OAU’s New Hi-Tech Certificate for Alumni of 2024 till
Date
If
you are an alumnus of OAU with graduation class of 2024 and you have already
collected your certificate, the school will sooner or later call you to return the certificate
you have collected, in exchange for a new one. If you have not collected your
certificate and you recently have been trying to, but it has not been possible
for you, it’s not because you have a problem, it’s because your set got
classified with the 2025 set, and the 2025 set is getting a new kind of certificate—which
you will be getting with them. Stay with me, you will understand me soon.
I
believe OAU decided to join the likes of UNILORIN and UNILAG in producing
hi-tech certificates for their graduates, and they decided to commence that
with the 2025 set. But because only a small portion of the 2024 set
certificates have been produced, and only a very small number of them have been
issued out, they decided to add the 2024 set to the set to enjoy the hi-tech
certificate too. So, for now, the release of 2024 set certificates has been
stopped, with the aim to continue giving them out when the new hi-tech
certificates are ready. Like I have said, the school may announce that you return
your certificate if you belong with the 2024 set and you have collected the (old
type of) certificate, this is so that they would be able to give you the new
hi-tech one—which is also the one the 2025 set forward will be collecting.
Now,
what is this hi-tech hi-tech certificate we are shouting up and down? The
school didn’t name it that, I did… cos why not (LOL). If you are familiar with UNILAG
and UNILORIN certificates, and I think LASU’s too, you’d notice they are not
just thick white/yellow/brown papers with a lot of things written on them in
black; they have different types of technologies on them to make fabrication of
the documents harder… not impossible, but harder (we all know so long it’s
humans producing a thing, fabrication is possible). So, the new OAU certificate,
rumours say, it will carry some holograms—maybe one or two different types of
holograms, and each will carry its unique QR code. I don’t care much about the
hologram—it cannot stop fabrication, I only care about the QR code.
If
each certificate carries a customised QR code, apart from the fact that this
would render so many fake certificates useless (unless it’s not scanned by the person
you are tendering your fake certificate to), it would also make verification of
certificates easier, and instant; I mean no need for anyone or any institution to
contact OAU to verify the genuineness of a certificate that carries its own QR code, the body could just scan the QR code on the certificate and they would
be re-directed to OAU’s verification portal, and everything about the alumni
would show, including their unofficial transcript… or official transcript
even, depending on how secure the verification portal is. This would eliminate
having to fill forms at the school and running around the school’s Senate to
get your verification request responded to by the Exams and Records anytime a body
sends a request for verification to the school in your name. It will also save time wasted waiting on paving your trancript processed and sent to you or your receiver. So for people with
genuine certificate, this QR code thing would be a good thing for them, but for
people walking around with fake certificate, if this QR code system goes around and reaches all sets, and it actually functions the way I think it
should, this should be a bad news for them… they must
up their game
or get caught.
