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19:17:00

The die is cast. The gladiators are rearing to go. All is set for another exciting season of the most exciting Football show onTV, the Fanz Championship Africa.

The Fanz Championship Game Show is another initiative supported by MTN which is aimed at rewarding subscribers’ passion for the game.

Last season, the show featured various teams comprising football enthusiasts from across the country. The teams, led by celebrity coaches, slugged it out in a series of football quizzes for the grand prize of 2 million Naira and community projects worth millions of Naira.

The fun and excitement continues this season as the 16 participating teams that will do battle for the grand prize of 2 million Naira and community projects worth millions of Naira have been announced. Just like last season, each of the teams will be coached by a host of celebrities.

Multiple award winning Nigerian actress, Kiki Omeli, will lead the Emirate Stallion team while ace comedian,WoliArole,will be seated on the saddle as coach of Living Spring FC. Veteran sportscaster, Jide Alabi, will have to bring all of his experience from the newsroom to bear as he attempts to lead the Sunshine Blazers to glory while fellow sportscaster; Deji Omotoyinbo,will also be the coach of the Gateway Squad.

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‘Mama Crooner,’Maryokun will be the celebrity coach for Caliphate Warriors, while popular Nigerian singer and producer, Jaywon takes charge of Pacesetters.

Other celebrity coaches for the season include DJ Neptune- Heartbeat Royale, Lolo1- Peaceville FC, Sossick- Coal City FC, Boma- Treasure FC, Bash-Excellence United, Bada Akintunde Johnson- Liberal Force, and Min Jin- AsoRockerz.

You too can be a part of the show and win exciting prizes. Just download the App to get up to date, blow by blow information about the show. You can also participate in the weekly MTN Arsenal Moment home Fans quiz where Fans can win prizes every week.

Tune into NTA network every Saturday at 9:30am, Kwese Sports TV at 3:30pm, NTA International/DSTV at 6:30pm, Get TV at 7.30pm with a repeat on Sunday at 3:30pm to join other football lovers across NIGERIA to watch the goals, near misses and most exciting team.



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09:06:00

I feel honoured to officially inform you about our forum, Ogbongeblog Planet – the fast growing forum for bloggers and digital marketers in Nigeria.

The forum which was launched in June, 2017 before switching from Blogger to WordPress, gives you the opportunity to ask questions on anything related to digital marketing : blogging, online advertising, monetization etc

So, if you want to ask for suggestions on how to improve your blog, suggestions on what to do to make Adsense approve your Adsense application, how to drive more traffic to your blog, alternatives to Google Adsense which you can use to monetize your blog, how to boost your posts with Facebook ads, how to grow your business with social media etc, the forum is the right place to ask such questions. Myself and some members of the forum are always there to answer the questions.

Apart from asking questions, you can also use the platform to showcase your expertise either by posting interesting articles, tricks and tips or by helping members of the online community with whatever problem they share at the forum.

For example, if you are good with tweaking Blogger templates, you can be sharing codes and tips you use in making your blog look stylish. While you keep doing this on the platform, many bloggers will notice you and see you as an expert in Blogger template design. Trust me, some will contact you privately to get things done for them and might even refer clients to you. If you are good with Facebook ads, use the platform to share tips and tricks and before you know what’s up, you will be contacted privately by those who would want you to help them run ads or teach them one on one.

Personally, I now share more tricks and tips at the forum compared to what I share on this blog. You can check out tools I’ve shared and also some tips here. I also have a group on the forum which gives members of the forum access to download Ogbongeblog template free. More groups will be created in the long run for free downloads, courses etc.

As a member of Ogbongeblog Planet, you also stand the chance of winning freebies which we give out to deserving members of the online community. So far, we have given out cash, free blogs, free domain names etc and we are willing to do more in the long run especially to active members and the top referrers.

The platform is integrated with robust tracking and referral system. So, it’s very easy for us to track active members and those that help in driving traffic to the forum, simply by sharing posts with their unique username attached. This makes it very easy for us to reward anyone that helps in growing the online community. There is even a badge system that automatically issues badges to members based on their activities at the forum.

The forum is currently hosted at Garanntor.ng – the first Nigerian web hosting company to host all its infrastructure in Nigeria.

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You can check it out at : http://ift.tt/2udN0LY

What’s your take on this? I welcome suggestions too 😉



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19:35:00
The football season is heating up around the world and fans of the beautiful game are in for exciting times.

16 teams paired with celebrity coaches will compete for four million Naira and community projects worth one million naira in the 4th season of the MTN Fanz Championship Africa Game Show which kicks off this month.

The game show which is developed by Abelinis Limited and Ultima Studios in partnership with MTN will air every Saturday on TVC and NTA from October 7.

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According to the Chief Executive Officer, Abelinis Ltd, Abiodun Oshinibosi, “Fanz Championship Africa gives lovers of the game a medium to test their knowledge of the lifestyle, entertainment and business of football. Designed to engage and reward fans for their knowledge of leagues and tournaments worldwide, the show will give winners a chance to contribute to their community’s development.”

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Speaking on the initiative, the General Manager, Brand and Communications, MTN; Richard Iweanoge said “We are proud to be part of this project which will give young people an opportunity to connect with their passions and potentially contribute to their communities in meaningful ways.

“Sports, and football in particular has the ability to rally and unify people. It instils the values of hard work, fair play, team spirit and mutual respect, equipping players for long-term individual and team success.”

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The Fanz Championship Game Show is the latest initiative involving MTN aimed at driving the development of sports in Nigeria. Earlier this year, the telecoms giant announced a partnership with the current English FA Cup holders, Arsenal Football club, which has continued to serve up thrilling activities for fans of the English Premiership.


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13:28:00
You can now hire the top 3% software developers in Nigeria at slatecode.com

SlateCode is a startup organization whose vision is to help top companies and start-ups hire the top 3% software developers for their most mission-critical projects. SlateCode is a market place for top developers, engineers, programmers, coders, architects and consultants.

As you know well that hiring a service programmer is a difficult task. And not only must you ensure that your selected candidate know the job, you must also make sure they fit in with the company’s objective. And that is why SlateCode has developed a unique software application that will make the process of hiring programmers an easy task.

Then what are the Options involved with SlateCode?


  • The first option is to “APPLY AS A DEVELOPER”
After an applicant have successfully submitted the application form through this link http://ift.tt/2xdB9gO, the applicant is required to write a test. After writing the test, the applicant is to proceed to do a project based on the skills chosen during application. A Skype interview will be done after the submission of the project. If successful at the interview, the records will be kept and forwarded to companies interested in their services.

  • The second option is to “HIRE A DEVELOPER”
As popularly said by Doug Linder that ‘a good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street’ Therefore, we have got you covered. The second process is for companies to hire developers which you will find through this link http://ift.tt/2xUSzSZ. The company tells us what kind of software developers it wants to hire. We find the perfect match and hire them for the company at no risk.

  • The third option is to “BECOME A DEVELOPER”
Talk is cheap; show me the code is what is probably on your mind. This option is for training young and interested Nigerians to become good software developers. You can apply through this link http://ift.tt/2xdhi18



Remember, if people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals. But If they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Why go far when SlateCode is the quickest and most reliable you will ever find. 

Visit Slatecode today at https://slatecode.com

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About Software Developers

Who is a software developer?
In one sentence, a developer is an individual that builds and create software and applications.

What then is the role of a software developer?

  • They are responsible for the design, testing and maintenance of software programs for computer operating systems or applications, such as word processing or database management systems.
  • They create software programs customized for a specific organization, or software that is suitable for a wide variety of consumers or business users.


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13:57:00
Private schools originally became popular and well patronised as a result of government's lackadaisical and nonchalant attitude towards providing and ensuring a standard educational system in the country. 


Today, they are everywhere to provide an all round educational standard that the government would not provide. They are there to make schools open and available to students when government schools have been locked as a result of consistent strikes by their angry and hungry teachers. 


The last time my brother wrote his Junior WAEC and NECO in his school, a private school that refused to render assistance to its candidates by dictating or copying answers for them on the board, a friend of my mum who also had a student in the same class complained bitterly to her about the school's insensitivity towards the success of her students.

She had concluded that the only reason why the school management would do that was because they wanted their students to repeat, so the parents in their choiceless state would pay twice for the same class. Very lame. Isn't it? That came from an educated woman! A level 10 government school teacher! 


Sadly, most parents do not see private schools as standard schools, until their children have passed their WASSCE and NECO excellently. 'My child must pass, even if he knows nothing' is all they care for. Afterall, they are paying for it. Some parents would enrol their kids into private schools after four, five years in public schools just to ensure their children get the needed special assistance when its time to write external examinations. 


Today, we see private schools promoting students that merits no promotion, because they don't want to upset parents and make them withdraw their children. They work with numbers, hence nothing except graduation must decrease their students' population.


Today, private school teachers are incapable of dishing proper discipline to erring students. Some schools instructs teachers to give a 'he is very attentive and responsible' comment in the report card of a student who is obviously irresponsible, very unserious and less enthusiastic about his/ her academics.


Today, senior students who can hardly construct a three paragraphs essay without grammatical blunders and wrong spellings; students that are incapable of doing simple 2+6/2 arithmetic and have never stretched their reading abilities extensively are bagging As and Bs in WASSCE and NECO. Some of these schools even assists students during junior WAEC and NECO exams. What a school! 


Today, there are lots of half baked private schools with half baked teachers and standards. No conducive learning facilities and environment, yet they are government approved schools. Some others with average/standard facilities threw qualitative education and discipline into thin air. Everything is more of the profits rather than value and dignity. What products are they aiming to give to the society? 


Today, most of these students already lost confidence in themselves. They believe they can't pass external examinations on their own without being assisted. Most of them are too relaxed and bothers not about reading. Why are they paying huge and ridiculous amount of money? Afterall, it is their duty to pay and the schools' to make sure their students pass these external examinations excellently. 


Government schools are not in any way better. True. Less than 17% of them give standard and quality education. True. I attended one of the best government secondary schools in Lagos, where the provision of standard education was quite commendable for a government school. They also didn't promote students who merit no promotion or render assistance during external examinations throughout my stay. I believe there are still few government like that and private schools that could be better. 


 If as a parent, I have to put my children in private schools because I feel they can provide them with standard learning facilities and equipments; If I have to pay huge amount of money to get the best for my kids, then the outcome should really worth it. My children should be able to think with their heads and be more than capable of writing internal and external examinations on their own. 


They should give honest reports and comments on my children's indoor and outdoor academic, as well as moral performances. Some parents knows these things already. They just need these schools to confirm it, so they could work with them and look for ways to improve the ability of their kids.


Parents should stop forcing school authorities to promote their children when they fail exams. You are outrightly placing your children beneath their contemporaries in life, Instead, work hands in hands with schools to help these kids cultivate good reading habit and acquire knowledge. 


Let us stop churning out half baked students with poor heads and good grades. 


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16:18:00
YouTube has announced that the YouTube Go app previewed at the recent Google for Nigeria event is now available for initial public download in Nigeria.

YouTube has been reimagined to meet the needs of the next generation of users in YouTube Go, which is available for initial download in the Google Play Store. YouTube plans to continue to learn from our users to improve the app over time.

Speaking on the announcement, Johanna Wright, VP Product Management at YouTube, said: “YouTube Go has been designed to take into account the challenges faced by YouTube users in countries like Nigeria, such as data cost and connectivity. With YouTube Go, we are making it possible for everyone in Nigeria to be able to discover videos that they love, regardless of their network status or data consumption preferences.”

With more Nigerians coming online every year, and most of them only using their mobiles for internet access, we are working hard to make products that are tailored to Nigerians’ specific needs.

“You can save videos for offline watching, and can choose what resolution video to save - basic quality or standard quality - giving you better control over how you use your precious data.”, he added.

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Built from the ground up to meet the needs of the growing online youth population, YouTube Go offers easy video downloading, phone-number sign-in, effortless searching, and more effective ways to control data use. YouTube Go also features a home screen that shows both personalized recommendations as well as trending and popular videos nearby, allowing users to see the latest content that the people around are watching, upfront. It offers a ‘preview video’ function to make it easier to decide what to watch or download.

Before developing YouTube Go, the YouTube team spent thousands of hours gathering information, conducting interviews, doing testing, and refining the product. The result is YouTube Go, an entirely new YouTube app that is designed to be offline first.


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14:18:00
If you've switched your site from http to https using premium ssl certificate or a free one e.g letsencrypt and no padlock icon is displaying next to your website address in web browsers address bar, it simply means some items on your site are insecure. Those insecure elements must be secured before the https security lock can display next to your site url in web browsers.

So, How Do I Know The Insecure Items?

Rather than spending hours racking your brain and checking over every link on your site manually, there are some online tools that can get this done for you with a click of a button - and one of such tools is WhyNoPadLock.com

The free ssl page checker simply scan your website for non-secure content and list the items that are secured and the ones that need to be secured. It’s a great tool for any ecommerce merchant or website owner to have in their arsenal for making sure their https secure pages are actually secure. The ssl mixed content checker also tells you the expiry date of your website ssl certificate.

The tool is so easy to use.

All you have to do is paste or type the full secure URL into the text box at whynopadlock.com. It’s that easy.

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As long as your secure page does not require a username or password, or for you to be signed-in to reach it, the script can fully test the page and you will get a report about :
  • Insecure calls to images,css, and javascript
  • Images called insecurely from linked css and js files
  • Expired cert, invalid or missing intermediate certificate (including 3rd party SSL certs.)
  • SHA-1 algorithm test, POODLE test, insecure form calls for Chrome.
So give www.WhyNoPadlock.com a try, and find out if your secure pages have any issues.



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09:15:00
If you have a thing for selfie phones or smartphones with big batteries then you must have heard of Gionee A1 Lite.

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The Gionee A1 Lite is aimed at selfie lovers and features a 20MP front facing camera, you also get a 4000mAH battery on the device. When the device launched, the question on everyone’s mind was, is the camera worth the hype? Is it worth the price?

According to Gionee, the USP of the A1 Lite is the 20MP front facing camera. Which a lot of users have praised. One user said images look good under poor lighting.

We also found a user online who claims to have used both the A1 and the A1 lite. He believes both devices have the same setup, but the image quality on the A1 lite is lower. Another user commented on how he loves taking pictures with his family members, while another said it was the best phone he ever owned.

Another user talked about how the camera captures a decent amount of details. A lot of female users are very happy with the A1 lite, they say the A1 lite takes beautiful images and their selfies have lesser blemishes and a smoother skin tone.

There were no complaints with the design of the device. Critics believe the Gionee A1 Lite is ergonomic and feels well built. We are not a big fan of the design of the A1 lite, we feel it is not as pretty as the A1.

No complaints with the battery, users say the 4000mAH battery lasts long. Position of the fingerprint scanner, power button and volume rocker is just right and all three work quite well. Users are not too happy about the 720p display, a lot of users see it as a let-down. A lot of mixed feeling around the performance of the A1 lite, some users believe Gionee could have done better, while others believe a 3GB RAM does the work perfectly.

For the most part, the Gionee A1 lite is a slam dunk. It’s brilliantly designed, budget friendly, has an excellent camera and has a huge battery that lasts. Long story short, if you’re looking for a new phone, this should be at the top of your list.






If you have the Gionee A1 lite Smart phone, share your experience with us in the comments. If you haven’t experienced it, visit http://ift.tt/2fXBQYN


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08:15:00
Garanntor Hosting, the fastest growing web hosting company in West Africa, has announced the acquisition of Bytes Hosting, a division of Bytes & Data Systems, with effect from 1st September 2017.

Garanntor has acquired over 550 active hosting accounts and 700 domain names from Byte Hosting. This acquisition would boost Garanntor’s domain and hosting portfolio to over 3000 Shared Hosting accounts and over 4000 domain names in less than a year of commencing operations.

Following the transaction, the acquisition would expose Bytes Hosting customers to a wider range of products at lower prices, more flexible plan and superior 24/7 support from an experienced team by phone, email or chat. To ensure a seamless and hassle-free transition, Garanntor Hosting has created a specialized migration team to work directly with customers as their scheduled migrations and upgrades occur.

David Nkpoku, founder and CEO of Bytes Hosting said concerning the sale of his company. “We needed to find best home for our clients who have trusted us with their business for years, we shopped around for a couple of months for the best hosting company that had the expertise and could provide better support and services to our clients and I must honestly say that Garanntor came out tops with a very wide margin. I must say I was impressed as soon as I walked into their offices and saw their structure and world-class operations, I knew Garanntor was it.”

‘Garanntor Nigeria, was also named the winner in the Best Local Hosting Company category; at the NIRA 2017 .NG awards which also affirmed my position.’’

“My primary focus for Bytes & Data Systems from now will be in pursuing more exciting opportunities in mobile and web development.”Nkpoku says.

According to Garanntor CEO Olalekan Ajayi, “Garanntor Nigeria is geared towards the local internet growth and contribution to the Nigerian economy”. The CEO is a strong believer of ‘’the need for homegrown hosting services of international standards’’ with unmatched support and the need for it to be offered at affordable prices.

"One of our growth strategies is via acquisitions. This is just one of many more acquisitions which would put us within the top 3 in a very short period. We want our newest customers to know that we are willing to go above and beyond to help their business succeed online. We look forward to creating an exceptional business partnership and would like to welcome each Byte Hosting customer to the Garanntor family.” Ajayi says.

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.


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About Garanntor Hosting

Founded in 2016, Garanntor Nigeria offers affordable, fast, premium local data hosting services which include but not limited to – domain names, virtual private servers, cloud servers, web hosting, web security, cloud solutions, content delivery network, application hosting, cloud storage, disaster recovery and colocation.

To learn more about the company, visit http://ift.tt/2fQVkKh



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