The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has urged candidates to beware of fraudsters who contact them with the promise of “upgrading” their results for a fee payable through mobile money transfers.
“The West African Examination Council wishes to alert its public to the activities of certain persons who introduce themselves as workers of WAEC and also claim to have access to its results database. (more…)
A carefully created summit that will bring together corporate Ghana and social media influencers to explore ways of helping each other to grow, has been scheduled to take place on 21st July 2018.
The maiden edition of the Social Influencers Summit is to help bridge the knowledge and skills gap in the budding Ghanaian influencer marketing industry.
Dash trading pairs have been added to eBitcoinics, significantly advancing Dash’s adoption prospects in Africa.
Based in Ghana, eBitcoinics is a cryptocurrency exchange serving several African countries, offering trading pairs for several major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin, as well as several minor coins such as SmartCash and Global Reserve Currency. Dash’s addition to this lineup was announced this week:
“With news of Dash been accepted in selected shops all over the country Ghana and Nigeria, where you can buy goods and pay with Dash. You also book for a hotel accommodation and pay with Dash at selected hotels in Accra, Tema, Tamale and spread all over Ghana.
Today we to announce to you that Dash (DASH) will be listed on the number one Cryptocurrency Exchange platform in Ghana and Nigeria eBitcoinics.com”
eBitcoinics currently offers trading pairs for the Ghanaian cedi and the Nigerian naira with a variety of payment options, including bank transfer, PayPal, and mobile money. The exchange is the top cryptocurrency exchange for Ghana and Nigeria, and an important and growing service in the region.
Integration solves a key liquidity problem in Ghana
The addition of Dash to the eBitcoinics platform fills an important liquidity need in the region, for Ghana in particular. Local demand in Ghana for purchasing Dash has far exceeded the available supply, stunting adoption efforts in the region. According to Dash African lead ambassador Mahamadu Abdul Salam, this problem will be greatly lessened with the new integration:
“This means a big win for Dash adoption in Ghana, the long awaited solution to Dash liquidity in the country is solved now and people can buy and sell/swap fiat and fiat for Dash freely and easily on eBitcoinics. The exchange is by far the number one cryptocurrency exchange not only in Ghana but Nigeria as well with multiple means of payment in a buying order such as mobile money, Bank payments and PayPal.”
Ghana stands as one of the areas in Africa with the strongest Dash adoption. At present, DiscoverDash lists nine businesses in the country that accept Dash, most in the northern Tamale area or in the capital of Accra. Solving the liquidity issue promises to streamline adoption efforts.
Funds for the integration were crowdfunded by the Dash community
The integration into the eBitcoinics exchange was funded by Dash itself. However, unlike many integrations funded by either treasury proposal or through the Core team’s business development department, this was crowdfunded by the community. Abdul Salam sees this as a fast and efficient way of raising funds without having to go through more established channels:
“The crowdfunding of the integration fee outside the treasury is by far the fastest and easier way of raising funds within the Dash community by my experience. It tells me the Dash community is committed to championing causes that promote global adoption. In an overnight after the Dash community angel investors got back from holidays, 13 Dash was raised to make the integration happen. This is beautiful and reinforces that the Dash community aside its treasury systems have workable systems in place to make things that matter most to the network happen such as this.”
At the time of writing, the Dash price is around $250, yielding approximately $1.5 million monthly from the treasury. This is down from around $10 million at the end of last year, resulting in tighter budgets and more exploration of alternative funding methods.
Posted by Joël Valenzuela.
For a lot of Ghanaians, 1st July is Republic Day and just that.
However, Vodafone Ghana seems to just concentrate on their 10th Anniversary and reward their customers with 10 hours of free calls.
You remember a few days ago, Vodafone gave 2 hours of free calls and said a big surprise was coming on the 1st of July. (more…)
The MTN Apps Challenge has become one of the standing app challenges most developers in Ghana look forward to, each year.
This year’s MTN Apps Challenge V5.0 event received participants from Senior High Schools, Tertiary Institutions and freelancers who submitted projects in the categories of mobile apps, Internet of Things (IoT), and animated videos. (more…)
Infinix Note 5, the latest addition to the flagship Infinix Note series is being rumoured for release on June 24th. Boasting advanced technology and exciting new features, the new release will have the potential to give its competitors a real challenge.
The Note 5 is expected to maintain its history of bringing something extra to the market. Offering a plethora of new and upgraded features, it is heard that the phone will provide a full HD+ display based on an 18:9 screen ratio. (more…)
When it comes to freelancing in Ghana, only a handful of homegrown solutions are on the market. A lot of people resort to sites like UpWork which have not been carefully crafted for the Ghanaian.
There are the other groups of people, who actually freelance, but don’t even call it as “freelancing”.
Yes, freelancing in Ghana is somewhat sketchy. If you are self-employed, providing services for some different number of clients and getting paid, usually in the short run, you are most likely freelancing.
CodeXtra was developed by a Ghanaian tech person and App developer, Ebenezer Narh-ngwah to connect persons in the IT space – Employers and Freelancers.
For freelancers in the IT Space, CodeXtra gets you connected with potential clients and exposes your freelancing business with ease. Freelancers have the chance to showcase their portfolio and there is the wonderful option for more than one freelancer to connect and work together on a single project.
And for Employers who need the services of these freelancers, you can use the CodeXtra Platform to find and select the best candidates for your project.
Some popular requests from employers on the CodeXtra platform are the app and website development, Corporate and Personal Logo design as well as other Graphic Designing work and the designing and development of software applications.
Payment for services is not done on the app. Rather, employer and freelancer bargain and the payment is made through their agreed means. This means that if agreed on, you could be making payments to the freelancers via means like Mobile Money.
Hire, Connect and Share your experience with Freelancers in Africa by downloading the CodeXtra App from the google play store! Get the free app: https://goo.gl/g6wEQv
The app currently has a 4.6 rating on the Google Play Store.
When you download and use the app, don’t forget to rate and share your experience here with us.
Love, a great feeling and a state of mind. Some people say the only one happiness in this life is to love and be loved by the right people.
Last year, I witnessed one great expression of love (from a tech perspective). It was a proposal in VR. To me, it’s just about one of those nice things that could ever happen.
So when I came by this thread on one WhatsApp group that I was in, well, I wasn’t very surprised but again, I thought It was interesting and nice.
To propose to someone via what you do – in this case, web development.
So yeah, his name is Alfred R. Bennett, but we call him Alfie Reigns inside the WhatsApp group we both belong to. And what did he do? He set up a whole website to propose to who he describes as the love of his life.
You can check out the site here: https://vanessamylove.com
Apparently, Alfie designed this full fluid website, to propose to his girlfriend, and just that. Well, love does have a lot of impact on people, so much that someone buys a domain, designs a site, installs SSL on it, and hosts it just to propose.
Alfie, I would describe as a tech enthusiast, much like me and it has been interesting to listen to his discussions on Joy FM most Tuesday evenings. I never saw his “love side” and I would say Vanessa is lucky to have someone who dedicates his time to show love in this way.
So yes, I checked out the site. It’s worth noting that the site design is beautiful and responsive. The content of the Website is mainly photos and love notes.
There is also a section where there is a representation of their “Love Timelines” and some statistics. Seriously, I don’t know how those numbers came about, but it does seem like they spend a lot of time together.
I also checked out the codes on the site (disappointed it wasn’t on WordPress, I’m a bit of a WordPress evangelist but maybe he wanted to do “everything”). The site is mainly HTML5 and jQuery with fonts from the Google API.
Well done Alfred. More Vim and More Enjoyment with your queen.
Oh, did I mention that Nessa accepted and the countdown on the website represents how long till their wedding date? Well, there you go. Congrats Alfie & Nessa.
Alfred has been a friend for a while now. He’s into Cyber Security, Web Development and General IT support. You can reach him on 0547614915.
Over the last days, one issue that has come up in the comments section of NABCO related posts on Mfidie.com is that of how to change an Interview date.
As there was no way of doing that, at the time, we continually maintained that “there is currently no way to change the interview date once booked”.
It was a big deal to change the interview date for a lot of people (and it is still a big deal). One particularly worried visitor posted a question asking whether interviews would be carried out on weekends.
Well, we have the answer to that. We can confirm via the NABCO Website (see screenshot below) that interviews would not be carried out on weekends and holidays. (more…)
After their merger last year, Airtel and Tigo are slowly integrating their network and services slowly to give their subscribers a seamless experience.
AirtelTigo is currently undergoing a network upgrade to combine their network assets (that’s between the old Airtel and the old TiGO).
A statement from the telco read: “The network upgrade is to combine network assets between former Airtel and Tigo to become one big network to provide customers with wider coverage, fast internet experience and superior voice quality.” (more…)