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If you are a night owl like myself then you know there is nothing more fun than surfing the internet at night.

Although this sounds interesting, one of the worst things that could happen to you is running out of data bundle in the middle of the night.

Lucky enough for you if you have airtime or money in your mobile money wallet; other than that, you are doomed. Because, where are you going to get airtime in the middle of the night?

On the bright side, there is a special bundle that is made for night owls like yourself and me. This bundle is not only ideal for night owls but also comes with good data bundle bundles at a very cheap cost.

What Is MTN Midnight Bundle?

The MTN Midnight Bundle is a special type of data bundle that has been provided to MTN users to enjoy browsing the internet at a relatively cheaper cost.

As the name suggests, this bundle works only at midnight; it starts at 12:00 midnight and ends at 5:00 am. Interestingly, this bundle does not expire, therefore if you are not able to exhaust your package, you can always use it when you have the time.

What Are The Prices and Packages of The MTN Midnight Bundle?

Just like all data bundles, the cost of the MTN midnight data bundle depends on the size of data you want. Below are some of the standard prices:

• GHS 1 = 2.87GB
• GHS 1.99 = 5.72GB
• GHS 2.00 = 5.74GB

Finally, there is this special hack that I have for you as a Christmas gift. When you are entering the amount you want to buy, enter GHS 2.99 and you will get 8.59GB.

Who Can Subscribe For The MTN Midnight Bundle?

The MTN midnight bundle is available for all registered MTN users. Simply put, as long as you have a registered MTN SIM that is functioning properly, you are good to go.

Also, you buy this type of bundle using both airtime and MTN mobile money.

How To Subscribe For MTN Midnight Bundle

Enough of the plenty talk, lets jump right into the main reason for writing this article. Once you have enough airtime or money on your phone, you can follow the steps listed below to subscribe for the MTN Midnight bundle.

How To Buy MTN Midnight Bundle Using Airtime

1. Dial *138# on your phone.
2. Select option 2 (Midnight Bundle).
3. Select option 1 (Buy for Self) if you are buying for yourself or 2 (Buy for others) if you buying for someone.
4. Choose option 1 (Flexi).
5. Enter the amount you will like to buy (between 0.1 – 2.99).
6. Details of the bundle you chose will be displayed, one they match what you chose, select option 1.
7. Choose option 1 (Airtime).
8. Once the transaction goes through successfully, a confirmation message will be sent to you via SMS.

How To Buy MTN Midnight Bundle Using MTN Mobile Money (MoMo)

1. Dial *138# on your phone.
2. Select option 2 (Midnight Bundle).
3. Select option 1 (Buy for Self) if you are buying for yourself or 2 (Buy for others) if you buying for someone.
4. Choose option 1 (Flexi).
5. Enter the amount you will like to buy (between 0.1 – 2.99).
6. Details of the bundle you chose will be displayed, one they match what you chose, select option 1.
7. Choose option 2 (Mobile Money).
8. You’ll receive a  prompt to confirm your purchase. Enter your four (4) digit Mobile Money PIN and then choose option1 to confirm your purchase.
9. Upon successful completion, a confirmation message will be sent to you via SMS.

Can You Use MTN Midnight Bundle During The Day?

The question about whether it is possible to use your midnight bundle during the day has been asked by a lot of people. The answer to this question is YES; there is a way you can use your midnight bundle during the day.

But, this basically depends on the device you use and your luck. This is because some people try and it works perfectly but others try and it doesn’t.

How To Use Your MTN Midnight Bundle During The Day

To do this;

1. First of all, you need to turn off automatic time update or Use Network Provider Time (depending on your device) in your settings.
2. Once you have done that, you then change your time to 12:15 am.
3. After that, restart your phone to see if the changes you made have been applied successfully.
4. If it has, you can now enjoy your MTN Midnight Bundle during the day.

NOTE: THIS METHOD MIGHT WORK OR MIGHT NOT WORK.

What Are The Benefits Of Buying MTN Midnight Bundle?

To wrap up, I would like to share a few of the numerous benefits you enjoy from the MTN Midnight Bundle.

You enjoy huge internet data for a very cheap price.

You have enough data to stream and download your movies, songs, books, applications, etc.

You enjoy fast internet speed due to the low number of active users, and a whole lot of other benefits.

With all these, you can now see that the midnight bundle is one of the cheapest and best internet data packages available for MTN users. Make good use of it and have fun surfing the internet at midnight.

WhatsApp backup is one of the most important things every WhatsApp users need to do. But why is that so? Let’s keep that question, for now, we discuss it later.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, such as loosing of phones, mobile phone faults, and others, it is always ideal to have a backup.

A backup is a copy of the data on a computer or device so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.

So basically, a WhatsApp backup is a copy of your WhatsApp data that is used to restore your WhatsApp after you lose your data or mobile phone.

These include media, messages, and some WhatsApp settings that were used on the previous device. Now, you know the answer to the question I asked in the introduction; Why is Backup important?

Similar to iPhone users who can back up their WhatsApp data to iCloud, Android devices can also backup their WhatsApp to Google Drive. As a result, you always a copy of your WhatsApp data on your Google Drive account.

What Do You Need Before You Can Backup Your WhatsApp Messages To Google Drive

Before you can backup your WhatsApp, you’ll need the following:

• Google account activated on your device.
• Google Play services installed on your device. Google Play service is an app that is used to update Google apps and apps from Google Play Store.
• Also, you need enough space on your device to create the backup.
• Finally, you need a strong and stable internet connection.

How To Backup All Your WhatsApp Messages To Google Drive

There are two main ways you can backup your WhatsApp messages to Google Drive and these are:

1. How to backup all your messages to Google Drive automatically, and
2. How to backup all your messages to Google Drive manually.

How To Backup All Your Messages To Google Drive Automatically

Once your device meets all the requirements, follow the steps below:

1. Open WhatsApp on your phone.
2. Tap More options (the three dots) > Settings > Chats > Chat backup > Back up to Google Drive.
3. Choose your preferred backup frequency (Daily, Weekly, Monthly).
4. From the list of Google accounts listed, chose the one you’d like to back up your WhatsApp data.
5. Tap Back up over to choose the network you’d like to use for backups.
6. After that, WhatsApp will automatically back up on the chosen frequency.

How To Backup All Your Messages To Google Drive Automatically

1. Open WhatsApp on your phone.
2. Tap More options (the three dots) > Settings > Chats > Chat backup > BACK UP.

Conclusion

In this guide, I have shown you how you can easily backup your WhatsApp messages to Google Drive.

Once you follow the steps listed carefully, you will be able to do that. But, if you come across any challenge feel free to write it in the comments section below and I will attend to you as soon as possible.

Have you forgotten your TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number)? Or do you need to recover your TIN for something important as soon as possible?

There’s no need to worry, I am going to show you how you can recover your TIN online in Ghana in less than 24 hours.

What is a TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number)?

TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) is a unique number issued to individuals, institutions, or companies to identify them as registered Ghanaian taxpayers.

Once you apply for a TIN in Ghana and you become a registered taxpayer with Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), you will now be able to register a vehicle, register a company, etc.

Currently, before you can even open a bank account with some banks, you need to have a TIN before you can proceed. This was as a result of the government announcing that all forms of allowances need to be taxed.

How To Recover Your TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) Online in Ghana

Once you lose your TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) you will need to recover it. Since the TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) is issued by only the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), they are only the only company that can help you recover it.

NOTE: Do not be fooled by any third–party that claims to recover TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) for you at a fee.

There are several ways you can recover your TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) online in Ghana. These are:

• How to recover your TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) online in Ghana via WhatsApp, and
• How to recover your TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) online in Ghana via email.

Now let’s look at each of the ways you can recover your TIN online in Ghana.

How to recover your TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) online in Ghana via WhatsApp

1. Open WhatsApp on your phone, iPad, tablet, or any device you want to use.
2. Start a chat with the official Ghana Revenue Authority (0200631664, or 0552990000) explaining the reason for sending them the message.
3. Send the following details to the number stated above:

• Full name
• Date of birth
• Mother’s maiden name
• The type of ID you used to register your TIN and the ID number

5. GRA will review the submitted information and recover your TIN for you in a few hours.

How to recover your TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) online in Ghana via email

1. Submit the following information to [email protected]:

• Full name
• Date of birth
• Mother’s maiden name
• The type of ID you used to register your TIN and the ID number

2. Use “TIN Recovery” as the subject for the email.
3. GRA will review the submitted information and recover your TIN for you as soon as possible.

SD (Solid State Digital) cards are astounding bits of technology. Especially when it comes to the little, fingernail-sized Micro versions. These little cards can contain tens, hundreds and even thousands of gigabytes of data!

Unfortunately, the little size of SD cards comes with a price. Not only can SD cards be fragile and simple to lose, but they even have a horrible tendency to halt working or offer corrupted versions of your data.

If that’s happened to you, let’s check out the way to recover data from a damaged SD card.

Is My SD Card Corrupted?

Before we glance at recovering a corrupted SD card, let’s quickly point out the symptoms that indicate that your SD card is really corrupted at the first place.

Here are some common signs that your SD card has been corrupted:

• You can see the files on the card, but can’t read and/or write to them
• The SD card shows up as empty, even though you know there are files there
• You can see files such as photos, but when you open them they are corrupted
• Copying from the card shows an impossible completion time, usually ending in copy failure
• The Windows 10 Disk Management Tool shows the drive but says it’s empty or unreadable

If that’s the behavior you’re seeing, chances are high that your data has become corrupt or the SD card itself is in trouble.

Basic Diagnostics

Before attempting data recovery or doing something drastic like formatting the SD card, there are a couple of basic diagnostic steps you ought to go for so that you recognize which device is truly the problem.

• Try the SD card in another device
• Try a known working SD card within the same device
• Try reading the SD card with a special reader
• Try reading the SD card via the first device employing a cable

If the problem is indeed the SD card, then read on for further advice.

SD Card Issues Vs Corrupted Writes

It’s entirely possible that your SD card is simply fine, but that the device that reads and writes data from the memory messed up somehow. Maybe it lost power while writing or there’s another problem with it.

In these cases, after you’ve recovered what data you’ll be able to, you’ll be able to simply reformat the card to make it usable.

Fake SD Cards

If this is a brand new SD card or one that you’ve never really filled up before. There’s an opportunity that you’ve actually bought a fake SD card. “Fake” in the sense that the capacity you were sold isn’t what’s actually on the memory card.

Fake SD cards are a plague of recent technology. Since small capacity SD cards are so cheap but larger ones are persistently costlier, scammers create cards that report false capacities. So, for instance, your “128GB” SD card might only have 16 GB of actual capacity.

What happens is that when that 16GB SD card fills up, the cardboard just starts overwriting the primary data in a loop.

This can actually fool us for an extended time since we’re likely to examine only the most recent files we’ve saved or may not reach the utmost capacity of the real SD size for quite a while.

If you think that your SD card is fake instead of corrupted, try using one of the various fake SD card testers available for download. FakeFlashTest is one popular solution which will tell you if your SD card is simply broken or actually counterfeit.

Use a Disk Checker Tool

Sometimes it’s not your actual SD card or data that’s gone corrupt, but something about the card’s file system. Simply using the disk checker tool in your OS can recover data from a corrupted SD card. Windows 10 users can follow the below steps:

• Open Windows Explorer
• Right-click on the drive in question
• Click on Properties
• Select Tool
• Click on Check
• Follow the next instructions

If your actual data isn’t damaged and therefore the SD card is physically fine, the disk checker will rebuild its logical structure and therefore the disk should be usable again.

If the card isn’t working properly, the disk checker will prompt you.

Using Specialized Recovery Software

If none of your DIY diagnostics yields any results and therefore the SD card still displays once you insert it, then think about using specialized SD card data recovery software.

These software packages go round the limitations of the typical drive management standards and examine the SD card bit-by-bit using brute force methods.

Sometimes you’ll recover corrupted data fully by this manner or a minimum of recovery of files of your data partially Which is best than losing all of it.

However, these programs can’t perform the duties of “God”. If the data has been physically destroyed or can’t be accessed the least bit, then there really is nothing the software can do.

A good place to start out is Recuva, an excellent general-purpose data recovery tool that has saved our own data repeatedly in the past.

Hire an Experienced Recovery Specialist

Let’s say that the data on your SD card is totally critical. Perhaps you only filmed a once-in-a-lifetime event for a very important project and after you got home it seems the SD card doesn’t want to work or the info is unreadable.

When data is effective , you’ll want to contemplate getting the assistance of an information recovery specialist to recover data from a corrupted SD card.

These companies have access to equipment and software far beyond the common consumer. They’ll rebuild broken hardware components and directly read data from the media.

This includes not only common corruption errors but electronics failure, chip failure, fire damage, water damage, physical damage and regarding anything you can think of.

Sounds great, right? Well, it certainly is, but engaging the services of those specialists is pricey, therefore the data in question must be worth it to you.

Prevention Is Always The Best

Look, you’re probably reading this writing because you’ve suffered a loss when it involves your corrupted SD cards. Hopefully one among the solutions above has recovered some or maybe all of your data.

However, sometimes data is just lost forever. So to prevent yourself from becoming a victim of SD data loss again, consider doing the following:

1. Use automated cloud storage to copy SD card data like photos or videos
2. Manually use services like Google One, DropBox or OneDrive
3. Move SD card contents from devices like drones and cameras to your computer ASAP
4. Keep a minimum of two copies of irreplaceable data in two separate places
5. Only buy high-quality SD cards from reputable brands if data integrity is critical

Conclusion

SD cards are moderately sturdy, but they still seem to corrupt more often than other kinds of solid-state storage. Particularly if you use them in applications where they’re written too constantly.

Using your SD cards in a remarkable way that acknowledges their weaknesses will help you prevent losses in the first place.

Getting confirmed on social networks are often an excellent deal for anybody hoping to grow their followers and use social media in their profession.

All of the major networks now have their verification signs. There is often a white checkmark on a blue background on Facebook and Twitter, a custom emoji on Snapchat, and a crown icon on TikTok.

On Instagram, the verification badge seems like a blue checkmark displayed next to your username.

Nevertheless, getting verified on Instagram is not any easy process. The choice to get verified isn’t available to everyone.

If you are determined to get that blue checkmark, learn what you’ll do to extend your chances of getting verified on Instagram.

Why Get Verified on Instagram?

Many people see getting that blue tick next to your Instagram name as a symbol of status. As if it’s something which will tell other users that you’ve “made it”. However, the first purpose of verification on any social network was to stop other users from stealing your identity.

If a particular account is confirmed, it means Instagram took the time to make sure that the author the account is who they assert they’re. Verification also helps other users to inquire out the account they’re trying to find rather than a fan or fake Instagram account.

Once your account is verified, a blue checkmark will appear next to your name on your profile, in DMs, in search, and within the comments section.

If you’re unsure whether undergoing the method of verification on Instagram is worthwhile, here are a couple of additional benefits that you simply get by receiving the verification badge.

Some people try to purchase likes for Instagram so they can get verified.

Be the First to Try New Instagram Features

Once you pass the verification process, you would possibly get a touch of unique treatment from Instagram. Verified users are often the primary ones to undertake and test new features before they’re extended to the remainder of Instagram users.

Instagram always shows verified accounts first in search results. So when somebody’s searching on Instagram and your account matches the search criteria, it’ll appear at the very top, leaving other accounts lower on the list.

Verified accounts even have better chances of appearing on the Suggestions of your lists and the Explore page.

Become a Thought Leader

When users see you’ve got a verified account, they automatically trust that the content you post is authentic, even if there are many other similar Instagram accounts, yours is going to be the primary they are going to.

On top of that, you’re sure to see a rise of followers and engagement on Instagram once you get the verified badge.

Get Sponsorship Offers

Many brands use Instagram as their central marketing channel. As a verified user, you’re likely to drive better sponsorship offers from big brands that are looking to partner up with Instagram influencers.

Who Can Get Verified on Instagram?

Instagram won’t verify just any user. They only give verification badges to the accounts that symbolise a popular figure, celebrity, or brand that appears in news and media and is very searched on Instagram.

On top of that, there are a variety of requirements that you simply got to meet to be eligible for Instagram verification.

• You need to follow Instagram’s Terms of Use and Community Guidelines.
• Your account must be the unique and authentic presence of the person or business it represents.
• The account must be public and have an entire bio, profile photo, and a minimum of one post on Instagram.
• Instagram doesn’t verify any general-interest accounts, like people who feature popular memes or funny dog pictures.

How to Get Verified on Instagram

If you opt that you simply want to use an Instagram verification badge, follow the steps below.

• Log into Instagram from your smartphone. You can’t apply for verification from the Instagram web.
• Go to your profile page.
• Select Menu to open settings.
• Select Settings.
• From the Settings menu select Account.
• Scroll down and choose Request Verification.
• Fill within the application, attach a photograph of your ID, and choose Send.

There’s no exact time-frame for when you should expect to receive feedback from Instagram. However, if your application’s declined, you’ll then be able to reapply for verification in 30 days.

Tips & Tricks for Getting Verified on Instagram

While there’s no perfect strategy for getting a verification badge on Instagram, there are still a couple of tips and tricks which will help improve your chances of getting verified.

Personalize Your Posts

Adding more personality to your account will aid you to distinguish your content from what other similar accounts post. It’ll also help personalize your brand and make it more relatable for other users.

Grow Your Followers and Engagement

You don’t need to be famous to get verified on Instagram, but you need to have a large following on the network. A high-profile account with an outsized number of followers appears on search results more often.

This may tell Instagram that yours is an account that individuals are frequently checking out.

One sure method to increase engagement on Instagram is to use popular hashtags. You’ll take it one step further and build a hashtag for your brand. The more you get people to use it about your brand, the more visibility you’ll get on Instagram.

Build Up a Presence Outside Instagram

You’re more likely to get verified on Instagram if you have already got a longtime presence and/or an enormous following on another platform, whether it’s your blog or other social media site.

In addition, if you have already got a verified account on another social media platform. One of the most eligibility requirements for Instagram verification is being mentioned in the media and news. Instagram will certainly be checking the net for any content associated with your brand.

Conclusion

Getting the verification badge takes time and enthusiasm, but it’s useful if you wish to stay developing your brand on Instagram.

When getting verified, you ought to even be wary of imposters and hackers who typically target growing brands and influencers who depend upon Instagram for income.

Do you think you qualify for an Instagram Verification? Give it a try and share the feedback in the comment section.