No fewer than 70 staff of the National Examinations Council (NECO) have been dismissed for certificate forgery.
The approval for the dismissal of the affected staff was approved at NECO’s 17th extra-ordinary meeting of the Governing Board after vetting a report by a verification Committee set up by the management.
The dismissal was contained in a statement signed by the Head of Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani in Minna.
The Nation gathered that the majority of the staff belonged to the junior cadre while few senior staff were affected.
According to the statement, the dismissal of the staff was as a result of a report submitted by a Committee constituted to verify the certificates of staff by the management of NECOIt was gathered that during the verification exercise, the Committee got in touch with the schools and institutions the affected staff claimed to have attended but the institutions denied certificating the affected staff.