Candidates can print their WAEC certificates anywhere, anytime.

The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, Nigeria, has announced Thursday, October 20 for the launch of the digital certificate platform.

In a signed statement by the Acting Head of Public Relations, WAEC Nigeria, Moyosola Adesina, the platform, a mobile and web-based application that has powerful features, was designed specifically for candidates, individuals, institutions, and organizations to access, share, request, confirm certificates and recover forgotten WAEC candidates’ examination numbers.

Part of the statement read: “Advancing in its mission of encouraging academic and moral excellence; promoting sustainable human resource development and international cooperation; meeting the growing global demands; and ensuring prompt service delivery, WAEC Nigeria is set to unveil the much-awaited WAEC Digital Certificate Platform.”

” The council is excited and thrilled to introduce this innovation at a time when the global world has gone digital. This further proves that the Council maintains its vision of being a world-class examining body by adding value to the educational goals of its stakeholders by providing timely solutions to all the bureaucratic bottlenecks associated with the academic certificates.

” The Digital Platform creates an easier, instantaneous, and safer mode of accessing certificates by stakeholders. Users will be able to recover burnt, lost, and damaged certificates with this digital platform. Adesina noted.

On the benefits of the innovation, the spokesman for WAEC Nigeria explained that the digital certificate platform would, among other things, eliminate the chances of fraud and the bureaucratic bottlenecks associated with the manual procedures of certificate issuance and collection.

Her words: “The benefits of this innovation are enormous, as candidates who have sat for the WASSCE in the past and present are able to access and share the original copies of their certificates with ease.” The original copies of their certificates can be instantly confirmed by a credible and reliable source, regardless of the location.

Also, institutions, organizations, and recruitment agencies can carry out bulk or individual confirmation of certificates at once, with ease. The reliability and authenticity of this confirmation on the digital platform eliminates the chances of fraud.

The unveiling/launching of the product will be on Thursday, October 20th, 2022. The general public and all stakeholders are hereby enjoined to take advantage of this new WAEC Digital Certificate Platform, designed to eliminate the bureaucratic bottlenecks associated with the manual procedures of certificate issuance and collection.

” The WAEC Digital Certificate Platform is available online via www.waec.org. The mobile application can be downloaded from the Android and iOS app stores. For more information, stakeholders can visit Waec’s website.