The Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (NIEEE) says Nigeria needs safer and standard products that will boost economic growth and development in the country.

The NIEEE President, Felix Olu, said this while speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of the 2025 World Standards Day on Monday in Osogbo.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event, organised by NIEEE to commemorate World Standards Day, has as theme “Shared Vision for a Better World”.

Olu reiterated the commitment of the association to safer, standard products to promote infrastructural development and growth in the country.

He said that due to the economic situation in the country, many people were now clamouring for cheaper, substandard products that was not in the interest of better services.

The NIEEE president said that there was a need for urgent support from key stakeholders towards ensuring that the country was free from unsafe products that could hinder development.

Olu also said the need for more advocacy to ensure standards and compliance with new standards among producers became paramount for safer products.

“We regulate ourselves to ensure that we observe good standards in what we practice as professionals so that if anything happens at the consumer end, we will not be blamed.

“This is the reason we have called this meeting to ensure we mobilise ourselves, sensitise ourselves, and ensure standards in all we do,” he said.

According to him, some products are already coming into the country, and if we do not have standards by which these products are customised to our environment, it will be a challenge to everyone.

“I want to urge delegates to interact and participate actively in discussions to have a fruitful commemoration of World Standards Day,” he added.

Also, Kings Adeyemi, the President of the Chartered Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers of Nigeria (CIEEEN), said every aspect of human life had to do with standards,

Adeyemi, the chairman of the occasion, however, said failure to reference those standards and update knowledge was worrisome.

“Innovation is moving fast, and the need to update knowledge to ensure standards of safer products will go a long way in promoting economic development and growth,” he said.

Adeyemi charged stakeholders on quality implementation, enforcement, and monitoring through regulations and policies that would ensure safer standards.

Earlier, Mr Anom Tendon, the state coordinator of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), said the organisation did not only monitor standards, but also enforces standards on products and services.

Tendon said SON would continue to save lives through standardisation of products to make consumers get value for whatever they purchased.

He explained that there are various schemes by SON to ensure that products purchased in the markets were standard quality.

“We have schemes to certify industries to ensure that the products they produce are standard.

“Whenever consumers buy any product, they should ensure they look for the NIS mark, which shows standard and SON approval,” he said.

Tendon, however, advised Nigerians to report any substandard products to any SON office, adding that thorough investigations would be carried out for a safer environment.