{"id":13842,"date":"2025-09-20T01:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edumarkng.com\/news\/standards-are-dead-nigeria-and-the-fakery-epidemic-by-ugoji-egbujo\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T01:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:24:43","slug":"standards-are-dead-nigeria-and-the-fakery-epidemic-by-ugoji-egbujo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edumarkng.com\/news\/standards-are-dead-nigeria-and-the-fakery-epidemic-by-ugoji-egbujo\/","title":{"rendered":"Standards are dead: Nigeria and the Fakery Epidemic, by Ugoji Egbujo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Standards are dead: Nigeria and the Fakery Epidemic, by Ugoji Egbujo, <\/p>\n

Good building materials are gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Everything is now fake\u2014almost\u00a0everything. The chronic decline took an acute turn after the COVID epidemic.\u00a0 A\u00a0 post-COVID nosedive. The naira started to plummet, prices soared. Surging costs of basic food began to drown the poor. People could no longer make it, so\u00a0 manufacturers started to fake it. Perhaps to stay alive. These days, almost nothing is solid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A 16mm steel rod now comes as 12mm\u2014thin and malnourished, with a fake ID. The old 12mm is the new 16mm. Everybody knows. Scavengers hover around demolished houses and concrete structures, stripping away the rods, which, though old and bruised, are more robust than today\u2019s mint steel rods. Everybody carries on like it doesn\u2019t matter. The structural liability imposed on new buildings can only be imagined. But who cares? In the markets, every 2\u00d72 wood is actually 1\u00d71. When they say the length of wood is 16 feet, they actually mean that it about\u00a0 12 feet long. In broad daylight, nobody thinks nobody is being shortchanged. <\/p>\n

The new standard is zero stabdards. And the Standards Organisation of Nigeria fools the country with one or two seizures a week while actually doing nothing to contest the degeneration. SON has mastered stage theater. The old 8mm rod has become the new 12mm, promoted by the market with the tacit approval of the regulatory\u00a0 authorities. Because in its 2023 report SON said 70% of imported steel failed basic tensile test. But 99% of steel shops are selling fake steel. All dimensions remarkably come with bogus labels. Everything now wears a babanriga. And poor SON manages the situation by choosing naive penny pinching dealers as ocassional scapegoats\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nobody cares about standards. This isn\u2019t just the matter of some guys manufacturing Hennessy XO within the premises of Ojo Military Barracks. No, that practice is so rife and dangerous\u2014as dangerous as those making drugs in garages all over the country. This breed of counterfeiters have existed since lord Lugard and have proliferate since lord Tinubu . As horrible as the activities of these imitators are, they are not the greatest threat consumers face. The most dangerous threats to consumers are not rogue distillers, bootleggers\u00a0 in Ihiala manufacturing Hennessy using old bottles and new labels. The real danger lies in licensed manufacturers or importers of ampicillin selling 100mg capsules as 500mg, selling\u00a0 pure placebos\u00a0 as antimalarials, or labeling 12mm steel rods as 16mm , selling them in broad daylight in otherwise legitimate outlets.<\/p>\n

This dilution of standards to make prices more affordable has been normalized. Because of this, half of the drugs in circulation are fake\u2014substandard, counterfeit. The real drugs are very expensive. With the gradual removal of the safety net of strict standardization, folks now import half chaff, half substance, ostensibly to help the poor. Most imported tomato pastes are fake\u2014they are less than 20% tomato, packed with starch and dye. Because at all at all na him be better. Only the very rich can afford the quality brands. All the other brands are at varying levels of substandardization. A 2024 provide by the Consumer Protection Council reveled that even the trusted brands of tomato were 60% starch and dye.\u00a0 \u00a0It appears poverty has made us accept fakery. They are the only thing we can afford\u2014the cheap fake foods and\u00a0 drugs. So people close their eyes and allow them to be sold and bought. Sometimes people just double the dosage, and that makes them feel prudent.<\/p>\n

As a country, we have come a long, long way down the path of self-deceit. Right now, we have taken a sharp curve. I remember the corned beef of old with nostalgia. To get what you want now, you have to go to extra lengths. Good is now called special. Car batteries are mostly fake. They used to last three years on average; now they can\u2019t last six months. Woe betide you if you park your car and travel for three months. You will return to a dead\u00a0 battery. Finger batteries are all useless. How can we accept this as inevitable?\u00a0<\/p>\n

80% of phone chargers are fake. Toothpaste? Fake\u2014they clump; you have to wash them off the sink . Sardines? Fake\u2014they taste like cabin biscuits. Biscuits? All fake, mostly filled with sugar or sweetners. Perhaps sweeteners, because sugar cubes are fake too. With sugar, 100 cubes = 10 cubes. This isn\u2019t hyperbole. Licensed millers dilute it all with chalk and fillers. A 2023 NBS survey confirmed this, yet nothing happened. Blue chip milk companies package 500g milk in 800g containers . They say the alternative is starvation. This isnt some Fagin pickpocketing a youth corper at Obalende.\u00a0 This is coporate fraud enabled by regulatory complicity. That\u2019s sad.<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t just about commodities. Beyond goods, there is the rot in institutions and souls. The lack of standardization has crept into all facets of\u00a0 our lives. Most of our pastors are impostors. Many of the churches are fake\u2014nobody regulates nobody. Pastors peddling prosperity without theology; churches mushrooming without Christianity. I don\u2019t want to delve into Islam. Nigeria has over half a million unregistered churches\u2014that 2021 figure is from the CAC. More than half of the university degrees we mint in this country are fake. 90% of the Phds are rewards for meticulous copy-and-paste. <\/p>\n

Nothing to do with expanding\u00a0 the frontiers of knowledge . But that should be expected.\u00a0 \u00a0Many of the\u00a0 professors are fake. The country is full of Temu professors who have never written a proper peer-reviewed paper of any scholarly value in their entire academic\u00a0 lives. Its evident when they are hired for INEC duties . They regularly\u00a0 show a shocking lack of mental and moral\u00a0 fibre. Obviously, many of the judges are rotten. Besides what we see daily in purulent judicial decisions, in 2022 , a retiring Supreme Court justice confessed the rotteness of the judiciary in public, and nobody cared. It wasn\u2019t treated as a scandal. The Justices of the Supreme Court said nothing .<\/p>\n

However Nigeria is not doomed. It desperately needs transformative leadership that prioritizes morality, development, and the people above self and politics. With that foundation, it must digitize ruthlessly and enforce blindly. Ports must have scanners, and sanctions must be harsh\u2014Kenya has cut fake imports with compulsory scanning. A public dashboard to shame offenders will help. Incentives for quality\u2014India used vouchers to cut off fake medicine by 25% in five years. Schools must be overhauled to instill ethics. Aggressive\u00a0 rural agriculture and Agro-business support. Credible elections . Police and judicial reforms.\u00a0 Decentralization.\u00a0 Quite a shopping list. But with\u00a0 good faith and hardwork all good things are possible . Nigeria is not doomed. But something has to give.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The decline became steep in the last five years. It\u2019s a tragic evolution. A diabolical darwinism . Desperation has become the business model. Manufacturers dilute, relabel, and pray the roof doesn\u2019t cave in. Regulators are gluttons. A 2024 gallop poll says only 20% of Nigerians believe in fair play. Nigeria needs a rebirth now. Something has to give.<\/p>\n

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Good building materials are gone.\u00a0 Everything is now fake\u2014almost\u00a0everything. The chronic decline took an acute turn after the COVID epidemic.\u00a0 A\u00a0 post-COVID nosedive. The naira started to plummet, prices soared. Surging costs of basic food began to drown the poor. People could no longer make it, so\u00a0 manufacturers started to fake it. Perhaps to stay [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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