Friend, you do not need a computer to verify the authenticity or validity of a certificate.
I have been involved in doing this where I work and this is how it goes.
An email is sent to the body that offered the certificate with a scanned copy of the document clearly showing photo, name, cert number, date etc requesting they verify.
You normally get a response in a few weeks.
Nothing wrong with laminating documents to preserve them.
Better still, save scanned electronic copies in cloud storage.

tivta:
Only God knows where all these people keep getting their fake news? Is there no body here who remembers the Toronto scandal? Or are all nairaland users of the indomie generation? Haba...

Link pls to the Toronto case
Or the info on what happened.
****seen... Thanks for raising the scandal case... Will go thru it

There is nothing bad learning from other peoples mistakes, it just that one of my uncles who once travelled out of Nigeria told me that it is not a good idea to laminate certificate Cus of verification
if u want to keep them clean u can keep them in nylon jacket bagsthere is nothing bad learning from other peoples mistakes, it just that one of my uncles who once travelled out of Nigeria told me that it is not a good idea to laminate certificate Cus of verification
If u want to keep them clean u can keep them in nylon jacket bagsthere is nothing bad learning from other peoples mistakes, it just that one of my uncles who once travelled out of Nigeria told me that it is not a good idea to laminate certificate Cus of verification
if u want to keep them clean u can keep them in nylon jacket bags

Felixsparks:
my thought exactly

You assume we all have rats and termites in our houses. Rats and termites are not the norm. Anyway, you can put the certificate in a plastic sleeve so you don't necessarily have to laminate it to protect it

U guys are scaring me o. I've never heard of this stuff before. I laminated all my certificates, even down to my M.sc

Certs can b verified online now.. Why d fuss.. JAMB, WEAC, NECO, BSC, NYSC ALL CAN B VERIFIED ONLINE LAMINATE OR NOT..

jeloser:
ok

still breathing

In Nigeria it'd accepted whether laminated or not but if you are planning to go abroad, DO NOT LAMINATE IT.

All my certs are laminated BT wife's own, I told her no way.

laminated certificate was not allowed during the last interview I attended ....

bigerboy200:

Says who?? All my certificates ( except my Msc..and was clearly stated that it shouldn't b laminated) are laminated..and they were NOTARIZED..I have certified true copies from the federal high court.(funny enough they didn't check d original copies) . besides no big deal dis days, they can even be notarized under d bridge in Computer village..hungry lawyers plenty like pure water. .na small thing.......but won't advise anyone to laminate theirs dis day tho..

@ bolded summarizes everything

Welber:
Laminated ORIGINAL certificates can not be NOTARIZED
If you intend using your certificate outside the country of origin, then do NOT laminate your certificate

About employees (in nigeria) not accepting laminated certificate because of ingenuity. I don't know when that started, but I'm aware employees can request a verification from the certifying body.

If you must laminate, don't laminate from a quack who would end up ruining your certificate right before your eyes!

Lawyer, where did you hear this?

Instead of laminating, why don't you put your certificate in an envelope and write the title of the certificate on it with a marker. You can also keep it in a water resistant envelope.

Just fumigate your house, get rid of insects and rodents.

Timolanki:
I was overwhelmed when i was handed my licence and certificate after my oath taking n convocation respectively. The next thing that crossed my mind was to go and protect it with a permanent, termite resistant lamination only for my happiness to b ruined at home. My cousin on seeing my laminated cert n licence told me that i ve rendered them useless that employees no longer accept laminated cert. I asked why n he said that fake cert are concealed by lamination as d genuiness can't b detected with a computer. I asked other people n they confirmed it. So if ur planning 2 laminate ur cert ask questions b4 dat. HOW TRUE IS THIS NAIRALANDERS COS I FEEL AWFUL NOW?

Stop talking like an illiterate. Any organization is who serious about you and wants to verify your certificate can contact the school or organization that issued it. It is as simple as that. It is called "administrative work" or "processing."

To laminate your certificate and let everyone who needs to see it have access to it is better than 'keeping it with the Military Board' where no one will be able to see it, only to come and use a non-laminated NEPA bill certificate 50 years later.

ichommy:


Nice Point, But you can Protect it from Rat etc. some folder can help with that.

I visit one Organization dey declined my Laminated Cert.

True. Actually I'm just hearing for the first time about employees declining laminated certs. I think that's unfair.

Timolanki:
I was overwhelmed when i was handed my licence and certificate after my oath taking n convocation respectively. The next thing that crossed my mind was to go and protect it with a permanent, termite resistant lamination only for my happiness to b ruined at home. My cousin on seeing my laminated cert n licence told me that i ve rendered them useless that employees no longer accept laminated cert. I asked why n he said that fake cert are concealed by lamination as d genuiness can't b detected with a computer. I asked other people n they confirmed it. So if ur planning 2 laminate ur cert ask questions b4 dat. HOW TRUE IS THIS NAIRALANDERS COS I FEEL AWFUL NOW?

Don't believe everything you hear @op. Your certified authenticity can be confirmed by the number on it. So forget story, lamination won't affect your certificate in this form.

chemystery:
This thing we call certificate is just overrated. If we develop our brain and use it well, we don't need that sh!!t. You can ask Bill Gates or Dangote.

After my 5years in school, i was disappointed to be handed a mere paper that was manufactured within a span of few minutes. And i wonder how this paper compares to my 5years of suffering where the most you can get from it is being a slave to a company owned by a man who has no certificate or can't even locate where he kept his certificate.
If you earn much in such companies, it is either you have or are dedicating most of your youthful age to its growth, or it poses threat to your life or health.

And the worst part is a man who has the money can just pay his way to obtain what you have been suffering to get for years.

OP, I have laminated my certificate and i was told long ago it is not good to do so. But i dont give a damn!
Who certificate don epp? (to speak in Bill Gates, Seun Osewa and other entrepreneurs' point of view)

If we can't start having that entrepreneural spirit, we will remain stagnant in terms of development while we keep using our certificate to work as modern sophisticated slaves in all these oyibo companies.

Lemme stop here.

But Nigerians and certificate....

Hahaha...that got me cracking up!
What did you think they were going to give you - A late model Ferrari and a house on the beach?

That is not true it is important dt u protect ur cert' if dewant to find out if is genue or not d cert no s there.

The genuiness can be verified

lamination of certificate or not na trash 4 lawma to carry joor.na poverty dey make pple carry cert here nd there if ur papa rich get mouth na jus call go do am

tivta:


I disagree, all the institution needs to do is send a letter to the institution, remember the Toronto case?

They really don't know. Just like someone who talked about "Calculator" to calculate money while with a laptop. I asked him to use his computer. The dude was astonished and nodded happily.

callmelanner:
It is until rat and termites do u strong thing before u see the need to laminate ur certificate

do u live inside holes

Olulinks:


Don't believe everything you hear @op. Your certified authenticity can be confirmed by the number on it. So forget story, lamination won't affect your certificate in this form.

I was shocked when i learnt of it but I'm beginning to regain confidence in d lamination after reading other ways a cert genuiness could b ascertained.

DeeTus:
Stop talking like an illiterate. Any organization is who serious about you and wants to verify your certificate can contact the school or organization that issued it. It is as simple as that. It is called "administrative work" or "processing."

that i thought also

fejicruz:
Rat can eat wood. So laminating your certificate can't protect it from them

No one or nowhere actually can guarantee 100% protection, not even storing it in a bank vault or in the clouds. I guess one'll just have to go along with what one's comfortable with.

banme1:
do u live inside holes

NO but there is the presence of RATS in over 70% of the homes in Nigeria

Most commentators did not really say or know the reason why (sabu) certificate should not be laminated it is because lamination burns the hidden data under the seal

Timolanki:
I was overwhelmed when i was handed my licence and certificate after my oath taking n convocation respectively. The next thing that crossed my mind was to go and protect it with a permanent, termite resistant lamination only for my happiness to b ruined at home. My cousin on seeing my laminated cert n licence told me that i ve rendered them useless that employees no longer accept laminated cert. I asked why n he said that fake cert are concealed by lamination as d genuiness can't b detected with a computer. I asked other people n they confirmed it. So if ur planning 2 laminate ur cert ask questions b4 dat. HOW TRUE IS THIS NAIRALANDERS COS I FEEL AWFUL NOW?

u have no cause to worry about, govt agencies dont check d result u present, instead dey send d result to d examination bodies to verify d authenticity of d result, relax.

Timolanki:
I was overwhelmed when i was handed my licence and certificate after my oath taking n convocation respectively. The next thing that crossed my mind was to go and protect it with a permanent, termite resistant lamination only for my happiness to b ruined at home. My cousin on seeing my laminated cert n licence told me that i ve rendered them useless that employees no longer accept laminated cert. I asked why n he said that fake cert are concealed by lamination as d genuiness can't b detected with a computer. I asked other people n they confirmed it. So if ur planning 2 laminate ur cert ask questions b4 dat. HOW TRUE IS THIS NAIRALANDERS COS I FEEL AWFUL NOW?

What most organisations do is to go to the school/college to verify the authenticity of the certificate.

mechanics:
u have no cause to worry about, govt agencies dont check d result u present, instead dey send d result to d examination bodies to verify d authenticity of d result, relax.

Ok.

you can't unlaminate it
*e go tear*