The National Business and Technical Examinations Board recently launched its Digital Certificate Platform aimed at resolving the longstanding issue of certificate backlogs affecting students.
At the launch event, NABTEB’s Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Ifeoma Mercy Isiugo-Abanihe, highlighted the platform’s benefits.
She emphasized that the digital system, now live, would enable students to access their results seamlessly and allow employers to verify the authenticity of certificates presented by job applicants.
“It is therefore interesting to note that this problem will soon become a thing of 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,” Isiugo-Abanihe said.
She further noted, “Also, employers of labour, tertiary education institutions now have easy access (to verify the authenticity of certificates presented by their employees or applicants).”
Isiugo-Abanihe added, “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 for all concerned stakeholders of NABTEB in Nigeria and the diaspora.”
The NDCP is described as a technologically advanced platform that simplifies and speeds up the process of accessing certificates via web devices, including mobile phones.
“It allows candidates to make requests, make payment and, thereafter, generate and download their certificates. This will undeniably go a long way to eliminate the problem of having a backlog of outstanding certificates,” Isiugo-Abanihe explained.
Issa Abubakar, the Director of Information Communication Technology at the Ministry of Education, praised NABTEB’s achievement in advancing technology.
