The National Examination Council (NECO) has unveiled an electronic platform for the verification and confirmation of its results, with a view to curb the rising cases of forgery and impersonation.
NECO Registrar, Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi who spoke at the flag-off ceremony of the e-portal on Thursday in Abuja, noted that the platform would enable employers, educational institutions, and other relevant bodies to verify and confirm the validity of results presented by candidates as well as hiring unqualified persons.
According to him, the e-platform was accessible through the NECO website and allow users to input the details of the candidate including their examination number and year of examination. Thereafter, the system would generate a unique code that could be used to verify the candidate’s result.
He said: “Due to the growing need for verification and confirmation of results by the institutions both home and abroad, the council decided that now was the best time to introduce the e-verify platform. It is an irrefutable fact that academic institutions and employers of labour, among other agencies, rely on the verification of results to help them select the best prospective students for admission and employment purposes.
“The “NECO e- verify” is an online result verification solution that guarantees instant authentication of academic and basic information about prospective candidates for admission and employment into academic institutions and workplaces respectively.”
Meanwhile, the Federal Government has directed all heads of tertiary institutions in the country to deploy NECO’s e-Verify platform in verifying the results of candidates seeking admission with the National Examinations Council Senior School Certificate Examination result.
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr David Andrew Adejo while giving the directive, said NECO was aligning with global best practices and has taken a good step in fishing out fake results, especially during the admission process.
He said: “Arising from the fact that tertiary institutions must verify and confirm results of candidates to be admitted into their schools, the need for recertification for results becomes very necessary.
”All Vice Chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics, provosts of colleges of education, and head of other tertiary institutions, including Innovation Enterprises Institutions are therefore mandated to make use of NECO e-Verify software for verifying all candidates that will be admitted who sat in NECO exam”