Category: Tech News

Jiji is one of the most respectable classified sites in Ghana. With over a million products listed and hundreds of thousands of users online daily, Jiji is a good platform for anyone hoping to make sales in Ghana through digital platforms.

Whatever you do, be you a service provider or a manufacturer or retailer, Jiji.com.gh has the potential of raking in some cedis for you.

From cars, motorcycles, to furniture, garden equipment, hairdressing services, repair works, kitchen items, electronic devices to mobile phones and office equipment, there is a room for you on Jiji.com

This article focuses on how you can sell your products on Jiji.com here in Ghana.

First off, in order to sell on Jiji, you need to have an account so we’d be looking at account creation, posting on the platform and how to categorize.

Registration For Jiji Account

To register for an account on Jiji, visit Jiji.com.gh and follow the steps below:

1. Click ‘Register’
2. Select ‘Login via google’ to sign in with your Gmail account.

This way, your email account is linked with your jiji account directly so you can get notified of any new happenings on your account plus it gives you a one-click option to login at all times.

Listing Your Products On Jiji

After successfully logging in to your account, follow the steps below to list your products on Jiji.

1. Click on ‘sell’ on the extreme right top corner of your account dashboard
2. Select the category of the product or service you want to advertise from the dropdown list under the ‘category’ tab.
3. Select a subcategory under the subcategory tab which is next to the ‘category’ tab.
4. Click on the big plus beneath the categories tabs to add photos of your product or service. Make sure your pictures are less than 5MB each and they are png or jpeg files.
5. Select your region and the district where your product or service is located and click next.
6. In the next window, enter the title of your ad. Usually, this should be a short description of your product or service stating its name and its basic information.
7. Enter your company’s name in the ‘Company box’. This may be skipped if you do not own a company.
8. Give a detailed description of your product or service in the ‘Description’ box.
9. You may enter your price or select ‘Contact for price’ to hide the price from buyers unless they contact you.
10. Enter your phone number and click ‘post ad’

Rules Governing Ads On Jiji

In order for you to have a good time selling on Jiji and keep your account in good standing for a long time, there are rules and regulations you need to obey at all times. These rules and regulations include:

1. Do not post ads about Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, human organs, weapons, drugs, illegal files, stolen items, sex services, multi-level marketing services such as Qnet and Max International, Home-base businesses, loans and other items prohibited by law.
2. Your prices must correspond with the real prices on the market.
3. All services or products must be located in Ghana.
4. If you have several items to advertise, they must be posted separately.
5. Every advert must have clear details and pricing.

Conclusion

Selling on Jiji is usually very easy since they have thousands of prospective buyers searching for products and services every day.

However, when you post an ad, Jiji usually has a team of moderators who read through your ads to be sure that they conform with the rules and regulations governing the site, as listed above before activating it to go live.

Also, your ads can stay on jiji for between 3-6 months if you do not delete them yourself. I hope this article was helpful to you in your quest to sell on Jiji. Kindly leave comments regarding any further enquiries.

The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has said the GH COVID-19 Tracker app has been downloaded 16,000 times in less than 24 hours after it was launched on Monday, 13th April 2020.

According to her, about 100 reports of Coronavirus-like symptoms have also been made through the app.

Addressing the press on Tuesday, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful said the reports would be forward to the Ghana Health Service.

“As at this morning, there’ve been 16,000 downloads already even though it’s just through the web link on android,” she stated.

She added that the app would also be made available on the Apple store “but the information we got was that many Ghanaians are using android phones and so we will reach a larger population quickly.”

On the need for an app, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful noted that the app was Ghana specific and that “We are interested in tracking the virus in our country and so it is specifically designed to be used in Ghana.”

She said people who were not using smartphones, could dial *769# and follow the necessary instructions to get their symptoms recorded.

Mrs Owusu-Ekuful also welcomed suggestions to improve the setup of the app.

What is the GH COVID-19 Tracker app?

The COVID-19 Tracker App, is a mobile app by Ghana’s Ministry of Communications in partnership with iQuent Technologies Ascend Digital Solution through the common platform of mobile networks, to trace contacts of persons infected by the novel Coronavirus, show where they have been in recent time, through various telephone-related data, and link such people to health professionals for urgent action to be taken.

The app, through same telephone-related data, is also able to report contacts which are, or have recently been to COVID-19 hit countries, as well as track whether individuals required to self-quarantine, are indeed doing so.

How to install the GH COVID-19 Tracker App

1. Visit the official COVID-19 Tracker App (25 MB) – ghcovid19.com
2. Accept the Terms & Conditions to download and use GH COVID-19 Tracker App
3. Click on the blue “download” text to download the app for your Android Phone
4. You will see the file downloading status on your phone
5. When you click on “INSTALL”, you may be prompted to allow installation from unknown sources on your device.
6. Allow the installation and wait for the COVID-19 Tracker App to install
7. Your app will then be successfully installed

The African Impact Initiative is a non-profit organization with a mission of developing the African community through its youth. Formed and supported at the University of Toronto since 2016, their projects have helped to provide African youth in Canada with better career opportunities and core skills.

They also provide a platform for them to learn from experienced professionals, through their workshops and conferences.

As the organization grew, they began to tackle challenges back home as well through community development projects. Their first project in Southern Nigeria was focused on improving healthcare outcomes for the Ikot Eko Ebon rural community. In partnership with Cottage Hospital and the Akwa Ibom government, they were able to increase the number of people in that village who received quality care by revamping their community hospital with equipment to address their pressing health issues. They also held a campaign, to educate the community members on what was now available in their local dialect.

While successful, this project revealed some of the challenges organizations face when trying to bring in solutions from outside. Sustainability was proving hard, due to travel costs and communication gaps.

It was clear that they couldn’t replicate this model in different African communities as easily as they had thought. This was what motivated their team to come up with the African Impact Challenge.

The goal of the African Impact Challenge is to enable sustainable development locally across the continent, by investing in youth and empowering them to solve identified problems through technology-driven impact entrepreneurship. They are essentially trying to empower African youth to tackle their own challenges locally with technology. Guided by The Prosperity Paradox, it will be run in different African countries over the next 5 years.

The target is to successfully kick-start 10 innovations aligned with the selection criteria by 2025. African Impact Initiative will be doing this by providing capital, resources and mentorship necessary to begin from scratch with a $100,000 CAD fund.

The first version is taking place in Ghana, and they have partnered with Ashesi University, Ghana Technology University & University of Development Studies to rollout the applications. It is open to students in other universities as well. They have also partnered with BaseCamp Initiative to provide the co-creation space. Selected teams will participate in a paid summer incubator, which will bring their ideas to life and make them market-ready;  with funding of up to 20000 GHS available per team.

All Ghanaian youth are welcome to apply! This year’s challenge application is open until April 10th at 11:59 PM GMT. Please check out the criteria and apply here: https://www.africanimpact.ca/the-african-impact-challenge

Pictures from the visit to Ghana in December 2019

Starting today, 1st March 2020, Ghanaians will no longer be able to use the manual passport application process.

This is because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has stopped the use of manual passport application platform.

Don’t worry, you can still apply for a Ghana passport by following the online process here.

An earlier release from the Ministry has directed passport applicants to use the online passport application platform, passport.mfa.gov.gh to submit their applications.

“The measure will enhance service delivery to the Ghanaian public,” the notice stated.

It also noted that the online passport application is now available at all Passport Application Centres. This latest reform follows Parliament approving an upward review of passport application fees in February.

Here are the new prices of Passport Related Services in Ghana:

Application Type	Booklet Pages	Price (GHS)
Standard Application	32	100.00
Standard Application	48	150.00
Expedited Application	32	150.00
Expedited Application	48	200.00
Attestation of Legal Documents	–	37.50
Travel Certificate	–	37.50

Ghana also extended the validity period of the country’s ordinary passport booklets from five years back to 10 years.

The extension followed complaints by some Ghanaians that the five-year validity period was too short. The new extension will help reduce queues at the passport application centres in the long run.