World New Cement standard: Court orders Aganga, SON to appear June 10 by Joseph Anthony June 5, 2014 written by Joseph Anthony June 5, 2014 221 The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, summoned the Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Segun Aganga and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, to appear on June 10 to show cause why they should not be restrained from enforcing a new cement standard in the country. The summon followed an ex-parte application filed before the court by Lafarge WAPCO Cement. Justice Ahmed Mohammed gave the order after he declined to grant the ex-parte application the plaintiff filed through its lawyer, Professor Taiwo Osipitan, SAN, on May 28. Osipitan had, while moving the application, yesterday, prayed the court to restrain the defendants from enforcing the new cement standard. It was the argument of the plaintiff that the defendants had no power to force it to manufacture according to the new standard which it said was illegally introduced without any regard to due process of the law. Osipitan insisted that the licence his client obtained for manufacturing of the former All Purpose 32.5 cement still had up till August 2016 before expiration. According to him, “There was no notice from SON to vary standard. All we had was a letter written on behalf of the Director-General (of SON) that they had set up a technical committee, and the next thing we heard was an advertisement. “The Larfarge WAPCO cement had been in use for 50 years. We still have till 2016, two years and two months, to continue to produce what we have been licensed to produce”, he added. Consequently, he urged the court to stop the two defendants from enforcing the provisions of sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the SON Act. 0 comments 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail Joseph Anthony previous post Jonathan presents N322bn NDDC budget proposal to Senate next post APC calls for Mbu’s dismissal over #Bringbackourgirls saga You may also like Artemis II Returns Safely After Historic Human Mission... April 11, 2026 UK Pauses Chagos Islands Deal Amid US Tensions... April 11, 2026 NASA Artemis II Heads to Moon as Orion... April 4, 2026 Pope Leo Visits Monaco and Urges Wealthy to... March 28, 2026 UK Sanctions Crypto Network Linked to Global Scam... March 26, 2026 UK Submarine Deployed to Arabian Sea: What It... March 22, 2026 UK and INTERPOL Launch Global Taskforce to Hunt... March 17, 2026 Pope Leo XIV Calls for Immediate Ceasefire as... March 16, 2026 Governments Worldwide Rush to Contain Fuel and Food... March 14, 2026 Why You Should Join the Chijos News WhatsApp... February 27, 2026 Leave a Comment Cancel Reply Type in the text displayed above
