WAEC Launches Digital Certificate Platform

WAEC Launched Digital Certificate Platform

The WAEC Digital Certificate is an online platform that allows both old and new candidates to access and share certificates.

Candidates can also recover their examination numbers through the platform, which is available on the web and mobile devices.

The Nigerian office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), has launched its digital certificate platform for candidates to generate certificates online and to recover burnt, lost, and damaged certificates.

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.”

Through the new platform, candidates can generate their certificates online, thereby making it easy to recover burnt, lost, and damaged certificates.

It also allows institutions/organizations to confirm certificates of candidates securely and promptly.

Patrick E. Areghan, Head of National Office at WAEC Nigeria, says there are other benefits too: ‘The innovative technology used to develop the digital certificate will also ensure high levels of data protection and security.

‘Until now, photocopies of certificates had to be relied on. This meant a time-consuming process, as WAEC verification was required. It was also open to the risk of fraud. And in many cases, people had simply lost their certificates.

The mobile application can be downloaded on Android and iOS app stores.

For more information visit www.waecnigeria.org and www.waecdirect.ng.