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Hope PSBank Partners JAMB on E-pin Purchase
Hope PSBank has partnered with the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in a deal that will help prospective candidates for the upcoming 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, to purchase the e-pin on the bank’s platform, by visiting the bank’s website or its agents.
Giving details of the initiative in a statement, its Group Head, Corporate Services, Cletus Igah, said to purchase the e-pin, candidates are expected to visit Hope PSBank’s website or Mobile App: select payments, select account to debit, select education, select Jamb, select E-pin DE or UTME, enter profile code and authorise with their transaction PIN. The transaction will be approved and an e-pin will be generated. The e-pin generated can be used on the JAMB website.
The profile code, Igah said, could be retrieved via SMS by sending candidates National Identification Number (NIN) details to 55019 in the following format; NIN space NIN number.
Prospective candidates who have not registered for the NIN, which is mandatory for the UTME, can have this done by visiting the Hope PSBank website.select NIN Registration and fill the registration form then proceed to any Hope PSBank NIN Enrolment Center spread across the country for data capturing, Igah said.
This, Igah added, would eliminate the need to visit multiple centres to register for NIN and purchase JAMB e-pins.
Igah further said that candidates who have their NIN could visit any Hope PSBank agent and make payment for the JAMB e-pin or pay directly via Hope PSBank Digital App or Internet Banking. The e-Pin purchase portal is expected to close on Friday 10th of May.
“Hope PSBank, Nigeria’s premier digital bank is dedicated to providing innovative solutions that cut across the financial market and also provide access to financial services via digital platforms to all cadres of Nigerians,” Igah stated.
Since its inception in 2019, Hope Payment Service Bank, Nigeria’s premier digital bank has continually set the pace for driving financial inclusion, digital economy, and the cashless policy by providing innovative digital banking services.

Why JAMB has rogue centres nationwide -Oloyede
The registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, has said the board has some rogues centres across the country.
Oloyede on Wednesday while monitoring the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations registration in Lagos said the rogue centres were created so as to apprehend and disqualify cheating candidates.
He said, “We have seen parents pay someone to write exams. We disqualify the candidate when they are caught.
“To catch a rogue you may need to pretend that you are one too.
We also opened rogue centres where we asked them to pay N15,000 if they want their marks to be upgraded. Once you submit your number we will collect your N15000 and disqualify you.”
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He also condemned the unscrupulous acts of some schools who were charging above N4,700 for the purchase and registration fee of UTME.
Oloyede cautioned prospective candidates not to pay more than N4,700 for the purchase and registration of UTME, adding that any CBT centre which charged more than N700 would be discredited
“JAMB is collecting N3,500 but most of these schools charge more. All these elites schools, that is what they do. We have informed the ministry. I will write again to the Federal Ministry of Education to sanction these schools.
“The president has already reduced the cost of UTME to N3500, N500 for a book and N700 for registration at CBT centres.
“We will discredit any CBT centre that collects more than N700.00,” he said.

Profile codes: UTME candidates will get refund for unsuccessful requests – JAMB
Candidates who could not generate profile codes to register for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) because of poor or network failure from telecommunication service providers will get a refund, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said.
The board said this doesn’t apply to candidates who entered the wrong code while trying to generate their profile codes for registration.
There had been outcry from parents of applicants for this year’s UTME because they could not create their profile codes despite being charged for the service.
Each Short Message Service (SMS) costs N50 for request made by UTME applicants on the major telecoms service providers.
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Registrar of JAMB, Prof Is – haq Oloyede, after a meeting with stakeholders on Monday at the headquarters of the board in Bwari, said the service providers and JAMB agreed on refund to candidates who couldn’t access the service by telcos.
He lamented that parents were being extorted by telecoms service providers by sending request unsuccessfully to the telcos.
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The registrar said the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPP) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have been drafted in to monitor compliance with the agreement to refund the candidates their money.
He said: “All those concerned will have to go back and ensure that when a service is not fully rendered and if there had been any charge that had been made this should be refunded to the candidates.
“We have reached this agreement with Digital Pulse that we will work with the service providers to make sure that the service providers refund where they have taken money from candidates.
“I have a parent who said she sent the message (to create a profile) 500 times; the message was not going, the service was not delivered and N50 was being deducted. This is the general outcry from across the country and that is one of the reasons we called this meeting.
“And the first thing is that any such money be refunded but because JAMB do not have the capacity to know whether this is refunded or not; we are not in position to know whether the money has been refunded or not.
“We then decided that we are going to expand the stakeholders – that our stakeholders should include Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.
“We will immediately invite them to join this task force of ours on this registration and examination so that any act of extortion they have the capacity to deal with any stakeholder that decides to extort candidates. The second one is to invite NCC.
“NCC is the regulatory body for all these telcos. Even if they give us assurance and it is not followed, we do not have the capacity to enforce. That is why we believe the NCC that has the statutory responsibility to enforce should also be brought in as part of our stakeholders.”
The registrar said by Friday, candidates will have the option of using the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data to generate their profile codes to them register for the examinations.
He also said even if candidates enter the wrong codes, it will be accepted after Friday this week.
“The resolution we adopted at the meeting is that the service providers should go back; between now and Friday, make the system accept such errors. Anytime from Friday even if they make the error it will go.
“These common errors – from Friday, even if candidates make them, be system will accommodate them and it will go,” he added.