West African Examinations Council (WAEC) situated in Nigeria has launched its digital certificate platform for candidates to generate certificates online and to recover burnt, lost, and damaged certificates.
Confiance News gathered that it is the first of its kind since 1952, when the examination body was set up.
Certificates produced from 1999 to date are eligible for such recovery.
The platform, which involves mobile and web-based applications, was unveiled Thursday at the WAEC International Office in Lagos.
According to WAEC’s Head of National Office for Nigeria, Patrick Areghan, it will cost N7,500 for new and old candidates to assess the platform, N3,500 to share and N5,000 for certificate confirmation to “eliminate fraud and send fakers out of the market.”
He added that the platform will enable over 30 million certificate holders to “access and share the original copies of their certificates from anywhere in the world and those from 1970 to 1998 will be attended to shortly.”
Developed by Botosoft Technologies, the platform can also be used to recover candidates’ forgotten or lost examination numbers and “it has many security doors that will make it impossible to hack.”
In his welcome address, Mr Areghan reiterated the importance of technological advancement in the education sector, adding that WAEC is “evolving to meet the demands of a changing world.”
“We have migrated from physical registration of candidates to online registration; online verification of results and online result printouts.
Credit: Premium Times
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