₦airaland Forum

kayce911: Chidi; son, why are you not going to school today?

Son; I am having pains just like you are having too.

Chidi; what is the problem again?

Son ; there was serious fight yesterday in our class as some of my classmate tried to remove our class rep so I have to use a plank on some of them in the process I was seriously beaten by them.

Chidi; why do you have to do that nau?

Son; but Dad I just watched you online now where you were planking your colleague with the House maze as if he was a goat. That's one of the things I learnt from you now.

Chidi; how do you mean?

Son; that I have to go to a hospital and lie down and also pretend that I was beaten like you did yesterday even when the video speaks for itself.

Chidi; you mean its online?

Son; that its online is understatement even the deaf and blind watched it.

Chidi; is your own online too.

Son; Dad you have to find out yourself or you ask you pay master Gov Amaechi to come to my school too to quiet the situation like he did in your case

kayce911: Chidi; son, why are you not going to school today?

Son; I am having pains just like you are having too.

Chidi; what is the problem again?

Son ; there was serious fight yesterday in our class as some of my classmate tried to remove our class rep so I have to use a plank on some of them in the process I was seriously beaten by them.

Chidi; why do you have to do that nau?

Son; but Dad I just watched you online now where you were planking your colleague with the House maze as if he was a goat. That's one of the things I learnt from you now.

Chidi; how do you mean?

Son; that I have to go to a hospital and lie down and also pretend that I was beaten like you did yesterday even when the video speaks for itself.

Chidi; you mean its online?

Son; that its online is understatement even the deaf and blind watched it.

Chidi; is your own online too.

Son; Dad you have to find out yourself or you ask you pay master Gov Amaechi to come to my school too to quiet the situation like he did in your case

Sincere 9gerian: In spite of the apathy of Nigerian consumers to locally made products and services and their preference for imported goods, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has disclosed that only five percent of locally manufactured goods do not meet the required standards and specifications at a period when the Nigerian market is replete with sub-standard products, mostly imported ones.

The position of the standard regulatory body tallies with the mood of economic affairs commentators who warned that the rising appetite of Nigerians for imported products would not only erode the nation’s foreign exchange earnings, but will also aggravate the difficulty being faced by local manufacturers as far as the operating environment is concerned.

Responding to the long-held belief that imported products were far better than those produced locally, Director-General of SON Joseph Odumodu put the degree of compliance with standards by local manufacturers at 95 percent, explaining that few instances of non-compliance were traced to mistakes and not necessarily deliberate attempts to shortchange the consumers.

He said: “When we did a survey on the quality of products in Nigeria; we found out that only five percent of products made in Nigeria did not meet specifications.
Most of the statistics of sub-standard products were contributed by imported products. We discovered that the five percent mark was not a result of deliberate adulteration. Some of them were as a result of mistakes in the manufacturing process, which you can control over time.”

Explaining why despite the degree of compliance with standards, Nigerian manufactured goods do not command patronage abroad,the SON boss said Made-in-Nigeria goods lack accreditation, which is a requirement in many countries.

“One, there is the issue of lack of accreditation in Nigeria but more importantlyalso there is the issue of infrastructure in Nigeria. The issue of power, roads and others. Nigeria, at the last count is about 40 percent at a disadvantage. I’m actually quoting the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria’s numbers, which says that if you want to manufacture a product in Nigeria and manufacture the same products in places like India, the cost in Nigeria will be about 50 percent higher. So how are you going to compete in international market when you have, one, a higher cost structure, and at the end of the day, those people also enjoy export incentives?

This is what gave rise to dumping and it is an issue from countries to countries and at the end of the day, how can a Nigerian manufacturer compete in international market?

That’s where the dilemma is and that is why we are working hard to ensure things are done well. Even the presidentis focusing on power and by the end of this year; we are looking at 10,000 megawatts that clearly will ensure that industry develops,” he said

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/only-5-percent-of-locally-manufactured-goods-failed-to-meet-required-standards/138993/

Supa6ix: mayb d boy iz a GENIUS

FXKing2012: And how did u come about the figure 7?

Onyinyechimara: From 7 years