{"id":192309,"date":"2025-02-26T15:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-son-spends-n15bn-on-facility-upgrade-to-enhance-standards-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T15:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:10:47","slug":"nigeria-son-spends-n15bn-on-facility-upgrade-to-enhance-standards-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-son-spends-n15bn-on-facility-upgrade-to-enhance-standards-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Son Spends N15bn On Facility Upgrade to Enhance Standards Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In a bid to enhance its capacity to enforce adherence to standard by manufacturers in Nigeria, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has spent about N15 billion on facility upgrade including the structure and equipment at its complex in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Director General of SON, Dr Ifeanyi Okeke, stated this when the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, John Enoh, paid a working visit to the SON laboratory complex at Ogba in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Okeke said the SON laboratory serves as the bedrock of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502260186.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to enhance its capacity to enforce adherence to standard by manufacturers in Nigeria, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has spent about N15 billion on facility upgrade including the structure and equipment at its complex in Lagos. Director General of SON, Dr Ifeanyi Okeke, stated this when the Minister of State for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10019,10152,9408,50729,257,4687,393,10619,254,9939,13841,12981],"class_list":["post-192309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-enforcement","tag-enhance","tag-facility","tag-n15bn","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-son","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spends","tag-standards","tag-upgrade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}