{
  "id": 5236009,
  "title": "TRCN Warns Teachers, Applicants Against Fake Portals",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/trcn-warns-teachers-applicants-against-fake-portals",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-03T03:32:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/09/03/trcn-warns-teachers-applicants-against-fake-portals-2/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has issued a warning to teachers, school owners, and prospective applicants against falling victim to fraudulent activities involving the use of the council’s name and identity for defrauding the public. TRCN has specifically denied authorising any individual or third party to collect money or process registration, certification, licensing, employment, or promotion outside its approved procedures and official channels. The council emphasised that its official website is the only approved online platform for information on its programmes and services, and certificates or licences obtained through unofficial processes are fake and invalid. TRCN urged the public to disregard unverified information circulated through social media, WhatsApp, emails, and suspicious websites, and advised anyone who has already made payments or received suspicious communication to report the matter to security agencies and notify the council.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}