TRCN uncovers 250 pretend certificates throughout lecturers’ recruitment train

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By Linda Ikeji
13 November 2026, 7:12 am

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria has uncovered 250 pretend instructing certificates throughout a recruitment train.

The Chief Executive and Registrar of TRCN, Dr Ronke Soyombo, disclosed this whereas monitoring the continued computer-based Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) at Redeemer’s TEAP International School, Abuja, on Thursday, November 12.

She revealed that the council made the invention throughout a recruitment course of during which an unidentified state sought to make use of about 1,000 lecturers.

To fight the unfold of faux certificates, she defined that TRCN now points certificates embedded with QR codes that hyperlink employers on to the council’s portal for immediate authentication earlier than recruitment.

She added that the council had additionally tightened examination integrity by deploying randomised, qualification-differentiated questions in order that PhD, first-degree and Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) holders sitting beside each other couldn’t interact in malpractice.

Soyombo stated that the Federal Government has additionally set a strict deadline to make sure that 75 per cent of lecturers have been licensed by the top of 2026 and 100 per cent have been licensed earlier than coming into any classroom by December 2027.

The registrar harassed {that a} first-class diploma alone didn’t qualify a person to show with out confirmed competence in pedagogy, youngster safeguarding and digital literacy.

Soyombo additionally disclosed that earlier PQE assessments uncovered widespread weaknesses in arithmetic amongst lecturers nationwide, prompting the council to design focused coaching interventions with related schooling companies.

Soyombo urged candidates to shun malpractice and fraudulent shortcuts.