FG Moves to Digitise Education Records, Curb Certificate Racketeering
The Federal Government is set to deepen the digital integration of education records with the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, as part of efforts to tackle certificate racketeering, strengthen the verification of academic qualifications and prevent genuine graduates from being denied opportunities.
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, disclosed this on Tuesday during a meeting with the Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, who led a delegation of the Corps to the Ministry in Abuja.
Alausa said the digital reforms being implemented under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda were designed to close loopholes in the management and verification of educational records.
He explained that the reforms would also make it easier to authenticate academic qualifications across the Nigerian education system and strengthen the integrity of educational records.
The Minister said the initiative would help to address the problem of fake certificates while ensuring that genuine students and graduates are not disadvantaged as a result of weaknesses in the existing system.
He said, “The digital transformation of Nigeria’s education system under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda is strengthening the integrity of academic qualifications, tackling certificate racketeering and ensuring that genuine students and graduates are not disadvantaged.”
The Minister further explained that the Nigerian Education Repository Data Bank was collecting and verifying university certificates, tracking learners across the education system and supporting tertiary institutions through help-desk officers.
