The Federal Government is set to deepen the digital integration of education records with the National Youth Service Corps to tackle certificate racketeering, strengthen qualification verification 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, Brig Gen Olakunle Nafiu, who led a delegation of the Corps to the ministry in Abuja.
Alausa said the digital reforms being implemented under President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda were designed to close loopholes in the management and verification of educational records and make it easier to authenticate qualifications across the education system.
He said, “The digital transformation of Nigeria’s education system under President Bola 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 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.”
