Konga.com Empowers Franchisees and Merchants in Nigeria

Nigeria’s largest online mall, Konga.com’s commitment to deepening commerce and trade in Africa is bearing commendable results as some of its franchisees and merchants have benefited from the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund.

The franchisees and merchants were among the Seven Hundred and Five beneficiaries who received various amounts of money to grow and enhance their businesses.

This is in line with Konga's mission to be the engine of trade and commerce in Africa by empowering indigenous MSME's to reach a wider market across the nation as demonstrated through its strategic collaboration with the Lagos state government thereby helping franchisees and merchants to match with the fast changing technology by providing platforms for them to thrive.

Franchisee of Konga Online Shopping Limited who benefitted from the LSETF Loan Scheme in a group photograph with Board members of LSETF and Adeola Lawrence, Business Development Manager of Konga Online Shopping Limited.

Franchisee of Konga Online Shopping Limited who benefitted from the LSETF Loan Scheme in a group photograph with Akintude Oyebode, Executive Secretary of LSETF and Adeola Lawrence, Business Development Manager of Konga Online Shopping Limited.

 

About Konga.com

Konga.com is Nigeria’s largest online mall. The company launched in July 2012 with a mission, ‘To Become the Engine of Commerce and Trade in Africa’. The company has recorded very rapid growth and in just 3 years, konga.com has built an operation that leads the market in customer satisfaction, merchandise shipped and innovation.

Konga began operations as a first party retailer investing in inventory and infrastructure to support the birth of ecommerce in the region. The company has now evolved to become Nigeria’s most vibrant online marketplace with close to 30,000 merchants registered and selling on the platform. With over 200,000 products listed on the site, spanning various categories including Phones, Computers, Clothing, Shoes, Home Appliances, Books, healthcare, Baby Products, personal care and much more; Kongais Nigeria’s largest online marketplace.

Konga has offices in Lagos, hubs in South Africa and China; with warehouses and distribution centers all over Nigeria.

See more details on konga.com.

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How I Use Feedburner To Auto Post From My Blog To Twitter

I auto post from this Blogger blog to Twitter account of the blog by making use of Feedburner Socialize feature. The service makes it easy to distribute your content to interested subscribers or followers on social networks using any FeedBurner feed you already have. At this time, the Socialize service only supports Twitter.

So, whenever I publish a new post on the blog, the title and a link back to the post automatically gets tweeted on Twitter. This feature utilizes Google URL shortening service to create short versions of my feed links, e.g. http://goo.gl/xyzxyz. And this makes it easy for me to track the clicks via goo.gl

I set it to generate hashtags from labels added to my posts and those hashtags are automatically added to the tweets. There is also an option to add additional text (which can also be an hashtag) at the beginning or end of the post. Inline hash tags are supported too.

If you want to use the service, sign in to feedburner.com and burn a feed for your blog.

If you have an existing feed there for your blog, click on it and click on the "Publicize" tab

Click "Socialize" and add your Twitter account. Once added, set the formatting options as desired and click "Activate".

Thereafter, if you publish a post on your blog, it should appear on the connected Twitter account.

That's all.

I hope this helps.

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Add "Save As PDF" Option To Microsoft Office 2007 With This Add-In

If you have Microsoft Office 2007 installed on your computer, there is no need installing a third-party ms office to pdf converter on the computer. No need wasting your data uploading files to sites like Zamzar just because you want to convert a doc to pdf.  All you need is the free Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS add-in for 2007 Microsoft Office programs.

The add-in allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs.  Specific features vary by program though.

Below is what the "Save as PDF" will appear once you install the add-in :

The add-in works with the following Office programs:

Microsoft Office Access 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
Microsoft Office Visio 2007
Microsoft Office Word 2007

How To Install The "Save as PDF" Add-In for Microsoft Office 2007

• Download the file by clicking the Download button here and save the file to your hard disk.
• Double-click the SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe program file on your hard disk to start the Setup program.
• Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.

How To Use the "Save as PDF" Add-In for Microsoft Office 2007

After installation, open the document you want to publish and then, depending on the program you are using, select "Save or Publish to PDF or XPS" from the Office or File menu.

That's all.

If you want to remove the add-in, go to "Control Panel" > "Add/Remove Programs" and Uninstall the "Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS Add-in for 2007 Microsoft Office programs".

I hope this helps.

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Unveiling The Gionee M6 Mirror : A Phone Bigger Than Your Needs

In the scheme of things, the word ‘BIG’ is a recurring decimal. We dream to make it big, ride big cars, live in big houses and buy big phones. The Gionee Family in response to our big desires creates a phone that mirrors them and calls it the GIONEE M6 MIRROR.

Marvel at the sight of the Gionee M6 Mirror.

And what it comes with...

Hmmmm, Let’s think inside the box

And the phone… the big screen 5.5 inches High Definition display. It’s not a joking sturv.

The Mirror effect!

The phone did not come alone but we will deal with that later.

The Gionee M6 Mirror surpasses your idea of a perfect design. It combines a Dual Arc Design, 3D Back Arc Mirror Design and a 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 3 not forgetting its Water drop Display.

Here’s the speaker vent

Charging port!

The Gionee M6 Mirror has got an 8MP front camera

And a 13MP rear camera

A big phone deserves a big pouch!

The charger and USB cord.

The Earpiece and Ejector pin.

Let’s power the phone.

There you have it, The Gionee M6 Mirror is alluring, incredible and is definitely your idea of a big phone. Like they say, the ball is in your court.

Visit Jumia online or any phone store closest to you and begin your adventure with the adorable Gionee M6 Mirror.

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Infinix Note 3 Is The Most Searched for Android Smartphone of 2016 in Nigeria

According to Google’s year in search 2016, Infinix Note 3 was the most searched for Android smartphone in Nigeria. The smartphone following the lead of  Apple’s iPhone 7, beat Samsung Galaxy S7 on the top 10 list amongst other smartphones.

Apart from the Infinix Note 3, three Infinix smartphones also made it to the ‘Top 10 most searched mobile phone list’ in Nigeria in 2016 : the Infinix Hot 4; Infinix Zero 3 and Infinix Hot 2.  The Hot 4 and Note 3 were launched in 2016 while the Zero 3 and Hot 2 were launched in 2015.

The Infinix Note 3 which was one of the 5 major smartphones Infinix launched last year in Nigeria, has unbeatable smartphone features which are appreciated by smart phone users in Nigeria. The smartphone is still currently high in demand and you can still buy it at offline and online phone stores in Nigeria.

Infinix Note 3 Specs

• Android  6.0 Marshmallow
• 6.0 ” Full HD IPS display
• 2GB RAM
• 16GB internal memory; expandable to 120GB
• Octa Core Processor
• Dual SIM capability-  supports 2 micro SIM cards with extra memory card slot
• 13MP back camera with flash
• 5MP front-facing camera with front soft flash
• 4,500mAh non-removable battery
• Fingerprint scanner

Kindly note that the Infinix Zero 4 which was launched in December 2016, is the latest Infinix Smartphone in Nigeria as at the time of publishing this post.

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Fatal error : Allowed Memory Size of 134217728 bytes Exhausted On Wordpress - How I Fixed it

A web page on one of my websites powered by WordPress has not been accessible for some weeks now. So yesterday, I decided to check what might be the cause. I signed in to cPanel, checked the error log and discovered that it has been throwing the php "Allowed memory size error" that reads :

"PHP Fatal error :Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate xx bytes) in /home/xxxxx/public_html/wp-includes/meta.php on line 838"

After googling the error, I discovered that it is one of the common WordPress errors, which can simply be fixed by increasing the memory limit set in the php.ini or  the wp-config.php file.

I changed the limit in wp-config.php from 128M to 512M but failed to resolve the problem.

I set  the cPanel "File Manager" to display hidden files, yet couldn't find the php.ini file. So, I contacted my host to help me increase the memory limit in the php.ini file.

Guess what?

The error was fixed after the support staff increased the memory limit in the php.ini file to 512M.

So, if you can't fix the error by editing the wp-config.php file, try editing the php.ini file.


NB:

1. You can check for errors via file manager, public html > error log.

2. php.ini file is located in cPanel -> File Manager -> public_html folder. If not there, ask your host to add it for you. The support staff told me that he added it to mine by adding the code below to the .htaccess file :


<IfModule mod_suphp.c> suPHP_ConfigPath /home/MycPanelUsername/public_html </IfModule>

I hope this helps.

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