A university don and computer expert, Professor Rasheed Gbenga Jimoh, has tasked the federal government to support the use of biometric technology in
Professor Rasheed, also recommended the use of fingerprint authentication in all educational processes within the university system to prevent cases of impersonation and campus insecurity.
He made the recommendations while delivering the 239th inaugural lecture of the University of Ilorin, on Thursday, at the main campus of the institution, titled ” Deconstructing The Crawling Mindsets: Combatting Security Challenges of Net-Centric Computing.” “Thus, crawling in the digital era when the rest of the world is moving at a very fast pace, can never be an acceptable option,” he declared.
He said sophisticated authentication methods should be encouraged to guarantee security of both card and card-less financial transactions, so as to prevent all associated financial frauds.
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