The Federal Government has directed heads of tertiary education institutions to deploy the NECO e-Verify platform for verification of results of admission-seeking candidates that sat for the National Examinations Council Senior School Certificate Examination.
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, David Andrew Adejo, made this known during the unveiling of the NECO e-Verify platform on Thursday in Abuja.
Adejo said the platform would go a long way in fishing out fake results, especially during admission.
His words:
“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.”
Earlier, Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Professor Ibrahim Wushishi, said the “NECO e-Verify” is an Online Result Verification solution.
He said it guarantees instant authentication of academic and basic information about prospective candidates for admission and employment into academic institutions and workplaces, respectively.
According to the NECO boss, the platform was put in place to meet the growing need of Nigerians within and outside the country regarding result verification.
