 The federal government has taxed the standards organization of Niger ESO and to remain committed to ensuring quality of all products and services in the country, so that the nation's manufacturing sector would not be a pushover in the African continent of free trade agreement scheme. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Utumbaniya Dibaya, who announced this in Lagos, stated that ESO had a vital role to play in facilitating trade and guaranteeing that excellence and quality standard is maintained in the face of the AFCFTA, Dibaya who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Evelyn Ngige, loaded the ESO in for 50 remarkable years of valuable contribution to industrialization. At the National President of the Manufacturers Association of Niger Men, Utumba Francis Mishoye said the role ESO plays in the nation's economy is very vital for the country's economic diversification drive. The Standards Organization of Nigeria has a vital role to play in facilitating trade and ensuring that local goods and services compete favorably in the international market by guaranteeing that excellence is maintained across all production lines in the country. This is even more important now that the Africa Continental Free Trade Area Agreement has opened up the domestic market to all commerce in the continent of Africa. Utumba was therefore speak to his role in maintaining standards to support industrial development, facilitate trade and promote investments in the Nigerian economy. Some should remain committed to ensuring quality and continuous improvement of all that is produced locally and imported from elsewhere. Over the years with ESO and working, it has come to look at what should be your standard when you produce products. For instance, what should be, what should you look like, what does it mean to really achieve to the consumer. So this is provided and as soon as done so much work in providing these standards, the trends during the standard when they are really instituting what standard should be, they cost to go to meetings, they have a spread, they do their research, and they have to reach in the laboratories and others and eventually they come up with the standard that is acceptable all over the world. Meanwhile, the Director General of the Standards Organization of Nigeria, Malam Farooq Salim, has asked captains of industry to invest substantially in brand protection activities to safeguard their intellectual property against counterfeiters, corporate pirates and producers of soap standard products. The ESO and BOS pledged that the standards body would also increase its level of campaign and engagement with the public to fish out and prosecute peddlers of soap standard goods in the nation. Manufacturers, our policies and programmes only work very hard to make their products excellent and sustainability. If you notice, most of our deers have been working with Sun for 20, 30 years, so that shows your longevity and the practicality of what we are doing and how useful our advice and working with us is that they should expect more transparency, more sensitisation, more knowledge of what we do and what products are good and what products are bad, more access to the organisation, more access to information that is very useful to the community and useful to the industry. So generally, the public should expect cooperation, protection from the organisation. The industry expect the same cooperation, work with us, we protect the industry, we work hard to make sure our industries and the products are acceptable everywhere around the world.