Employee Credentials Checking in NIgeria

We have been in the busines of verifying the accuracy of educational credentials presented by employees. Our service is actually two pronged: firstly we verify qualifications obtained in Nigeria and secondly, we verify the credentials obtained by Nigerian employees who schooled abroad.  

Through the year 2013, we noted false declaration of credentials in about 8% of all the verifications performed. At this time, it is hard to determine the extent considering that we performed slightly more than 10,000 verifications over the last 12 months. Nigeria woke up to the news today that one of its government officials had falsely claimed to obtain a degree. Rather than go into the political details, we would want to highlight the importance of verifying candidate credentials to companies, organisations and government bodies in Nigeria.

Most Nigerian companies, atleast based on our market activities think candidate background checking are a poor use of time. We are asking them to think again. During times of economic challenge, checking the background and credentials of your potential employee becomes even more important. Background checking has become critical. We urge every company in Nigeria to check every fact of their employees - including degrees, dates of degrees, class of degree, exact dates of studies, etc.

Verifying or validating degree or certificates obtained from Nigeria costs nothing compared to loss of value or reputation from hiring a fake. ETX-NG “CertVerify” provides organisations and institutions with a simple, inexpensive and almost immediate method to verify an individual’s higher education and professional certi cation quali cations irrespective of where they were obtained. 

Recognising the value of higher education and professional certi cation and wishing to eradicate the practices of bogus degrees and bogus professional certi cation claims, ETX-NG “CertVerify” promotes the practice of verifying degree and professional certi cation claims by providing a rapid, convenient and inexpensive internet-based service for employers, higher education establishments and others to verify the degree and professional certi cation quali cation claimed by applicants for employment or a position of further study.

“It is our belief that “the things people tell you or the documentation they give you isn’t necessarily true or authentic. If you accept everything at face value, you’re not doing your job”.

Our service benefi ts potential employers and recruitment agencies by providing rapid veri cation of academic quali cations at low cost. It also bene ts universities by automating the majority of veri cation processing and greatly reducing their costs. It enhances graduate employability by recognising the value of a genuine
degree and helping to eradicate the practices of bogus degrees and bogus professional certi cation claims.

Kindly contact Oshomah Omamegbe on 0803 721 5239 for more details on how we approach degree verifications in Nigeria.

E-Transcripts for Institutions in Nigeria

ETX-NG at its core is an educational credentials company; by credentials we mean transcripts, degrees, certificates, all of the things that you earn in your life; that really speaks to what you know and how well you know it. And we’re trying to solve two basic problems with credentials….

How do we help schools, universities, polytechnics, and companies in Nigeria and others bring credentials alive, so they don’t move as paper and trapped data, but they move much more efficiently and the data can be put to work for the institution.

How do we help students and learners interact with their institutions effectively and securely; whenever they want to without having to leave their jobs or other activities in the cheapest possible means.

We are africa’s first and leading electronic transcript exchange today. We’re getting close to signing on over 10% of the tertiary institutions in Nigeria – and clearly there’s this gigantic transformation from paper to electronic.

Looking around the world, everything is turning electronic and everything that wasn’t was rapidly becoming so; but transcripts are still being held out.

Basically, students results are manually collated and typed using some word processing software, printed, put into an envelope and mailed. On the other side, the recipient receives the transcript and put them into the subjects file…the more sophisticated recipients will take them out of the envelope and scan them into a database…..this makes no sense.
Institutions should prefer to receive transcripts electronically which can be attached directly into a subjects electronic file. They no longer have to open that envelope, open a manual file, or have someone scan them into a system.

Todays students are 24x7; they are savvy…in everyway. Where they want to go for information, the type of information they want to consume; where they want to send their information, how they want to share their information,….we are giving them a way to engage with their credentials, with the way they live.

What we’ve done is…we’ve come up with a secure PDF that can't be tampered with and I would suggest that secure electronic documents are more secure that paper copies.

We are talking about education; an education system that struggles for resources, that is strapped for cash. We’re saving them money and time.

We provide the true e-transcript solution for Nigerian tertiary institutions.

The four boxes on our home page

The four boxes on our home page aren't just there for fancy; although i think they are beautiful, but they actually represent the four segments of the markets we serve. All of these drive towards our vision to become the largest transcript exchange and provider of automated certificate verification services in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. I am happy to describe these boxes in brief whilst providing you with a link to download our new brochures. As always, comments are welcome.

Box 1: Students / Alumni - Apply for Transcripts: Targeted at students who gained some form of tertiary education in Nigeria and its available to non exchange members too. This service assists students and alumni in Nigeria in obtaining their academic transcripts from any tertiary institution in Nigeria; whether electronic and physical; and having such transcripts delivered to any destination worldwide. "Download flyer - Apply for transcripts in Nigeria"

Box 2: Tertiary Institutions - Join the ETX-NG Network: Targeted at all types of tertiary institutions in Nigeria; covering universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. This service represent the core of our business. We primary help the institutions by providing a more efficient and effective way of processing transcripts across the entire value chain. We have broken down the activities into three: Transcript ordering, Transcript Generation and Transcript Delivery. Institutions that are full mebers of the network are privy to all three service activities; other could opt for each as needed. "Download brochure - Processing transcripts in Nigeria"

Box 3: Corporate Organisations - Verify Degrees: Targeted at corporate organisations across the world including companies in Nigeria who may want to verify the authenticity of the degrees claimed by thier employees. This is particularly one of my favourites because it is also extended to tertiary insitutions and professional certification bodies as well. Considering that we handle thousands of transcript records, we are efficient by filtering the meta data and recycling it for our verification business in collaboration with tertiary institutions in Nigeria and similar networks abroad. "Download brochure - Degree verification in Nigeria"

Box 4: Certification Providers - Membership verification database and ETX-NG Receive: Targeted at professional certification providers in Nigeria. This service aims to develop an online database of current certificate holders for free and provide this to corporate organisations at a fee, which we is then shared. ETX-NG Receive also ensures that the incoming transcripts of members are efficiently received and stored in secure electronic format. "Download brochure - Certification Database" and "Download brochure for ETX-NG Receive."
Kindly contact our sales team on info@etx-ng.com for further information and to receive hard copies of our brochures.

Customer Testimonials on the ETX-NG platform

ETX-NG has been growing from strength to strength in recent time. We have signed in more schools and our customer satisfaction rate is very positive; Here are some of the few testimonials we have received from valuable customers who have participated on the ETX-NG transcript platform:

 Mr Adodo, Deputy Registrar - University of Benin "The most useful contribution from ETX-NG is providing the alumni of University of Benin the ability to order their transcripts online and have them delivered electronically"

 Mr Awoyemi, Registrar - Obafemi Awolowo University "The services we enjoy from ETX-NG puts us at par with tertiary institutions in USA and Europe"

 Mr Anlemi, Director of Academic Affairs - Covenant University "Now I see that electronic transcripts is not scanning a paper based transcript and sending via email; it is an actual creation of a transcript in electronic format and subsequent delivery using digital systems. ETX-NG provides this for us"

 Bayo Adewale, OAU Alumni "I was skeptical from the moment i found out about ETX-NG transcript services until the recipient received my transcript - It actually works and works well"

 Folake Roberts, Covenant University "My school used 2 weeks to process and deliver transcripts; not until they partnered with ETX-NG. It now takes 3 days - thumbs up CU"

 Mary Adakole, ABU Alumni "I am based in Ukraine and I obtained my transcript from ABU and had it delivered to USA; without speaking to anyone; what's more?"

 Ebere Ukoh, HR Director - SSTC "ETX-NG degree verification service is the best I am yet to see in Nigeria; not only is their association with tertiary institutions an advantage, the insightful reports that come with mere degree verifications prove to be a biggest value add".


Our work speaks for itself and our clients completely agree on the authenticity and reliability of our services, do you need a transcript today? don't hesitate to join our network and get your transcripts now, electronically or by post mail....

Transcript services for students and alumni of Nigerian tertiary institutions

ETX-NG assists students and alumni in obtaining their academic transcripts from any tertiary institution in Nigeria and we ensure the delivery of such transcripts to any school world-wide; whether electronic or paper. Rather than travel down to your school or send friends and relatives to obtain your academic transcripts, ETX-NG is able to assist with this faster.

We maintain a network of representatives covering each tertiary institution covered by ETX-NG who follows-up through with your order whilst working with the institution. Once the order is fulfilled, ETX-NG will ensure that your transcripts are delivered electronically where applicable or via courier and recorded channels otherwise. Our student services are as follows:

Transcript Order

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• Visit ETX-NG website www.etx-ng.com directly or either via an order page created for each institution.
• Register and choose the school from which transcript is being requested as well as the school to which transcript is to be delivered.
• Submit your order and make necessary payments
• ETX-NG will take this order and process it according to the participation level of your institution
• Where your institution is participating on the ETX-NG network, the request is forwarded to the sending school`s administrator who uploads the required transcript. ETX-NG processes the transcript and converts them to secure PDF files and store them temporarily.

Tracking Order

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Where your institution is participating on the ETX-NG network, a secure and certified PDF format of the transcript is generated and sent electronically to the receiving school as official transcript where applicable; and where your institution is not on the ETX-NG network, we adopt all applicable manual processes. Once the transcript is delivered at the receiving destination, the process is complete and your order placement has been fulfilled. On the flip side, you are able to receive incoming transcripts from institutions not on the ETX-NG network through our transcript receiving free service


Tracking Delivery

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Progress of transcript order placement are tracked via e-mails and/or sms alerts. You can subscribe for email and/or sms alerts while registering you order placement.

Obtaining Transcripts Made Easy in Nigeria

Over the years, obtaining transcripts from Universities and other Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria has come to be considered as an uphill task by Nigerian students/Alumni. This can be attributed to the rigors and bottlenecks that have come to be attached to a process which normally should to be done with ease and without so much as breaking a sweat. This is however no longer the case as a new service Company is now in place in Nigeria to make the Transcript ordering and delivery process a lot easier, faster and cheaper for Nigerian Students and Alumni.

The service company which is known as ETX-NG (Electronic Transcript Exchange and Degree Verification System for Nigeria), enables Nigerian student/alumni place an order for their transcript without stepping a foot in their school. This can be done irrespective of where the students/alumni are or where the school is located, by filling out a transcript order form online on the ETX-NG website.

For first time applicants, it takes 14 working days to obtain the ordered transcript as well as delivering it to the required institution irrespective of where the institution is located on the globe. This is an improvement to the current practice, where transcripts take a longer time to get to the receiving institutions on demand.

In addition, using this system, ETX-NG aims to keep universities in Nigeria at par with leading international schools in the process of transcript ordering, processing and delivery. 

Asides providing a solution to students and alumni, ETX-NG also helps to simplify the process of verifying degrees and certificates for employers in Nigeria. Due to the fact that degree and certificate fraud is a serious and costly problem in Nigeria, it is now a necessity to verify degrees and certificates tendered by employees.

However, corporate firms, organizations and companies face the almost the same hitches and hurdles that students and alumni face in the process of obtaining their transcripts. It is important to note that ETX-NG has received the endorsement the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), which has encouraged all Nigerian universities and Polytechnics as well as other higher institutions of learning in the country to hook up to this new service of transcript exchange and degree verification system.

ETX-NG Transcript Solutions to Students/Alumni of Nigeria

Having realized the challenges involved in obtaining transcripts from Nigerian Higher institutions, ETX-NG is spear-heading the use of an Electronic Transcripts Exchange Platform that will have the following core features:

Convenient 24/7 Access

Our online transcript ordering service offers a fast, simple way to order copies of your official transcript. Instead of students going to their school`s registration office, now they can go to the Web. This means that you can request a transcript from universities in Nigeria with just a click of the mouse

Fully Traceable

No more lost transcripts! Both the university and their students will be notified when the transcript is sent, received and opened. They will even know exactly who opened it so you can relay their contact information to the student.

Instantaneous Delivery

Instead of days or weeks, official transcripts can now be sent and received anywhere in the world (for participating institutions) within seconds.

Unmatched Document Security

Encrypted data is transmitted via a secure Internet connection applying the same high security protocols and confidentiality standards used for online banking and commerce.

Enhanced Student Service

Whether they’re applying to graduate school or starting their career, students won’t have to worry about missing a deadline or a job opportunity because their transcript was slow arriving or lost in the mail.

Increased Office Efficiencies

With our proposed solution, sending transcripts takes less time so you can focus on other tasks. Plus, your paper burden can be significantly reduced and more transcripts archived electronically and out of your way.

Lower Costs

For options with no postage, paper or envelopes to stuff, students can lower the cost of sending a transcript

Universal Readability

There are no global boundaries. The PDF format allows the transcript to be read by virtually anyone, anywhere - in its official format – maintaining the authentic look and integrity of your transcript.

Easy to Implement

Advanced web technology enables easy and safe implementation with most student systems and does not require extensive IT support.

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