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In recent years, the landscape of mobile usage in the African region has transformed rapidly. Three-quarters of the population have a SIM connection, and almost a third of mobile users have a smartphone. According to a recent report on the region, “World Bank data indicates that around 40 per cent of the population in the region is under the age of 16, a demographic segment that has significantly lower levels of mobile ownership than the population as a whole. Future growth opportunities will increasingly be concentrated in rural and low-ARPU (average revenue per user) markets, as well as younger demographic groups.”

With the rising trend of mobile adoption and acceleration of the transition to mobile broadband, parents need to be more vigilant about the online activities of their kids. What are kids doing with their digital devices? To whom have they been calling or texting? What are they posting on social media sites? If you have all these questions running through your mind, getting a mobile spying app to monitor your kid’s phone is so far the best solution.

Prevention is better than cure, and these apps might help save your child from paedophile, stalkers and stop cyberbullying. Mobile spying apps work in a complete stealth mode, fetch all the information off the target phone you want to monitor, and display that information to you through a web-based control panel. Of course, these spy apps are not freely available. If you find any free spy app, beware it’s a SCAM! You have to pay to get tabs on your kids’ activities. Here we have mentioned the top 3 spying apps, and the ranking is based on the pricing, features, compatibility, and ease of functionality.

Xnspy

Xnspy is the first on our best spy apps list. It’s complete monitoring software that can keep you updated on your kids’ activities in real time, even if they are away. You can buy a subscription plan (Basic or Premium) by opting one of the pricing options (monthly, quarterly or yearly). After the subscription, you will get an email with a download link and other details. From that link, you can download the app on the mobile phone you want to monitor. Therefore, you need physical access to the device. Xnspy will be installed within 5 minutes, and it will take a few hours to gather the information from the target phone. You can simply log into your Xnspy’s web-based account to access monitored phone’s data anytime, anywhere. Call logs, text messages, installed apps, photos, videos, and almost every possible thing can be accessed through Xnspy’s online portal.

Here are the powerful and distinctive features that make Xnspy the best spying app:

• View contacts, call history and block incoming calls
• Record phone calls and surroundings
• Monitor text messages, iMessages, and IM chats, including Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, etc.
• Track GPS Locations and create geofences for alerts
• Monitor keystrokes
• Monitor emails, bookmarks, and online activities
• Access multimedia files
• App blocking
• Monitor logs of Wi-Fi networks
• Receive instant alerts on specific words, contacts, places, and email addresses
• Xnspy Analytics: Top 5 callers, Top 5 call durations, 10 top frequently-visited sites
• Remotely control a phone: Lock a cell phone, wipe data, take a screenshot

As aforementioned, Xnspy is compatible with the latest Android and iOS devices, too. The Android version works on all OS versions running between 4.0 and 9.0. Xnspy iOS version is compatible with all iPhones and iPads devices running between iOS 6.0 and 12.2.

Xnspy offers its services in two subscription plans: Basic and Premium. With the Basic version, you can avail all the standard spying features of the app. While, with the Premium version, you will be offered all the advanced and distinctive features to deal with your spying needs.

Basic Xnspy Version:

• Monthly: $29.99/month
• Quarterly: $41.99/quarter
• Yearly: $59.99/year

Premium Xnspy Version:

• Monthly: $35.99/month
• Quarterly: $59.99/quarter
• Yearly: $89.99/year

Flexispy

Flexispy is a spy app that offers a plethora of features. It enables you to keep tabs on the digital activities of a person without letting them know. Though, Flexispy’s major turnoff is its generous price. Like other spy apps, you will need physical access to the monitored device to install Flexispy. Once installed, Flexispy silently takes total control of the mobile phone or tablet and enables you to spy on all its communications and activities from any computer with a web browser. You can track the GPS location, photos, videos, and web history of the monitored device. Flexispy’s unique features include spy call and fake messages to any number found in the contact list and remotely accessing the camera of the monitored device to take a photo or record a video.

With Flexispy installed on a phone, this is what you could get:

• Call logs, Spycall to any number, and phone call recording
• Surround recordings
• Messages and multimedia from WhatsApp, LINE, Hangout, Facebook, WeChat, etc.
• Text messages
• Take a photo or record video using the phone’s camera remotely
• View browsing history and bookmarks
• Keylogger
• Location tracking
• Access multimedia files

Flexispy can work with Android OS 4.0.3 to 8.1 and all iOS versions up to 9.1. It also supports iOS 9.2 up to 11.4.1 but in tethered mode only. Flexispy offers two pricing plans for its customers: Premium and Extreme. Premium version proffers all standard spy services, and the Extreme version lets you spy on a mobile phone by availing all the advanced features.

Premium version

• Monthly: $68/month
• Quarterly: $99/quarter
• Yearly: $149/year

Extreme version

• Quarterly: $199/quarter
• Yearly: $349/year

Spyzie

Spyzie is a powerful web-based phone spy application used primarily as parental control. You can easily monitor and control all the activities of your kids remotely. Spyzie gathers all the information from the monitored device and presents it to you in a user-friendly manner. The automated functionality makes it easy to install and use. Call logs, text messages, installed apps, photos, and videos can be accessed by simply logging into your Spyzie’s online portal.

Here are the detailed features that are offered by Spyzie:

• Monitor call logs
• Access text messages and IM chats like WhatsApp, Facebook, Tinder, etc.
• Browse contacts
• Monitor emails and browser history
• Track GPS location and geofencing
• Access the multimedia files
• Block inappropriate apps
• View deleted SMS, Call logs, and pictures

Spyzie can help you know where your kids are, what they are doing, and how they are connected. You can monitor an iOS device running iOS 10.0.0 or higher. For Android, it’s version 4.0 or higher. You can avail Spyzie’s services by choosing one of the two subscription plans: Premium and Ultimate. The Premium version offers all the basic features, whereas, the Ultimate version offers all the advanced spying features.

Premium Spyzie Version:

• Monthly: $29.99/month
• Quarterly: $39.99/quarter
• Yearly: $89.99/year

Ultimate Spyzie Version:

• Monthly: $39.99/month
• Quarterly: $49.99/quarter
• Yearly: $99.99/year

Before buying Spyzie, here are a few things you must know:

• You will need physical access to the monitored device to install Spyzie.
• In case of iOS devices, you will need iCloud credentials of the device.
• The monitored device must be connected to the internet.
• You must ensure the compatibility of the monitored device with Spyzie.

Spying apps help you in monitoring and tracking the digital footsteps of your kids. Xnspy is the best spy app that lets you monitor calls, videos, and every possible thing that is present on your kids’ phone. Its reasonable price, high compatibility, and ease of usage makes it worth investing your money in.

Call blocking, instant alerts on specific words, places, contacts or email addresses, and Xnspy analytics are some of the unique features of Xnspy that make it the best spy app in Africa.

The National Teaching Council (NTC) is collecting data on all in-service teachers.

The purpose of the activity according to the NTC is to address UNESCO demand on Global Teacher Professionalism Standards.

The process, though less stressful has still seen some teachers finding difficulties in submitting their data online.

The National Teaching Council is, therefore, giving the opportunity to teachers to register using two options.

How to submit data to the National Teaching Council

The two ways to submit your data to the NTC have been outlined below.

Option 1 (Data submission via the NTC mobile application):

1. Download the mobile application from the Google Play Store with this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gh.gov.ntc.myntc
2. Teachers without an NTC account should create an account and sign-in. Teachers with an
   NTC account should simply sign-in.
3. After successful sign-in, teachers should click on the green button with the inscription
   “In-Service Teachers should click here to fill and submit data.”

Option 2 (Data submission via the web portal/survey):

1. Go to the website https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M25KQ7Y
2. Provide the necessary information and submit the form by clicking on the SUBMIT button at the end of the survey.

Teachers are to submit their data latest on May 31, 2019.

Ladies and Gentlemen, tech enthusiasts, the most anticipated smartphone of the year have been revealed and it was definitely worth the wait. A broader look at the event, makes the Samsung event look like a direct response to Apple with the release of three new phones, earbuds with wireless charging and the new galaxy watches. Here are the main features of the Galaxy unpacked.

The earbuds are a more revamped version of Apple’s air pods and come with much anticipated wireless charging cases and give 6 hours of use per charge. The fact that the core of the sound system was built by AKG means the sound can be guaranteed to be epic, to say the least. The ergonomic design ensures the earbuds don’t fall out during vigorous exercise but have a nice aesthetic look to them The seamless and easy connection to the tab 5se shows that it’s going to work for mainly Apple devices and that Samsung is keen on building its own ecosystem to rival Apple.

The new galaxy watches, fully expected to be introduced in combination with galaxy fit shoes but then failed to arrive at the party may be debuted at the Mobile World Congress scheduled for next week. The watches arrive in two forms; the action for an everyday look and the fit for the gym gang. Both watches are extremely lightweight, slim come with water resistance and a week of use per single charge as a really cool add on. A heart rate count is an added functionality and then there is stress measurement (a feature the Garmin Vivoactive 3 came with last year ) which is supposed to help you keep down stress. Basically, the watches check all the boxes and are only differentiated from in each other in looks.

The Samsung Galaxy S10

A look at this phone and clearly you can see that Samsung did their homework on this design after low s9 sales. With an all-new dynamic AMOLED, a right-sided Infinity O display cutout(which houses the front camera) and a 6.1” edge to edge side to side, the phone looks absolutely gorgeous with a firm touch. The leaks pretty much got everything right but seen up close and in better image quality just reiterates the stunning design.

Samsung is pretty much unrivalled in terms of display and an HDR10+ screen with 42% less blue light and 551 PPI just solidify Samsung’s hold on the crown. The images showed appear to be much brighter in colour and more vibrant. An all-new ultrasonic(faster and safer) fingerprint scanner is also in the display rather than at the back in previous models. The back of the phone comes in 3 other variants(prism black, prism blue, flamingo pink and prism green and yellow) and has a ceramic black or white variant for the higher end 12 GB/ 1TB option/

The back of the phone has a new ultrawide 16-megapixel lens with an angle of 123 degrees which is pretty great for taking landscape photos in addition to the telephoto lens for better zoom and the regular 12-megapixel camera. Reverse Power share is a feature that allows you to wirelessly charge another device from the back of the phone. It was first seen in the Huawei Mate 20 Pro but is also included in the new S10 as well which is very handy.

The S10 E comes at $750 ( same as iPhone XR) while the base option for the S10 starts at $900 and the S10 plus with a double front camera starts at $1000 which is by no means cheap considering the Dollar-Cedi rate.

The icing on the cake was the Galaxy Fold which is a 4.6” display when folded but a 7.3” tablet when opened up. The phone allowed 3 app multitasking with a seemingly smooth experience even when changing from the single screen to the double screen. The 5G S10 was also shown with a bigger 6.7” display but with all the base specifications.

And that rounds up the Galaxy Unpacked. Next stop, Mobile World Congress. Until then, please subscribe for more Tech news.

January was an interesting month for Ghanaians with a lot of ups and downs. As the first month of the year, Ghanaians had a lot to talk about.

But what information were Ghanaians interested in for the month? To know what really a lot of us here in Ghana have been searching, we resorted to Google Trends.

Here is what we discovered:

Jobs in Ghana

It is no news that a lot of the youth are still searching for jobs eagerly. And nowadays, there is nowhere to get the latest job postings than online portals.

From the search data we gathered, a lot of Ghanaians are actively searching for jobs via Google Search and there seem to be no end in sight as the query was a regular in 2018.

Hopefully, more people find the jobs they want.

Ghana Armed Forces Recruitment

This one is closely linked to the first term. However, what makes it unique is it’s a quick rise to the top of things searched on Google by Ghanaians as a stand-alone term,

It appears a lot of Ghanaians love the army and are looking for ways to join.

Public Holidays in Ghana

This one is interesting. It appears that after the December holidays, Ghanaians have fallen in love so much with the enjoyment that they want to know what days there would be more holidays,

Another reason this term could have come up will be the new January 7th Holiday that was observed this year.

Well, the bad news, for those who wanted more days off, in that there is no holiday in February.

Found any surprises on the list?