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SON Tasks PH Tyre Dealers On Quality

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7 years ago

December 17, 2014

In a move to ensure proper
sensitisation of tyre dealers on quality of their products for safety and business promotion, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) Rivers State branch, has organised stakeholders forum for the Port Harcourt Tyre Dealer Association.
The seminar which drew a large crowd of stakeholders, took place at the Famous Ground Hotel, Mile 2, Diobu in Port Harcourt, recently.
In his address, the Rivers State Head of SON, Mr. Papanye Don-Pedro, stated that the seminar had become necessary to ensure good quality tyres and promote the dealers’ business. He commended the stakeholders for their cooperation with SON and noted that through the stakeholders engagement the tyre dealers would go back home better enriched with necessary awareness on their trade.
Don-Pedro assured that any dealer who dealt on quality products should not be afraid of the organisation’s enforcement exercise, which only targets substandard product for seizure.
The stateshead of SON explained that it was part of the body’s mandate to protect lives and promote business. But he noted that many times road accidents were caused by fake and substandard tyres, while acknowledging that the seminar was germane because of the approaching Yuletide, when many families are expected to undertake long journeys to different destinations across the country and beyond.
The Rivers SON boss cautioned the association to avoid patronising fake tyre distributors, even as he expressed the confidence that the seminar would among other benefits, help the traders to identify fake and substandard tyres.
Don-Pedro also informed that dealers willing to register with the organsiation for the purposes of importation of tyres into the country could do so by approaching the state branch of the organisation, assuring that they would be properly guided on what to do and bring direct benefits to their business. The SON official commended to tyre dealers association leaders for mobilising their members to attend the stakeholders forum in large number.
Also speaking chairman, Port Harcourt Tyres Dealers Association, Sir Eze. N. Okoye, commended SON for organising a stakeholders seminar for tyre dealers in Port Harcourt. He expressed the joy that the dealers were better informed now than before.
Eze Okoye pledged that the association would apply the knowledge acquired through the seminar in their dealings.
Earlier, the seminar presenter, Mr. Coldman Madu, who took stakeholders through series of awareness, from the paper by the Director General and Chief Executive of the SON Dr. Joseph Odumodu, enumerated the different types of tyres available, which include tubeless, tube, solid bullet proof and aircraft tyres. He went a step further listing tyre classification such as light truck tyres, commercial, all-terrain tyres, among others.
But he informed the dealers that they should expect safety, comfort, grip and ability to carry load in a tyre, adding that good thread, good casing, long supporting bead and leak proof remain qualities of good tyres.

Mildred Jaja

Business

Stakeholders Meet To Assess Nigeria’s Preparedness For AFCFTA

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8 hours ago

June 16, 2021

The Tide

Stakeholders are expected to converge in Lagos today to take a look at the Nigeria’s preparedness to maximize the gains of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
The Tide learnt that stakeholders will be converging at the instance of a popular online newspaper, Primetime Reporters, to assess the progress made so far by the Federal Government through the National Action Committee on AfCFTA agreement.
The event which is the Third Annual Lecture and Awards of the online medium has as its theme: “Assessing Nigeria’s Preparedness to Maximize the Gains of AfCFTA.”
The event will also witness conferment of awards on eight eminent Nigerians who have distinguished themselves in various fields of human endeavours.
The Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of Primetime Reporters, Mr. Saint Augustine Nwadinamuo, made this known in a statement made available to The Tide in Lagos on Monday.
According to him, the event will hold at the National Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos beginning from 10.00am.
Nwadinamuo said that the event would be chaired by a renowned legal practitioner, Barr. Osuala Emmanuel Nwagbara of the Maritime and Commercial Law Partners, Lagos, while the Director General, Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Dr. Muda Yusuf, would be the lead paper presenter.

By: Nkpemenyie Mcdominic, Lagos

Business

EFCC Nabs 419 Kingpin Over N250m Fraud

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10 hours ago

June 16, 2021

The Tide

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested a leader of a deadly 419 syndicate, Abayomi Kamaldeen Alaka (a.k.a Awise) over an alleged attempt to swindle an innocent Nigerian of N250 million.
The Tide learnt that the syndicate operates from a shrine at Ashipa Town, near Abeokuta, Ogun State.
According to a statement made available to The Tide in Lagos on Sunday, by the EFCC, Awise’s arrest followed a petition by his victim, Juliet Bright who lost N250m to the fraudster after she was tricked to provide money for sacrifices and invocations to heal her of an ailment.
The statement said Bright was introduced to Alaka by one Akinola Bukola Augustina (a.ka. Iya Osun) whom she met on Facebook in the course of her search for solutions to her health challenge.
What drew her to Augustina was the latter’s post under the name, Osunbukola Olamitutu Spriritual Healing Centre.
Once Bright contacted Augustina, the latter promised to heal her if she could pay N16 million.
The victim paid the money through an Access Bank account belonging to one Mohammed Sani, who later turned out to be a Bureau De Change Operator.
After paying the money without receiving healing, Augustina transferred the victim to other members of the syndicate, notably Awise.
Bright revealed that she met Awise at his shrine in Ashipa Town and was hypnotized and subsequently transferred various sum through bank accounts and in cash to the suspect and his syndicate members, until she lost N250 million to them.
Despite all the monies collected from her, her health conditions has never improved.

By: Nkpemenyie Mcdominic, Lagos

Business

Expert Wants Farmers To Grow Plant Produce For Export

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10 hours ago

June 16, 2021

The Tide

An expert in Quarantine Agriculture, Dr Vincent Ozuru, has advised Nigerian farmers to give more attention to growing plants produce that could be exported.
He said that plant like the hibiscus, popularly known as Zobo is on high demand in some countries around the world, today.
Ozuru who gave the advice while speaking to aviation correspondents at Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, noted that some plants produce, particularly hibiscus, had yielded huge revenue to the Federal Government through export.
According to him, Nigeria exported about 1,983 containers of hibiscus to Mexico alone in 2017 and earned $35 million within nine months of that year.
The agricultural quarantine expert explained that the export of the plant had a setback as a result of storage pest discovered by the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service in some consignments.
“The issue has now been taken care of and the export is resuming again, and all matters have been resolved with the stakeholders across the value chain.
“Mexico is the largest importer of Nigerian hibiscus, and our farmers should brace up to the challenge.
“The good news is that Nigeria has a vast growing belt in hibiscus, and the harvest is available all year round.
“We need to take advantage of this opportunity to earn foreign exchange for ourselves and for the country at large, even with the commitment of the present administration to diversify the economy”, he said.
Ozuru called on Nigerian farmers to show more commitment to the growing of export produce and also endeavor to get ready information on it in order to increase their income.

By: Corlins Walter