The Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) is the government agency responsible for setting and enforcing quality standards for imported and domestically manufactured products in Nigeria. To ensure that regulated products comply with the country's technical standards or other international standards that have been approved for implementation, and protect Nigerian consumers from unsafe or non-compliant products, the National Bureau of Standards of Nigeria has decided to implement regulated products exported to the country. Mandatory conformity assessment procedure before shipment (hereinafter referred to as SONCAP).

On March 1, 2013, the Nigerian Standards Bureau officially released the new SONCAP operation process. In the future, each independent third-party agency will no longer directly issue SONCAP certification, and the exporter will apply for product compliance certification (CoC) in the exporting country. The importer then applies the SC certificate to the Nigerian Standards Agency (SON) with a valid CoC.