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As a result of rising cases of certificate forgery among its workers and malpractices among schools and candidates, the National Examinations Council is taking a number of measures to sanitise the examination system, OLALEYE ALUKO reports

The National Examinations Council is currently verifying its workers and examination officers in its bid to fish out those in possession of forged certificates and to sanitise the examination system.

The Staff Certificate Verification Committee, which was set up by the acting Registrar of the council, Mr Abubakar Gana, has a mandate to verify and query the certificates being used by NECO workers.

The registrar set up the committee, headed by the Director of Human Resource Management, Mr Mustapha Abdul in 2019, in line with the council’s policy of zero tolerance for corruption, with the registrar directing that the committee should fish out any worker using fake certificates.

The council told our correspondent on Wednesday that about 157 members of staff of NECO had cases to answer concerning their certificates. It added that they were invited for further screening by the Verification Committee.

It was also discovered that 89 workers had been indicted by NECO and confirmed to be using fake certificates.

The council’s Governing Board has directed that the 89 workers are not only dismissed from NECO, but also their files should be transferred to the police and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission for prosecution.

Of the 89 dismissed workers, NECO said on Wednesday that most of them are Executive Officers and General Duties personnel. Meanwhile, five of them are Chief Examination Officers, four are Principal Examination Officers while six are Senior Examination Officers.

The first phase of the big stick wielded by the council started on November 15, 2019, when the Governing Board directed that 70 of the 89 workers be dismissed and quit from work henceforth.

NECO’s Verification Committee had contacted the schools and tertiary institutions which the affected workers claimed they attended and found out that they did not obtain such school’s certificates.

“The committee contacted the schools which the affected workers claimed to have attended but the institutions denied them. On completion of the assignment, the committee submitted its findings to the NECO management which forwarded it to the NECO Governing Board.

“At its 17th extra-ordinary meeting, the Governing Board vetted the report and approved the dismissal of the affected staff. The acting Registrar has no tolerance for corruption and is sanitising the system in line with the President’s anti-corruption stance,” the NECO Head of Information and Public Relations Division, Mr Azeez Sani, explained.

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The second phase of the verification exercise took place in February 2020 and 19 workers were found to be in possession of fake certificates.

The Governing Board of the council, led by the Chairman, Dr Abubakar Saddique, reconvened on February 25 for its 52nd Regular meeting and approved the dismissal of the affected staff.

“The NECO’s Governing Board approved the dismissal. The Staff Certificate Verification Committee carried out its assignment diligently by inviting some workers with questionable credentials to appear before it, during which the affected personnel attested that their certificates were forged. The certificate verification exercise which is ongoing is aimed at sanitising the system,” Sani added.

The council told our correspondent on Wednesday that over 1,000 workers had been screened and the 89 dismissed personnel would be prosecuted by the police and the ICPC.

The council said, “The screening is for all NECO workers nationwide, whether at state level, in the zonal offices or the headquarters. The details of those found with issues of falsification of results or certificates have been given to the ICPC and the police for prosecution.

“It is difficult to predict the duration of the exercise, since the responses from institutions are gradual and the concerned members are only invited for screening if there are issues raised on them by their institutions.

“Of the 89 workers, five are Chief Examination Officers, four are Principal Examination Officers while six are Senior Examination Officers. There is no Assistant Director, Deputy Director or Director found to have falsified results or certificates so far.”

Our correspondent learnt that NECO would not beam its searchlight on only its workers. The council also planned to investigate students of various tertiary institutions who used forged NECO certificates to gain admission to the schools.

On March 2, 2020, the council received four students from the University of Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory, who were taken to court for allegedly forging their NECO certificates.

The four suspects reportedly used the NECO results to gain admission, but they were found out when the council embarked on a screening exercise at the university.

The screening exercise is not limited to the University of Abuja; it is ongoing in some major tertiary institutions in the country.

The council handed the indicted students, who have also been dismissed by the university, were handed by the council to the police and they were arraigned at the FCT Magistrate Court in Wuse, in the first week of March 2020.

Apart from the war on forged certificates, the council registrar, Gana, has also sought the partnership of the Department of State Services to curb the rising cases of malpractices during the conduct of its school examinations.

On January 20, the NECO Board Chairman, Saddique, and the registrar, Gana, met with the DSS Director-General, Yusuf Bichi, in Abuja, on the modalities of deploying operatives to curb such

Dollar to Naira Exchange Rate, Four years after Nigeria tried and failed to stop its currency from collapsing, Africa’s biggest crude producer is again reacting to this oil crisis the same way it did in the recent past.

It worked out badly then as oil revenues, which account for 90% of foreign-exchange earnings, failed to rebound in time -- leading to a depletion in the central bank’s fire power to defend the naira. It will likely fail again, if the West Africa nation sticks to the same template.

A surge in supply after OPEC failure to agree on production cuts with Russia has combined with reduced demand as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts economies globally. This means crude prices will remain low far longer than the central bank’s dwindling reserves can support the currency, which has weakened the least among major oil producing countries in 2020.

With Nigeria’s naira official exchange rates fixed by the country’s Central Bank, these black market operators often deliver a more accurate verdict on the levels of supply, demand and prices. Over the past two days, naira to dollar exchange rates—which have stayed quite stable at around 360 naira to the dollar since mid-2017—have reached 430 naira. One currency trader tells Quartz Africa dollars are literally no longer available even on the black market due to “excessive demand.”

Much of that demand is down to bureau de change operators hoarding dollars while speculators attempt to hedge against potential naira losses in the event of a devaluation. “Both are happening at the same time but there is a balance tilted towards towards hoarding [by bureau de change operators],” says Manasseh Egedegbe, an Abuja-based investment manager.

With Nigeria’s economy perennially import-dependent, a dollar crunch typically affects a wide range of businesses that require hard currency to fund imports of input materials in a country whose weak industrial base means it makes very little from scratch.

The availability of dollars is also typically a hot button issue among middle class Nigerians, a key demography, who can afford foreign travel, health care or even education—Nigerians spent $514 million to school in the United States in 2018.

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Controversial Video blogger, Bold Pink has confirmed that Davido's girlfriend, Chioma, is four months' pregnant and that she will give birth to a male child.


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WAEC GCE 2019 Timetable is now out. The timetable has been published online and you can download or view it here on Earboad.com.

In summary, the examination will start on Tuesday 13th August 2019 and end on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019. According to the WAEC GCE 2019 Timetable, the first paper to be written is Foods and Nutrition 3 (Practical) Planning Section. The exam will commence by 9:30 am and end at 10:30 am.

Meanwhile, Mathematics and English will be written on Saturday 7th September and Saturday 21st September respectively. You can check the dates for other subjects in the timetable below.


Apart from this WAEC GCE 2019 Timetable, we also provide timetables for other public and private exams like WAEC Timetable, NECO Timetable, Neco Gce Timetable etc.

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