By Gold Queeneth
With the determination to reposition the educational sector and move with the current trend of technology, the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), has flagged-off its Digital Certificate Platform (NDCP) to help solve the problem of backlogs of issuance of certificates to those who have taken its examinations.
The Registrar, Chief Executive Officer of NABTEB, Prof. Ifeoma Mercy Isiugo-Abanihe, disclosed this during the official flags-off of NDCP at the institution headquarters in Benin.
She said the platform which is now operational, will not only help the students to access their results but employers of labour who will want to ascertain the veracity of the would-be applicants are parading as their results.
“I have come to realize that one of the major needs of the critical stakeholders which the Board has been striving to meet even before my tenure has been that of clearing outstanding certificates.
“It is therefore interesting to note that this problem will soon become a thing of the today’s flag-off, as candidates located anywhere in the world can go to the internet and have access to their certificates by visiting the NDCP.
“Also, employers of labour, tertiary education institutions now have easy access (to verify the authenticity of certificates presented by their employees or applicants.
“Permit me, therefore to say that this idea to develop a digital certificate platform which was birthed under my leadership, will, by the grace of God make life much easier to all concerned stakeholders of NABTEB in Nigeria and the diaspora.
“The NABTEB Digital Certificate platform is a technologically enforced platform that makes it easy and faster for candidates to get access to their certificates through web devices, including mobile phones.
“It allows candidates to make request, make payment and, thereafter, generate and download their certificates. This will, undeniably go a long way to eliminate the problem of having backlog of outstanding certificates”, Isiugo-Abanihe said.
On the part of the Director of Information Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Education, Issa Abubakar, he commended NABTEB for its feat in technological advancement.
He also commended the National Assembly for its approval of the NDCP in NABTEB.
