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FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
PRESS RELEASE
8 SEPTEMBER 2026
FG AUTOMATES ACADEMIC CERTIFICATE VERIFICATION, ELIMINATES PHYSICAL VISITS TO EDUCATION MINISTRY
The Federal Ministry of Education has announced the full automation of academic certificate evaluation and authentication, eliminating the need for applicants to visit the Ministry physically.
The Honourable Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa, CON, said the initiative is a major step in the Federal Government’s digital transformation agenda and aligns with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
Under the new system, applicants can complete the entire credential evaluation and authentication process online through the Ministry’s dedicated platform. The reform is designed to reduce bureaucratic bottlenecks, accelerate processing, improve transparency and provide more convenient services to Nigerians and applicants within and outside the country.
Dr. Alausa explained that the initiative will strengthen the integrity and credibility of Nigeria’s academic certification system while enabling institutions, employers and other stakeholders to verify qualifications through a more structured and reliable process.
The Minister reaffirmed the Ministry’s commitment to using technology to modernise education governance, improve institutional efficiency and deliver citizen-centred services.
Applicants are advised to use the official credential evaluation and authentication platform at https://t.co/PHXGEDUIIl and direct enquiries to [email protected].
Boriowo Folasade
Director, Press and Public Relations
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed concern over the growing hardship facing Nigerians, noting that some citizens are being pushed to extreme measures, including selling their kidneys just to survive.
@jaydee0501@atiku And you are more poorer than I am, cos you care much about the person that doesn’t give a F about you and your family. Think about it.
I have heard disturbing stories about the extent to which young Nigerians are being driven simply to survive. Perhaps the most horrifying are the growing reports of young people selling parts of their bodies: kidneys in particular, in desperate attempts to raise money.
Young people should be selling dreams, ideas and innovation, not their body organs.
Yet when the cost-of-living crisis becomes unbearable, desperation begins to make the unthinkable appear like an option. That should offend the conscience of every Nigerian.
In Tinubu’s Nigeria, almost everything required to live with dignity is becoming more expensive by the day: food, transport, rent, school fees, medicine and electricity.
Yet young Nigerians are reportedly being driven to sell their kidneys for as little as ₦1.7 million.
That should break the heart of a nation.
Young Nigerians should be building careers, starting businesses, raising families and pursuing their dreams, not calculating how much parts of their bodies can fetch simply to stay alive.
When young Nigerians begin to see their kidneys as emergency savings, we are no longer talking about ordinary economic hardship.
We are talking about desperation at its most frightening.
Nigeria already has laws prohibiting commercial organ sales and organ trafficking. But laws alone cannot cure the poverty and desperation that make vulnerable young people easy prey for criminal networks.
No government should celebrate “reforms” while young Nigerians are being reduced to selling parts of themselves to eat, pay rent, settle school fees or survive.
Economic reform must have a human face. It must mean affordable food, cheaper transportation, accessible healthcare, decent jobs and renewed hope for the next generation.
Our young people should be selling their ideas, talents and innovation to the world and not their kidneys for ₦1.7 million just to survive at home.
This is the human cost of Nigeria’s cost-of-living crisis.
Tinubu made Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again. -AA