly in Africa.
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According to the statement, the presentation came after products from the company’s Mfamosing plant satisfactorily met confirmatory and standardization requirements set by SON.
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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Thursday sealed a plaza at the Auto Spare Parts and Machineries Dealers Association (ASPAMDA) market, Lagos Trade Fair Complex, over adulteration of established lubricants.
SON said that the move was to guard against prevalence of motor accidents and machine breakdown, particularly during the Yuletide resulting from the use of the adulterated lubricants.
Issa Sulaimon, SON Coordinator, Surveillance, Intelligence and Monitoring (SIM) Unit, during the exercise, stressed the Standards body’s commitment to the production of quality locally manufactured lubricants.
He said that other locations where adulterated lubricants were being carried out would be fished out and duly addressed.
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We have no Laboratory to carry out Sample tests, Customs tells Senate
On
By Henry Umoru
THE Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, retd has told the Senate that the Service does not have a single laboratory to carry out Sample tests of products.
Disclosing this when he appeared before the Senator Francis Alimikhena, All Progressives Congress, APC, Edo North led Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, the Comptroller General of NCS who was represented by the Acting Comptroller ( Tariff) Suleiman Chiroma said that with the absence of laboratory to effectively carry out its jobs, the Service at different times, hired the services of Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON; the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC and the University of Lagos.