JAMB to Refund N4,000 to 2021 Candidates Who Didn't Complete Reg

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board announced on Monday that candidates who failed to finish the registration procedure for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry Examinations will receive an N4,000 refund.

The Board stated this in its most recent bulletin, which was made accessible to The PUNCH on Monday by Dr Fabian Benjamin, the Board’s director of media and public relations.

The bulletin partly reads, “This is to notify all 2021 candidates who had deposited a draft of four thousand naira (N4,000) for late registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry but were unable to complete the registration process owing to no fault of the Board, even after the Board had extended the registration period twice, to visit the Board’s Website https://www.jamb.gov.ng, and complete a form for the refund of the value of the draft they submitted to the Board.

“The above candidates are to click on the link 2021 UTME/DE Unregistered Candidates Bank Draft Recapture and fill in the spaces, after which they would key in the token sent to the phone numbers they had submitted during the submission of their drafts.

“It is this token that would be used to access a form on which they will fill in their account details to refund the value of the draft. Candidates are to provide these details within the next two weeks from the date of this publication.

“A text message containing OTP (one-time-password) has been sent to the affected candidates besides this notification.”