NECO, NOUN team up to fight certificate fraud, expand computer-based exams

Efforts to fortify the credibility of nationalist examinations successful Nigeria received a boost arsenic the National Examinations Council, NECO, unveiled plans to spouse with the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, connected physics effect verification and the enlargement of computer-based testing, CBT, successful the country.

The NECO Registrar, Prof. Ibrahim Dantani Wushishi, made the disclosure connected Tuesday during a courtesy sojourn to the Vice-Chancellor of NOUN, Prof. Uduma Oji Uduma, noting that the collaboration would heighten the authentication of candidates’ results and curb the rising menace of certificate forgery.

According to Wushishi, the concern volition alteration seamless integration of NECO’s e-Verify level into NOUN’s admittance process, ensuring that lone genuine results are accepted.

He explained that anterior to the instauration of the physics verification system, effect confirmation was handled manually, a process that often took months, peculiarly for overseas institutions.

The Registrar added that the assembly has since verified astir 5 cardinal results electronically and is moving towards afloat migration from paper-based examinations to CBT, successful enactment with national acquisition policy.

In his response, Prof. Uduma welcomed the initiative, describing effect verification arsenic a non-negotiable request for academic...