Lagos, Nov. 29, 2022 – The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, will be the Special Guest of Honour at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Dec. 6, 2022.
He will be supported by eminent personalities like captains of Industry, heads of ministries, departments and agencies, international development and technical partners as well as operators in business, commerce and industry.
A statement by Mrs Foluso Bolaji, the Director of Public Relations in SON, said the company’s Golden Jubilee ceremony would hold at Oriental Hotels, Lekki Road, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Tuesday, Dec.6, 2022.
“It promises to be a ground-breaking event which would showcase some of the major engagements and interventions by the agency towards ensuring Nigeria’s industrial and economic growth, particularly in recent times under the current watch of the SON Director General/ Chief Executive, Mallam Farouk A. Salim.
“Indeed, the Director General has expressed his delight that SON is attaining this milestone during his tenure, re-assuring stakeholders, operators as well as consumers of the agency’s determination to ensure business and industrial growth as well as consumer safety and protection,” the statement said.
The fulcrum of standardisation and regulation of quality of all products in Nigeria is vested in the Standards Organisation of Nigeria.
Established by Act No. 56 of 1971, as amended by Act No. 14 of 2015, SON has the sole responsibility for National Policy on Standards, Standards Elaboration and Specifications, Quality Assurance and Control on manufactured industrial and imported products and services.
The agency has since been empowered by its current Act with more powers to check the production, importation, circulation and sale of sub-standard products across the country.
SON is a parastatal agency of the Federal Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment (FMITI). (GBN)
