WAEC Introduces Digitalized Certificate Platfom

By Ayodele Oni

To make its operations more liberal and accessible, the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, Nigeria has introduced a digitalized certificate platform.

The platform, according to the examination body, will go public as from Thursday, October 20 when it will be launched.

A statement by the Acting Head, of Public Relations, WAEC Nigeria, Moyosola Adesina, explained that the platform, a mobile and web-based application has powerful features.

It was designed specifically for candidates, individuals, institutions, and organizations to access, share, request, confirm certificates and recover forgotten WAEC candidates’ examination numbers.

“Advancing in its mission of encouraging academic and moral excellence, promoting sustainable human resource development and international cooperation, meeting the growing global demands, and ensuring prompt service delivery, WAEC Nigeria is set to unveil the much-awaited WAEC Digital Certificate Platform.

“The council is excited and thrilled to introduce this innovation at a time the global world has gone digital.

“This further proves that the Council maintains its vision of being a world-class examining body, adding value to the educational goals of its stakeholders, by providing timely solutions to all the bureaucratic bottlenecks associated with the academic certificates.

“The Digital Platform creates an easier, instant and safer mode of accessing certificates by stakeholders.

“With this digital platform, users will be able to recover burnt, lost, and damaged certificates.”

On the benefits of the innovation, the spokesman pointed out that the digital certificate platform would, among other things, eliminate the chances of fraud, and the bureaucratic bottlenecks associated with the manual procedures of certificate issuance and collection.

“The benefits of this innovation are enormous, as candidates who have sat for the WASSCE in the past and present are able to access and share the original copies of their certificates with ease, the original copies of their certificates, which can be instantly confirmed from a credible and reliable source, regardless of the location.

“Also, institutions, organizations, and recruitment agencies can carry out bulk/individual confirmation of certificates at once, with ease.

“The reliability and authenticity of this confirmation on the digital platform eliminates the chances of fraud.”