The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), says it has concluded arrangements to digitise its examination process and overhaul the ICT infrastructure.
Muhammed Aminu Mohammed, NABTEB Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, stated this in a statement issued on Sunday in Benin, by Uchechukwu Olisah, the Board’s Assistant Director, Media and Protocol.
He noted that the arrangement was in partnership with the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI).
According to Mohammed, the collaboration was reached on April 29, 2025, during a meeting with representatives of NASENI, who were at the Board’s Headquarters, in Benin City.
The NABTEB boss further explained that the upgrade would help the Agency to streamline its operations, improve exam security, and align with federal directives to fully digitise exams by 2026.
This, he said, would minimise human errors, reduce processing time and enhance the overall efficiency of operations.
“NABTEB, as a foremost national examination body saddled with the responsibility for registration, question paper development, distribution, conduct of crafts and master crafts as well as modular trade examinations, marking of scripts, result processing and award of certificates, needs an ICT infrastructure capable of delivering on its mandate.
“The strengthening of the Board’s ICT capabilities is even more paramount, given the Honourable Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Olatunji Alausa’s unwavering commitment to functional education.
“Part of this includes the Minister’s noble drive to ensure the success of the administration’s directive to examination bodies to be fully digitised by mounting Computer Based Test (CBT) from 2026 in line with President Bola Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda,” he said.
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The NABTEB Registrar recounted his earlier meeting with the Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NASENI, Khalil Halilu, in Abuja, where he had pledged the intervention of the agency by helping NABTEB set-up a digital ICT department.
He commended Halilu for assiduously working to make good on his support by promising to deliver to NABTEB a new ICT building with the accompanying ICT infrastructure within the next six months.
He expressed optimism that NASENI would provide the board with world-class infrastructure that will support it to maintain integrity, efficiency and relevance of its examinations in the digital age.
In his address, Bashir Aliyu, Special Adviser to the Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI on Emerging Technology, assured the board that agency would support and help it in the digitisation of its examinations processes.
“We are here to support you. We are here to help you in digitization. We did it in NASENI. This is the way to go, to help you leapfrog by being reliant on ICT,” Aliyu was quoted saying this.
