First Bank Instant Airtime recharge

Posted by Felix Okoli on Tuesday March 17, 2015 at 21:45:59:

First Bank of Nigeria, truly the first bank in Nigeria has launched their own instant airtime top-up service to her customers and this appears to be the fastest way to load airtime topup in Nigeria.

To load airtime instantly to your GSM powered mobile phone as a First Bank customer, you just need to dial the USSD code *894*amount# and the airtime amount requested will be loaded.

Let's say you want to load an airtime credit of 1000 Naira to your GSM sim, you just need to dial the USSD code *894*1000# and the airtime value will be loaded instantly.

Are there any charges or fees for using this service? Well, nothing significant other than about N4 charge I noticed that will be deducted from your existing balance for the USSD code you dialed. So, I guess you need to at least have N4 in your balance before being able to access this service.

What I like about this service is that there is no need to visit your bank to register for it but as long as you are already an existing bank customer and your phone is already registered with your bank, you can easily access this service without the need to keep scratching recharge cards.

With First bank's instant airtime topup or recharge service, you don't need to buy airtime from vendors or even an ATM but you can do this from the comfort of your home or office.

If you are a first bank customer in Nigeria, you need to stop entering recharge card PINs or buying them from the web as you could just dial *894*amount# to load any airtime value that you want. The airtime credit is normally loaded by the Virtual top up service offered by your network and your balance will be credited while your First bank account gets debited with the exact value, no extra charges. I think this is a good green initiative as it no longer needs paper for recharge cards.

I have to say that the instant airtime topup service that operates via USSD by Nigerian banks is the fastest way to load airtime for now in Nigeria.

Comments:

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by Yetunde on Thursday April 9, 2015 at 19:42:10:

pls have tried recharging my phone directly several times but all efforts proved abortive. I tried it with d same line I usually receive account notification on.

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by muritala on Monday April 13, 2015 at 20:57:16:

i like this frist bank

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by esther on Tuesday April 21, 2015 at 15:27:57:

how can i transfer to other sim and buy for other network too

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by abiodun olabisi on Thursday April 30, 2015 at 24:15:22:

its really not working for me.

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by Olamide isaac on Friday May 1, 2015 at 13:49:31:

Hello yet, maybe you are trying it from unregistered number with the bank cos its working

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by kells on Thursday May 7, 2015 at 13:24:17:

it keeps telling me to try again

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by Kenny on Saturday May 9, 2015 at 18:51:22:

I dont no d pin 2 put for top up 4 others

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by hudu abdullahi abdullahi on Friday May 22, 2015 at 8:33:35:

please what is the purpose of deducting N4 for the transaction? while other banks like Gtbank is free of charge. really it's not fair

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by Felix Okoli on Friday May 22, 2015 at 8:33:35:

The N4 I think they deduct is not from your bank but from your gsm network and it's for sending that USSD request. It's the same for gtbank and others too that use the ussd service.

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by Abdul Ahmeed Jumat on Saturday June 13, 2015 at 17:58:34:

It's a lie,I uses both GT and First bank and GT does not deduct any money for the service,not fair from First bank.

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by mark on Thursday June 18, 2015 at 10:12:13:

i have 2 accounts tied to my number, current and savings. wat do i do cos its nt workimg for me

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by Gbaduo Chinwe on Sunday June 21, 2015 at 11:25:54:

I've tried to load airtime through this process, but its not working for me.

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by GARBA on Thursday July 2, 2015 at 22:20:44:

IT CANT BE DONE IN MY TECHNO MOBLE PHONE WHY

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by Goodness on Sunday August 23, 2015 at 17:20:37:

Pls this top up airtime recharge is not working for me.

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by Olayinka Luqmon on Tuesday August 25, 2015 at 11:41:36:

I ve been tried this service for Long time ago but it yet to work. Also how to recharge other phone number other than the one i used to register or open account at Firstbank. Thanks

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by Joshua on Wednesday September 23, 2015 at 9:54:24:

It keep telling me to try again later

Re: First Bank Instant Airtime recharge Reply by Amalia on Tuesday December 8, 2015 at 13:1:46:

Wow dats kind of them,to me I like it.

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