SON inaugurates national metrology institute

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has opened the National Metrology Institute (NNMI) to boost export base by providing the required confidence and reliability in export goods.

To ensure accuracy in measurements in the country,  SON had set in motion the establishment of  NMI which would be the custodian  of National Measurement Standard with the highest  measurement reference in the country through traceability to the International System of Units.

SON’s Director-General, Dr. Joseph Odumodu, said the NMI would be responsible for carrying out measurement standards and providing traceability and accuracy of measurement to industries,  laboratories,  trade and commerce,  aviation,  oil and gas, agriculture,  health,  education,  automotive, mining,  power and other sectors of the economy.

Odumodu, who spoke in Enugu during the ground breaking of NNMI,  said, SON has delivered on its promise of quality of life from 45 per cent to 85 per cent.

He said in Nigeria there were few cases of housing collapse,  since the sensitisation of Nigerians on buying the right cement products.

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