e-Platform for Result Verification, Confirmation has been Deployed by NECO.

Cursory: The National Examinations Council (NECO) has unveiled an e-platform for verification and confirmation of results of examinations, called NECO e-verify.

The Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Ibrahim Dantani Wushishi, at the unveiling of the platform in Abuja on Thursday, said this will help to provide accuracy of academic credentials.

ALSO READ: Legal Battle Intensifies: ABU, NECO Present Evidence Of Certificate Forgery Against Kaduna Central Senator

NECO e-verify is designed to provide dual result verification purposes like; the instant result verification and institutional bulk verification.

The main goal is to prevent educational institutions, employers, and other agencies from granting admission or hiring unqualified persons that may hinder the ease of achieving set goals, helping organizations to seamlessly verify the authenticity of NECO results presented to them for admission or recruitment anywhere around the globe.

During the unveiling of the platform, Prof Wushishi stated that the platform will bring great relief to millions of examination candidates. These were his exact statements.

ALSO READ: Kano Poly Launches Newly Developed Results Processing Software

“Due to the growing need for verification and confirmation of results by institutions both home and abroad, the Council decided that now was the best time to introduce the e-Verify platform.

“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 work places respectively.

“Result verification is an important process that helps to ensure the accuracy of academic credentials. By verifying the authenticity of candidates’ results, academic institutions and employers will be more confident that they are admitting and hiring persons who have the required qualification for further studies and specific job schedules.

Still speaking;

“With proper verification of candidates results, institutions and businesses will run more efficiently as they will be able to recruit the best applicants that are capable of learning faster and employees that can carry out their duties without or with minimal supervision.

“This also places universities and other tertiary institutions on a good pedestal as candidates with questionable results would not dare to apply for admission.“

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, David Adejo, who was also present at the unveiling described the platform as a game changing initiative. He said;

“This is another way of discouraging fraud and ensuring transparency in the system.

“All Vice Chancellors of universities, Rectors of Polytechnics, Provost of Colleges of Education, heads of other institutions are therefore, mandated to make use of the NECO e-verify software for verifying all candidates’ results that sat the NECO examinations.”

The chairperson of the occasion, Dr. Akon Etim Eyakenyi, the deputy governor of Akwa Ibom state, said; “We are on a world where robot are effectively replacing humans. This is the era of e-learning, e-commerce and e-government and Nigeria needs to double up and that is what NECO is trying to do today.”

She went further to admonish NECO to work towards full automation of its operations while encouraging schools to embrace technology.