Farouk Salim has taken over at the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) as the new Director-General/Chief Executive, from the erstwhile head, Osita Aboloma.
At the ceremony, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, presented a formal letter of commendation and appreciation to Aboloma for his services to the nation through SON.
Salim promised to bring changes by promoting public safety, the role of standards in local manufacturing, import and export as well as creating an enabling environment for innovations that will stimulate national self-sufficiency.
“We would also leverage on information and communication technology to disseminate our activities more efficiently, real time, in order to engender greater stakeholders’ buy-in and revamp public confidence in our organization.”
The outgone DG, Osita Aboloma assured Salim of bequeathing to him a crop of competent staff in virtually all fields of standardisation.