Why You Are Having Problems on Collecting your Certificate in UI and the Solution
It
is not funny at all that when alumni are ready to collect their certificates
from UI is when a lot of them find out that, for some weird reasons, the school
is unable to provide the certificate immediately. We understand that our
Nigerians schools have made it legit that your certificate cannot be ready upon
graduation, as you would have to wait for at least one year before your
certificate is produced, but what is difficult to understand is the school,
after one or two years or even more, telling you that your certificate was “omitted”
or was not printed. Even if schools cannot have your certificate ready as you
graduate, at the very least when you come back some years later for it, there
should be no reason at all why you cannot have your certificate—considering that
they issued you a Statement of Results (“To Whom”) upon graduation. It should
be that if you are able to get a Statement of Results that means you
have fulfilled everything needed for your certificate to be produced and for
you to be able to get your certificate when it’s produced. It is shameful to
come back to your school two or three years after graduation to collect your
certificate and they are telling you your certificate was “omitted” or not
printed, and that you would have to do this and that and submit this document
and that document before your certificate would be processed for printing (which
would take several months).
Another
bad case with collecting certificates is that some schools are of the habit of
insisting that only the owner of the certificate can come collect it; I understand
that security is the reason behind this (not wanting to give somebody’s
certificate to a wrong person), but I believe there are means to make sure the
owner of the certificate is aware of the person who wants to collect the
certificate for them and they authorize such activity. Considering that
certificates are not produced and given upon graduation, and it takes at least
one year for certificates to be ready for collection. Considering that most
graduates move far away from their school after graduation, it is ridiculous of
any school to then insist that the certificate can only be collected by the
owner—a person who have moved abroad and has no plan coming to Nigeria again
may never be able to get their certificate.
Going
back to UI and the unnecessary problems they create for alumni on collecting
their certificate, the image below (as drafted by the school) states a few of
the things you should do to get your certificate if you have found out that it wasn’t
printed or it was “omitted”. I hope you are able to push this through or you
find people who are willing to help you through the long journey. Be informed that all the documents listed on this postal must be provided before your cerficate can be processed (even when most people dont have the one on Number 3).
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