{"id":196737,"date":"2020-02-26T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T07:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=196737"},"modified":"2020-02-26T08:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T07:37:40","slug":"neco-fires-19-staff-over-certificate-forgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=196737","title":{"rendered":"NECO fires 19 staff over certificate forgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Governing Board of the National Examinations Council (NECO) has dismissed another 19 staff of the institution over certificate forgery.<br \/>\nA staff Certificate Verification Committee constituted by NECO management found the staff guilty of gaining employment using fake certificates.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement signed by the Head, Information and Public Relations NECO, Azeez Sani, the committee had been mandated to verify the certificate presented by a variety of staff at the time of employment.<\/p>\n<p>While performing its assignment, the committee had invited staff with questionable credentials to appear before it.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said following investigations, the affected staff confessed to working with forged certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The committee also contacted the schools and institutions where the affected staff claimed to have attended but the institutions denied having certified them.<\/p>\n<p>At its 52nd Regular meeting, the Governing Board of the exam body vetted the report of the Certificate Verification Committee and approved the dismissal of the 19 staff.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the NECO Governing Board had previously at its 17th Extra-Ordinary meeting in November, 2019, dismissed 70 staff for certificate forgery.<\/p>\n<p>The board said the verification exercise will continue to ensure it sanitized the system.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Governing Board of the National Examinations Council (NECO) has dismissed another 19 staff of the institution over certificate forgery. A staff Certificate Verification Committee constituted by NECO management found the staff guilty of gaining employment using fake certificates. According to a statement signed by the Head, Information and Public Relations NECO, Azeez Sani, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,2828,3],"tags":[2809,6605,6946],"class_list":["post-196737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-education","category-news","tag-ministry-of-education","tag-neco","tag-waec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}