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Towards curbing the sale and manufacture of substandard roofing sheets in the country, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has apprehended galvanized roofing sheets and aluminum coils worth about N500 million in Owerri and Okigwe, Imo State. The new wave of SON intervention is coming on the heels of complaints from property developers. In fact, homeowners have been facing herculean task ...

Abuja – President of the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), Mr Ali Rabiu, says the council has been empowered to tackle building collapses in the country with its just amended laws. Rabiu said this in Abuja on Monday at a news conference organised by the council on its forthcoming 28th COREN Engineering Assembly scheduled for Aug. 19 ...

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has engaged stakeholders in Kaduna on proper building measures to avert further building collapse. This is as a result of the recent cases of building collapse being witnessed in the country. Speaking at the sensitization programme organised by SON in collaboration with Leading Ideas International Limited, the Director-General, SON, Osita Aboloma assured Nigerians that ...

Another Ibadan building collapse: Eight people escaped death on Tuesday when a building collapsed at a construction site in Oyo State. The incident occurred on Eleyele Road beside the Polo Ground in Ibadan, the state capital. Although no death was recorded, some construction workers at the site were trapped under the rubble. Emergency workers were said to have rushed to ...

A 34-year-old unemployed man, Ikemefuna Anyaka, who allegedly set fire on his father’s property worth N10.8 million, on Wednesday appeared in an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State. Anyaka is facing a three-count charge bordering on willful damage and threat to life. The accused, however, pleaded guilty to the charges leveled against him. Following his guilty plea, the Chief Magistrate, ...

Fresh facts have emerged that the Presidency has waded into the dispute between the Raw Material, Research and Development Council (RMRDC) and Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) over the occupation of the office premises in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.The two agencies have been at loggerheads over the move by RMRDC to reclaim its premises. It was learnt that the Head of ...

Four-years after the Federal government approved new cement standard for the producers, the Technical Committee set by the Governing Board of the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) is again reviewing the quality of the products. The grade-strengths of cement production existing in Nigeria have been NlS 444-1, which was adopted as composition and conformity criteria for common cement in the ...

SON is threatening a clamp down on manufacturers of sub-standard building materials due to the fact that building collapses is going on the increase in Abuja The incidence of building collapse in Nigeria is now growing at an alarming rate, seemingly uncontrollable or beyond easy control. This in recent times has become a source of serious concern to all stake ...

Press release The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI), the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners and Lifemate Furniture Company, have endorsed the Lagos Housing Fair. By this, they have become the official partners of the fair. The specialized fair has attracted over 180, 000 persons since its debut in 2001. The fifteenth edition holds ...

Paints Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMA) has reiterated its call to the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to end substandard products in the industry. Smarting from the successful awareness from the “2013 Coatings Show”, organised by the Paints Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMA) that drew attention of stakeholders and governments to the issue of the environment, quality of some products ...