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By Agbo-Paul Augustine Mohammed Attah is the National Coordinator of Standards Awareness Group and member, National Technical Committee on Standards in Nigeria which is in the process of raising five million voices against sub-standard products in Nigeria. He bares his mind to AGBO-PAUL AUGUSTINE on the crisis of cement grading and building collapse in Nigeria. Can you give us the background to the current cement crisis in the country? Many Nigerians are out of the box largely due to the inability of the regulators and manufacturers to come to terms over a period of time and advised Nigerians adequately on the usage of cement. The issue actually started when Nigeria was recording high number of building collapses. We had the highest number then in Lagos followed by Port Harcourt and Abuja. Stakeholders largely consumers were affected and they rose-up from a meeting with a formal protest to the regulator which is Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) that something need to be done u

- It is a timely visit, FERMA Chairman. - Politicians made false claims, findings revealed. By Ismail M. Kabir Dr. Adeiza delivering his remark The Ebira Peoples’ Association (EPA) has led a delegation to the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) over the sorry state of the Okene-Lokoja highway. The visit, led by Dr. Abdulrahman Adeiza, the National President of EPA took place today, Wednesday October 28 th , 2014 at the headquarter of the road maintenance agency in Wuse II, Abuja with a view to drawing the attention of the agency to the socio-economic challenges posed to the nation by the incessant traffic jam caused by the damaged section of the road especially as the yuletide period approaches. The chairman of FERMA, Engr. Jide Adeniyi while receiving the delegation in his office thanked EPA for rising up to the challenge, describing the gesture as patriotic. Dr. Adeiza highlighted the hardship faced by members of the community since the traffic gridlo