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Maxibrain07:
Am in the same dilemma as you. But I want to learn copywriting to be earning little income while I focus on full stacks development

Thanks bro
But do you have the necessary equipment to start copywriting?

I am thinking of a short term skill before I focus on my main skill which is UX design and video editing.
I am thinking about learning car driving.
Please if you can suggest any
Please comment

BluntCrazeMan:
Today is Monday - 20th February, 2023.
(Other towns around Awka might be doing Sit-At-Home though; but here in Awka, there is nothing like that)

So, this morning, I decided to go to Eke-Awka Market and do my weekly re-stocking.

** I would like to state it categorically here, that last week Monday, I had to first-of-all buy the Old-Notes at 30%-charges from the POS-Operators in order to enter market, and I was asking the sellers ahead of time whether they would accept the old-notes before I would even enter their shops to start pricing. But today, the story was totally different.

Before today, within the past weekend, that is, after the official deadline of the usage of the old-notes, the Markets had already stopped accepting the old-notes, but then, there is serious shortage of the new notes..
They are not available in the banks, they are not available in the hands of the POS-Operators, they are not available in the Markets, they are not available anywhere..
And now, some of the market people had resorted to accepting cashless transfers, (since they do not have POS machines), while some are still rejecting the cashless transfers - they either collect cash, or they won't sell anything.

So today, I just have to go to the market in order to re-stock for the week.

It happened that, just the way I used to ask the sellers ahead of time last week whether they would accept old-notes, that was exactly the way I was asking the sellers again today ahead of time, whether they would accept cashless transfers.

Some of them accepted.
Some of them did not accept.

Even some of my familiar sellers - who used to call me their regular customer - did not agree to accept cashless transfer, and I had to leave them and find any other available seller that would accept cashless transfer for payment, in order to buy the things I needed.

I walked the length-and-bredth of the market today.
Not because I couldn't see what I wanted to buy, but because I couldn't easily find people who are ready to accept cashless transfers for payment.
At the end of the day, I was so tired and stressed-out.

The major reasons why they were rejecting the cashless transfers were that, The suppliers that they are buying the goods from in bulk do not accept cashless transfers, so if they accept cashless transfers themselves, they would not have their own physical cash at the end of the day for them to pay those suppliers in order to collect more goods to sell., since it would be very hard to get out the needed cash from their accounts. Others don't even have bank accounts in the first place.

And to the most embarrassing experience of it all --- the cashless transfer procedure itself.

There is not enough Data-Services Network Signals inside the Eke-Awka Market, no MTN, no 9mobile, no Airtel Data-Services Signals..
After buying anything, one would stand there and be retrying for many times to no end, trying to be lucky enough to find the slightest signals and have the transactions successfully completed.
Some times, bank-network down-time or overcrowding of the bank-network might also be part of the reasons the cashless transfer transactions were delaying.

NOBODY IN THE MARKET IS EVEN TALKING ABOUT THE CONTINUOUS CHARGES ON ALL THE TRANSACTIONS, (AND FOR THE USSD-SESSION CHARGES OF N6.98 FOR EACH SUCCESSFUL USSD-TRANSFER --- THAT IS, FOR THOSE THAT WERE USING THE USSD-OPTION).

At the end of the day,, all the charges for all those cashless transfers I did (that is, up to 11 transfers of varying amounts) were close to N250 (Two Hundred and Fifty Naira).

And again, the whole cashless transfer processes has already started to raise some serious security concerns.

There used to be serious phone thefts in markets, phone snatching, and broad-daylight robberies inside the markets, and the market securities as well as the Nigeria Police Force wouldn't do anything about them..

They would only be warning people (sellers and buyers alike) to stop coming to the market with their phones in order to avoid stories that touch the heart.

But with this recent development, there are going to be lots of phones coming to the market, and these phones would not be hidden any longer..
The phones will come out from their hiding places in order to perform their needed necessary duties of cashless transfers.

Thus, it is only a matter of time before the stories of broad-daylight phone robberies would return back to our markets again, unless something is done about the security system around our markets. Or maybe, if the cash becomes available. But for the meantime, we still need to bring out our phones inside the market in order to do cashless transfers.

Some religious fanatics might not come out open to tell you outrightly that the reason they are Not accepting transfer is because they are afraid of the Revelation Chapter-13 Verses16-&-17; which says that:
“16. The beast forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, slave and free, to have a mark placed on their right-hands or on their foreheads.
17. No one could buy or sell without having this mark, that is, the beast's name or the number that stands for the name.”

Thus,, they were already assuming within themselves that the ‘Cashless Policy’ is the The Beast here, and that ‘Having A Bank Account’ is the same thing as Accepting the Mark of the Beast - by submitting one’s personal data to the Beast in order to have access to the Cashless Money.
Thus, they have decided not to have any account with any bank, in order not to accept the mark of the beast.
Such persons have already made up their minds to continue to suffer the current hardship of insufficient cash and wait patiently for whatever the unclear future holds, while those who have accepted the cashless policy should continue to buy and sell in their newly-found methods for the moment.
To them, “The Great Tribulation” had already started.




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**MEANWHILE...
THERE ARE SOME AREAS THAT NEED URGENT ATTENTION..

1. The Government, the CBN, and the Banks should minimize the Charges on Cashless Transfers.. Maybe, single transfers below N10,000 shouldn't be charged at all., But then, the accumulated transactions on any account by the end of everyday that are above N10,000 can be charged once by 11:59pm/12:00am. The charges at the end of everyday might have to be categorized and graded based on the range of the accumulated transaction-amounts by the end of the day.

2. The CBN’s threshold for the “Electronic Transfer Fee” should be N500,000.
N10,000 is too small for such a charge.
It doesn't encourage having money paid into people's bank accounts.
It's even worse that the “Electronic Transfer Fee” is also charged when someone pays CASH into someone's account,, not even transfer --- which is so bad

3. Phone-Network Service-Providers and the Data-Service Providers should upgrade their services., especially inside the major markets, and also within the markets that are inside the hinterlands too.. The same thing should also be applied to all the banks too. They should always ensure that their bank-networks are available, so that their customers would not be standing so embarrassed inside the markets while waiting for the cashless transfer transactions to become successful.

4. The Government as well as the Local Owners of the markets should do everything possible to increase the security system in the markets.

That's my problem will this cashless policy, no network to do transfer, bank and pos charges also.
These makes the process frustrating.
If all this measure is done, especially let every shop have pos machine or bank account, I will agree with the policy.

Please o Did apc still borrow crowd from neighbouring state?

pocohantas:
Well said. Maybe public transport vehicles have been using their street as a bypass, so they put this in place to discourage them.

Exactly. Also, that area might be a rural area so bikes is predominantly used so it might not affect them

Send me your aza make i send you #500 den you go withdraw #400 from pos.
I no try.

But please boss tell me the name of your abitrage trading thread. I seriously need or if possible send me the link.

I know say you never chop but manage small energy.

It is a good strategy to catch thief But i pity them during rainy season. Or maybe them use am to indirectly stop car from passing.

It is a good strategy to catch thief But i pity them during rainy season. Or maybe them use am to indirectly stop car from passing.

Give us constant electric power and we might forget the name but for now, nothing will change

Palastain are killing dogs here and there but we are stealing our neighbour dogs. We should beg them na maybe the could dash us as a humanitarian effort

Greattestman:
This issue has been eating me up for so long and i don't know what to do. My mother began pressurizing me to rent my own house and leave her alone.

It was unprecedented and i don't expect that from her. I'm barely 20 and I teach in a private school. I also do home lessons so my monthly income ranges from 25k to 30k or thereabout.

This money will not be enough for me to rent a house, buy my food and take care of myself. I have tried to explain but she refused to understand with me. She told her friends to advice me to leave; that I'm matured enough to live alone.

I'm pressed and I need your advice.

See that your monthly salary is enough to take care of yourself if you plan well.
Except you day fear to stay alone.

ahnie:
The tubers I got were big Sha.... normally you could get them for #2500 per tuber in my hood,things are pretty expensive.

I got 6 pieces for #7200 as against #6600 mama don catch mugu,but wetin she nor know be say,she would never see me in her shed again.

Madam you should have try other yam sellers na.

Hello investors in the house Between currency abitrage and crypto abitrage, which one is more profitable.

SKhanmi:
Absolutely, they were both in-depth courses taught by professionals with relevant global industry experience. One focused majorly on UX and the other on UI. One doesn't need multiple courses, get the foundational knowledge & practice constantly/join internships.

Yeah, Nigerian based.

Thank you for your input.
Did you also used youtube videos for your projects?
Is your internship remote based?

SKhanmi:
I spent a lot of time researching so I come across a lot of free resources and valuable information, Almost paid for stutern uiux training back then before I got the scholarship from an Egyptian company. It all depends on the amount of information available to you.

Thanks

Thank you for your update.
But can you say you can confidently become where you are now with only those two courses i.e without the egyptian scholarship.

In addition, is your internship nigeria based?

SKhanmi:
1 intensive course on scholarship (Udacity UX Nanodegree) 1 Bootcamp (Joseph Brendan's) 35k.

You mean internships or side hustles? Yes. Having regular Power & Data is very important.

Laptop, 8gb 256ssd, keyboard light, Double batteries for extended use time.

Thank you very much for your reply.
35k for all the courses is quite a still o, i thought you spend 500k in courses o.
Baba more oyel for your head

SKhanmi:
Did only one today,Looks great on mobile.

Copied & modified sleekcode design template.

Remains 2.

OP i followed your thread to this point and i can say it is a wonderful learn experience and i hope to join you too.
But i have 3 questions.
*how much do you spend in courses/bootcamps till this point.
*did how side hustle or a job to fuel your process?
*did you use laptop or desktop. And what is your laptop specification.

Look at the environment where things are working. Imagine employee sue his employer hmmm see mind. But in my side who you be to sue your oga.

Uprightness100:
Palestinians tortured and killed dozens of dogs on the streets after the mayor of Hebron offered 20 shekels to anyone who killed a dog in his city.

Only heartless people can do this to dogs. What they do to others will come back to them like boomerangs.

( Naftali)

They should not kill the dogs na
They should just send it to this part of the world where we will use it to prepare suya.
But see they way they are wasting animals.

Chai

This is one of the major reason i advise people to also try freelancing because you must always get projects if you are good.

That is a simple logic that everybody should emulate but enjoyment and some kind of things on go let us to concentrate.

Ejiod:
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We are following o Please start from your previous experience before you continue from now

Sleekcode:
working on crypto project

Please can you explain in nft is made. In a layman language. I mean from coding to design.

Sleekcode:
working on crypto project

Sir sleek
I read your thread and i have learn new things especially the nft project.
But i thought nft is simply creating the picture on photoshop and posting it on various platforms but now i know better.
Please can you explain a bit of crypto project you are working on?

Anyway i love your thread.
Keep up the good work.

robinso01:
It's better you go for Video editing, rather than photo editing. Most photographers these days now know how to edit. There are numbers of videographers who doesn't know how to edit. Unless you will combine photography with your editing.

Thank you for your suggestion
But can i start editing photos before moving to video editing?

I mean just you, your laptop or desktop, and your editing software. All you need to do is edit photo only?

Please i need your suggestion concerning 'photo editing' gig.
Can i make a living off it? Is the gig lucrative in nigeria market? Please do you know someone that is doing such job?
I need your answer because i want to try such.

In my area, photographer charge #300 per picture both studio and outdoor. Some charge #500 and #700
Oya start sending your comment

Fredmatic:
Copywriting is ,Good when you use it for yourself to create blog post and own a site not for freelance..
Graphics design is good for freelance but you won't make much there bcus apart from saturation there are many site or app can help to design this things so fast canva is one of them. I can design whatever I want without paying a designer. You can go for it though
If you search most search after IT jobs on YouTube both of them are not among . I am learning data analysis and data science then earn with it. The difficult the learning skills the better it is and also the earning power.

Thank you for your input

Please i need honest suggestions from you.
Which one is more lucrative for freelancing between
Writing: content writing, blog post writing, and ghostwriting

And

Graphic design: logos, flyers, banner, posters and cv designs.
I also want to know how saturated are they in the freelancing and jobs searching market.
Your answer will help me

Hello
How much did you buy it?

Youngsage:
Good morning Emmex. I have one small laptop up for sale, a Lenovo ThinkPad and it's 4GB RAM. But if you can double your offer I can let you have it.

Hit me up on WhatsApp o.9ine.o.3.3.7.4.1.8.3.5ive if you're interested.

That is 60k, sorry I don't currently have such money