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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Nigeria will Thursday, October 20 launch its new digital certificate platform, allowing the verification and printing of WAEC certificate online anywhere and in real-time.
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The WAEC digital certificate platform allows not only candidates but institutions, organiations, and recruitment agencies to carry out bulk or individual confirmation of certificates at seamlessly in real-time. with ease.
You can access the new platform via www.waec.org. Also, you can download the mobile app on android and iOS app stores.
“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 examination body announced in a in a signed statement by the Acting Head, Public Relations, WAEC Nigeria, Moyosola Adesina.
The mobile and web-based platform is designed specifically for candidates, individuals, institutions, and organizations to access, share, request, confirm certificates and recover forgotten WAEC candidates’ examination numbers.
The new platform should effectively address the increasing challenge of fake certificates and allow ease of verification of examination documents.
The statement adds: “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.”
According to Adesina, the platform will help eliminate fraud and 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,” the examination body stated.
