The National Examination Council (NECO) over the weekend scrapped the use of Scratch cards in is examination with the procurement of 8,000 biometric capturing machines worth N500 million.

Speaking in an interview with Journalists at NECO headquarter in Minna at the weekend, the Chairman of Governing Council Abubakar Sadiq said the scratched cards were eliminated because it became a source of financial leakage in NECO and also racketeering. He explained that the racketeers are hoarding cards and students find it difficult to get the cards.

“So we removed scratch card and now with biometric machines people can use their handset to register for the examination and whatever is realized goes straight into our Treasury Single Account (TSA) account, so it will also boast transparency.” He said they want to pass out the benefit of the reduction which the president has made to their own students otherwise they will be cheated.

According to him, the machines will capture every data from every student and school so on examination day, “our monitors will go to schools so all those who have registered will go through a process by placing their finger on the machine to ascertain if they are the candidate registered or not, with this it will be impossible for anyone to impersonate anyone.”

“We are sure this will deal with impersonation and any school or examination centre that refuses to use the machines will be cancelled,” he said.

He also said students will be given numbers at the point of registration to use to access their result.

Also speaking, the Acting Registrar, Abubakar Gana, said the biometric verification machines and the 20 Toyota Hilux vans were procured to tackle impersonation and ease movement of examination materials.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/why-neco-scrapped-use-of-scratch-cards-in-examination.html

Why not increase the price, we will not take it

nice.

We know it's to avoid snake swallowing all the money naa.

Since a snake swallowed millions in jamb they've been haunting other examination bodies.

So we removed scratch card and now with biometric machines people can use their handset to register for the examination and whatever is realized goes straight into our Treasury Single Account (TSA) account, so it will also boast transparency

A very good step in the right direction.
God bless our President Muhammadu Buhari.

.it became a source of financial leakage in NECO and also racketeering. He explained that the racketeers are hoarding cards and students find it difficult to get the cards

For the above reason, I support this initiative. Recall the stress of those years to get scratch card

Hope it won't backfire like Inec

Hope this is not a technique of looting

Nice development by Neco.

Good and nice initiative, this will reduce if not combat impersonation.. Kudos to NECO board..

I smell snitch everywhere here!!!

You people want to copy buhari's style. Something that never worked well for the country but worked well for his pocket!

And those selling tge scratch card will be pushed out of business, kai buhari’s govt.

zakim:
The National Examination Council (NECO) over the weekend scrapped the use of Scratch cards in is examination with the procurement of 8,000 biometric capturing machines worth N500 million.

Speaking in an interview with Journalists at NECO headquarter in Minna at the weekend, the Chairman of Governing Council Abubakar Sadiq said the scratched cards were eliminated because it became a source of financial leakage in NECO and also racketeering. He explained that the racketeers are hoarding cards and students find it difficult to get the cards.

“So we removed scratch card and now with biometric machines people can use their handset to register for the examination and whatever is realized goes straight into our Treasury Single Account (TSA) account, so it will also boast transparency.” He said they want to pass out the benefit of the reduction which the president has made to their own students otherwise they will be cheated.

According to him, the machines will capture every data from every student and school so on examination day, “our monitors will go to schools so all those who have registered will go through a process by placing their finger on the machine to ascertain if they are the candidate registered or not, with this it will be impossible for anyone to impersonate anyone.”

“We are sure this will deal with impersonation and any school or[b] examination centre that refuses to use the machines will be cancelled,” he said. [/b]

He also said students will be given numbers at the point of registration to use to access their result.

Also speaking, the Acting Registrar, Abubakar Gana, said the biometric verification machines and the 20 Toyota Hilux vans were procured to tackle impersonation and ease movement of examination materials.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/why-neco-scrapped-use-of-scratch-cards-in-examination.html

The bold part explains it all why there will still be cheating in the exam. Have you forgotten this is Nigeria where people do anything for money?
The fact still remains,there will still be cheating.

kings59:



The bold part explains it all why there will still be cheating in the exam. Have you forgotten this is Nigeria where people do anything for money?
The fact still remains,there will still be cheating.

this development is not to eradicate malpractises or loothing but to reduce their incidence to the bearest minimum.

They should consider the stability of the network before embarking on it

Students in secondary school and in ss3 classes, are they expected to have android phones❓
especially those in the missionary schools where they are not allowed to stay in boarding homes with a handset.

All this plans are to toughen external examinations like,
Waec
Neco
Jamb
Gce

What plans have they put in place for teachers to teach thoroughly ❓

Ok

hope the machine Will be so sensitive to capture all registered student finger print. before it cause untold hardship like our epileptic election card reader

What of people who already have neco result hw will dey check

Nice one

Lol it actually makes it easy to impersonate..the person impersonating registers his own finger print with the details of the main candidate n walk into the exam hall by using his finger print..they should add facial recognition

kelvincoll:


For the above reason, I support this initiative. Recall the stress of those years to get scratch card

Nigerians are fond of making simple things difficult. Always looking at how they can take advantage of a system to benefit themselves. They don't even think about how this will affect their relatives

Aladine:
Lol it actually makes it easy to impersonate..the person impersonating registers his own finger print with the details of the main candidate n walk into the exam hall by using his finger print..they should add facial recognition

This is the more reason we need a central database. If the finger prints cannot be matched with another independent source, then it's useless. These kids will grow up to register their finger prints for driver's license and INEC or NIMC card

Rotjijatau:
And those selling tge scratch card will be pushed out of business, kai buhari’s govt.

They should find something else to sell. It is not only neco scratch card that is available for sell now.
When the advantages outweighs the disadvantages, we do the needful.
The fear of importers of generators being pushed out of business is the major reason Nigeria will never experience 24hrs power supply.
If you know you know.

is this for the soon to commence neco examination?