Vice chancellors of universities and other heads of tertiary institutions in Nigeria have been directed by the Federal Government to deploy e-Verify platform unveiled by the National Examinations Council, NECO, for verification of its Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, results for candidates seeking admissions.
The directive was issued last Thursday by the permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr David Adejo, during the unveiling of the NECO e-Verify platform in Abuja.
Adejo, who expressed delight that NECO is ensuring its activities is aligning with global best practices, said the platform would go a long way in fishing out fake results especially during admission process.
“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, 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,” he said.
Earlier, Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Prof Ibrahim Wushishi, said 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.”
According to the NECO boss, the platform was put in place to meet the growing need of Nigerians within and outside the country in the area of result verification.
“Prior to this time, all requests for verification and/or confirmation of results were routed through the Council’s Headquarters in Minna, which took a longer time to process.
“Due to the growing need for verification and confirmation of results by institutions both at home and abroad, the Council decided that now was the best time to introduce the e-Verify platform.
“From available records at our disposal, we have observed that there were requests for verification and confirmation of results from sixty-four (64) institutions across thirty-seven countries over a two-year period (2020-2022).
“Similarly, we have such requests from seventy-two institutions in Nigeria within the same period-this is besides requests from individuals which are numerous.”
