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The biggest form of bravery is speaking up for truth and this is what friends of Ovaioza have done.

When allegations of fraud arose against Ovaioza, an agricultural business woman in Nigeria, her friends expressed disbelief and supported her claims that her business was only facing a regulatory issue with SEC, because she was collecting money from the public to trade with, without regulation from them. Believing this to be true, her friends stood by her on social media.


But on the 18th of February, her friends who are equally partners of her business, put out statements denouncing their support and stating that they had discovered proof that the allegations against Ovaioza were true. They had been lied to and kept in the dark while Ovaioza mismanaged funds raised by thousands of people for buying and selling of garri and other agricultural products.

In light of this, Ovaioza has been arrested and while in custody, she has agreed to liquidate her assets and start paying back the money.


Her friends who are also victims of this fraud, have called for Justice for everyone, reminding the public that standing for the truth is a civic responsibility, irrespective of who is involved. They did not cover up the fraud but took the risk to speak up in public, in order to salvage the situation and get justice.
Taking to Facebook, Marline Oluchi said;

“Ovaioza put structures in place to ensure that none of us suspected anything. That much I can see now. I am uncomfortable with the fact that people might see this post as me denying my friend because she is in trouble but this is fraud!
I WILL NEVER ENDORSE FRAUD!
Especially one where I am a victim.

I mean, I have so much money there!

A couple other people I can’t mention because they have not mentioned it here themselves, are partnering under me.
This is outside my family o.
My own money is there!”

maiiilooo:
Ok.let her be careful shaa.e get why .

Abi na

Mooh247:




Must Nigerians engage in fruad?!


Mutual fund investments exist everywhere in the world and they make their money investing and reinvesting people's money without fruad

BlackRock Inc, Vanguard group, JP Morgan, Charles web practically owns major shares in almost all the major global top companies and they invest people's money sharing legitimate profit


.

Omo. Stuff happens sha. I’ll not blame anyone.

It has been reported that Ovaioza of OFPSB is in police custody, for collecting billions of naira from people under the pretense of running an agricultural business of this volume, with a promise of profit for everybody who gives her money for partnership. This money is now unaccounted for, as she faces inability to pay back capitals to the public.

Her arrest came a night after her friends interrogated her on the news circulating on Facebook that she is a operating a Ponzi scheme. She admitted to losing most of the investors money given to her and could not pay back immediately. New evidence has also surfaced showing that she was involved in forgery.

Taking to Facebook, her friend, Marline Oluchi, verified the loss of their money invested in the company, showing evidence that she also lost 27.9million naira to the investment. With other friends identified as Ikechukwu Okafor, Eneze Bello and others, they called on the public to take legal action to recover their money.

Gentlerespect76:
You demonstrated lack of understanding of this country's security issues by listing the names of the alleged whistle blowers. Why do you have to do this or you just want to be mischievous? Please edit those names.

Some of Those people were her close circle and have even been suspected to be a part of the organized crime. They want their names cleared and have given consent to their names being published.

In what has been described as the biggest case of mismanagement of funds for 2022, Ovaioza, the founder of OFPSB was recently arrested for mismanaging billions of naira raised from the public, for a partnership in the buying and selling of agricultural goods.

Running a company that trades with crowdfunded funds, Ovaioza’s problems came to limelight when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), placed a restriction on all her bank accounts, for lack of compliance to monetary regulations policies. This led to notoriety for the company on social media and allegations of mismanagement of funds, fraud and forgery surfaced for the CEO, Ovaioza.

In light of this, her close friends who are known as her cliques, investigated and uncovered layers of multiple lies with proof that indeed, Ovaioza had been mismanaging funds and lying to everyone who gave her money through public crowdfunding, for partnership in her business with expected returns. This, they made public, stating that they are not a party to fraud and cannot shield a friend who is defrauding so many people.

In light of these revelations, Ovaioza has since been arrested and has promised to pay back all she owes to the public, as failure to do so will mean going to jail.


Friends who helped expose this financial fraud are
Chykah Bro
Marline Oluchi
Ikechukwu Okafor Stanley
Nwa Okpoko
Kelechi Chimgozirim
Sammy-El Nwabueze

On the 18th of April, 2020, Marline Oluchi and her friends, took to social media to expose facts of the civil crime they uncovered, perpetrated by Imu Yunusa, also known as Ovaioza.


Ovaioza, the founder of OFPSB, a seemingly thriving agricultural enterprise, was partnering with interested persons from the public who had funds for a business but could not run it themselves. She would collect the funds and use her market structure to buy and sell agricultural produce, taking 30% of all profit and giving her partners 70%.

Things went wrong when allegations of fraud surfaced online. Ovaioza revealed her business accounts had been restricted by SEC for operating on funds crowdfunded from their public within appropriate monetary regulations. To solve this problem, she retained the services of the prominent law firm, Chief Afe Babalola & Co.

After trying to defend her for weeks from the allegations of fraud, friends of Ovaioza, including Marline Oluchi, realized that their friend was not being honest and confronted her for facts in a meeting that lasted for about 8hours. Ovaioza admitted to mismanagement of the funds entrusted to her and also admitted to running the business on lies. She could not account for the money people gave her to trade with, nor could she account for the goods supposedly bought.


With the realization of fraud running into billions of naira with so many casualties, Marline Oluchi took to her Facebook account to share findings of their meeting, alerting all partners and enabling the arrest of Ovaioza.

Remanded in custody at FCID, FCT Command, Ovaioza has finally agreed to liquidate her assets and pay back all the money she collected from the public, including that of her friends, running into millions of naira.

On the 18th of April, 2020, Marline Oluchi and her friends, took to social media to expose facts of the civil crime they uncovered, perpetrated by Imu Yunusa, also known as Ovaioza.


Ovaioza, the founder of OFPSB, a seemingly thriving agricultural enterprise, was partnering with interested persons from the public who had funds for a business but could not run it themselves. She would collect the funds and use her market structure to buy and sell agricultural produce, taking 30% of all profit and giving her partners 70%.

Things went wrong when allegations of fraud surfaced online. Ovaioza revealed her business accounts had been restricted by SEC for operating on funds crowdfunded from their public within appropriate monetary regulations. To solve this problem, she retained the services of the prominent law firm, Chief Afe Babalola & Co.

After trying to defend her for weeks from the allegations of fraud, friends of Ovaioza, including Marline Oluchi, realized that their friend was not being honest and confronted her for facts in a meeting that lasted for about 8hours. Ovaioza admitted to mismanagement of the funds entrusted to her and also admitted to running the business on lies. She could not account for the money people gave her to trade with, nor could she account for the goods supposedly bought.


With the realization of fraud running into billions of naira with so many casualties, Marline Oluchi took to her Facebook account to share findings of their meeting, alerting all partners and enabling the arrest of Ovaioza.

Remanded in custody at FCID, FCT Command, Ovaioza has finally agreed to liquidate her assets and pay back all the money she collected from the public, including that of her friends, running into millions of naira.

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it is 2017, having non-responsive content on your website will cost you your users. Most WordPress themes have this issue of not automatically scaling your embedded videos when viewed on mobile, even though other parts of the website scales. This makes your videos a bit useless to mobile users. A non-mobile friendly website is bad for SEO
Non-responsive vs Responsive design
Non-responsive vs Responsive design

In this article, I’ll be showing you how to use a free Plugin – FitVids to automatically scale all your videos when viewed on mobile.

If you prefer not to install plugins, I’ll show you how to do this Programmatically.

FitVids is a Jquery plugin developed by Kevin Dees.

To fix the issue with this plugin simply install and activate the plugin, that’s all!

Your videos will now be well structured and very responsive on mobile devices. If you are not sure how to install plugins, you might want to go through my WordPress tutorial for starters.

Doing It Programmatically.

If you prefer not to install the plugin the plugin to your dashboard, perhaps you want to get your hands dirty with code, here is how.

First, you’ll need to download and extract FitVids Jquery plugin to your computer. Then extract the FitVids.js-master folder and upload it to your theme’s js directory.

If your theme does not have a JS directory, simply create one and then upload the file into it.

Inside the js folder, you need to create a new file and name it as FitVids.js. Copy the code below and paste it into the JS file you just created.

(function($) {
  $(document).ready(function(){
    // Target your .container, .wrapper, .post, etc.
    $(".post&quot.fitVids();
  });
   
  })(jQuery);

What the above code does is that it tells FitVids to look for .post CSS Selector.

After this, edit your functions.php file in your theme and add the code below.

wp_enqueue_script('fitvids', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/FitVids.js-master/jquery.fitvids.js', array('jquery'), '', TRUE);
wp_enqueue_script('fitvids-xtra', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/FitVids.js', array(), '', TRUE); 

And that’s all . Congratulations! You just worked on your WordPress installation like a Badass! Your videos will be responsive on mobile devices now.

Did this work for you? Please tell me in the comment section below.

Source : https://w3tutor.org/wordpress/make-videos-responsive-wordpress/

Instagram, with over 700 million users and daily post activity of 95 million, is one of the world’s largest Social media. Making good use of social media will greatly improve your Search engine ranking and ultimately improve your online presence. In this article, I’ll show you top 10 techniques that will help you build a solid brand presence on Instagram.

Read also: How to improve Your SEO by over 60%
1. Hashtags are a must use

Hashtags (#) are very important not just for Instagram, but for almost every networking app. With hashtags, you can reach people who are interested in your niche or a particular trend without them even following you.

Hook onto trending common Hashtags in your field e.g #DigitalMarketing or you can make use of a more specific Hashtag like #SEO or even narrow it down more for better click throughs e.g #Anchortexts. Each way you choose be sure to monitor the outcomes and either keep doing that if it works, or choose another method if it does not.

Below are some key findings on Hashtags that will convince you about the power of Hashtags.

Key Findings

88% of brand posts include at least one hashtag.
91% of posts by top brands have seven or fewer hashtags.
Posts with at least one hashtag average 12.6% more engagement.

Read more : Optimizing your web speed.
2. Optimize your entire profile.

There is a very popular quote: “You are addressed the way you dress”. Well, this is also the case in Social Media. The way your profile looks attributes to the way people take your brand. Consider the below:

If you’re branding yourself as an expert in your niche, upload a very professional photo, a chest level length image is perfect, not a full shot. Or a very crisp logo of your company.

Always include a link back to your website. You may want to create a landing page specifically for Instagram visitors or change up the link destination to promote your current campaign or content.

Use your company logo somewhere in your profile so users know it’s the official profile for your company.
Consider adding one brand-specific hashtag to your profile so users know it ‘belongs’ to you.
Include your physical location if you have a local business.
Make sure your images and other content are consistent with your other social media properties.

3. Follow People

You might be tempted to avoid following people back in an attempt to have more followers than those you are following. Well, sorry to burst your bubbles, unless you’re a well-known brand, you can’t get away with this. Always follow your followers and also actively look for influencers in your field and follow them.

A tool like Keyhole will allow you to search users and posts by Hashtag and sort the results based on the number of likes they have received.

Follow users who follow influencers in your niche, this will help you build a community around them.
4. Post engaging photos and videos.

Spice up the content you release. Avoid monotony. People can easily get bored of the content a brand pushes if it’s the same always. You can utilize:

User submitted articles, Teaser images of new products. e.t.c

Photos can perform better than videos. With images, everyone can see the content without necessarily clicking on it as they scroll down their news feed. This is not always the same with videos.
5. Offer Value to People

One way to get the attention of people as a brand is by offering irresistible value to them.

Give out freebies occasionally, give coupons, offer free tutorials on how to fix stuff.

If your practice this you’d get the attention of not just your clients, but to investors too.
6. Use Instagram ads to further expand your reach

With Instagram ads, you can target users who are interested in your niche and get them to follow you or to visit your website. This is well worth the cost. Every big brand invests heavily in advertisements.
7. Make use of the right tools to help streamline your efforts.

There are tools that will help you streamline your efforts on Instagram.

One of Forbes premium writer’s favourite multi-purpose tools is Iconosquare (formerly Statigr.am). It allows you to access your account via your web browser, find out which of your photos and videos are getting the most engagement, and track who is following and unfollowing you.

Other tools worth mentioning are Schedugram (for scheduling your posts), INK361 (a full-service tool for viewing, scheduling and managing your posts) and Piqora (for helping you find engaging posts to share with your audience).
8. Be consistent

Create content and post on Instagram consistently. Don’t abandon the platform for a week or a month and then pick it up again. If you’re very busy with the affairs of running the brand, you can hire a professional to manage your social media accounts.
9. Make sure your Images truly reflect your brand.

Be careful to assure that your Images always reflect your brand. If you are all about Digital Marketing be sure to only post images that are related to that. Don’t post images or videos of a very fast car you believe is fancy. Protect your brand Image.
10. Be part of the Instagram Community

Use Instagram to build a geniune relationship with people.

There are many ways to build and/or be part of a community on Instagram. Using hashtags allows you to connect with users you may never otherwise have met. Liking and commenting on other people’s photos gets you engaged with the greater community (and often helps you grow your own followers as people reciprocate). Participating in Instagram campaigns intended to further a worthy cause can help you contribute to a greater good (#movember is a great example of a cause perfectly suited for a visual-centric platform like Instagram). Sharing images and videos from events can help your followers feel like they’re in on the action, and are a real part of your community.

Is there any important strategy I’ve missed? Which of these worked for you. Let me know in the comments below.

Source : https://w3tutor.org/design-branding/10-instagram-marketing-strategies-every-brand-needs-to-know/

Technology is currently the most trending topic on the internet. Especially the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As time goes, evolution occurs. It's always good to follow the trend of happenings.

In this post I'm going to show you the top 10 tech courses / trends for 2017 backed up with facts.

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advanced Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence is one tech niche that is most research and studied. It is being said that AI is the future of Technology. Over the years, there seemed to be a decline in AI research, but things changed in 2016 when Mark Zukerberg launched his AI assistant - Jarvis .

This has increased the interest rate of interest in AI drastically, with many individuals and firms now investing into the field of AI. Even Pornography and adult firms are now investing into Robotics.

This proves that there will be an increase in demand for AI experts and developers come 2017. You can get started with an Introductory course to Artificial Intelligence in W3tutor.org/courses.

2. Python Programming Language

Python is a widely used high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Python is an awesome language for beginners too. It's so easy that it is the number 1 introductory language in schools for programming and also the most popular coding language and it's so powerfull that it powers parts of Gooogle, Youtube and Facebook. Python is also Important in AI, as it also powers Mark Zukerberg's Jarvis.

3. Java Programming Language

"Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible." - Wkipedia. Over the years the demand for Java Programmers in companies is not declining at all. Java powers Android, some parts of Google and many top notch websites like Facebook all use Java.

4. Website Development

When I say Website development skills, I mean a good knowledge of : HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP. Entrepreneurship is now the coolest topic since the launch of Uber. Many people want to jump in and "become Entrepreneurs". This includes both tech experts to those who don't know how to boot a PC. Every business needs an online presence. The demand for web developers would continually increase.

5. App Developers

This was listed as one of the hottest jobs in 2016 and still makes it in the top 5 tech trends of 2017, you can see why they are in demand here.

6. Computer System Analyst.

As long as people use computers and write software for them, someone will need to troubleshoot problems when things go wrong, aka the systems analyst. Growth for this job is expected to climb 21% through 2024.

7. Database Admin.

"A database administrator (DBA) is responsible for the performance, integrity and security of a database. They will also be involved in the planning and development of the database, as well as troubleshooting any issues on behalf of the users." - Prospects.

Almost every web and mobile application has a database , there has been an increased growth rate of jobs in this area.

8. Network and Computer Systems Administrator

A Network and Computer Systems Administrator is a job that will never die out; all organizations require someone who can service their servers and routers.

CareerCast ranked Network and Computer Systems Administrators at number 13 on their list.

9. Data Scientist

Data Scientists earned on average $128,240 in 2016. And thanks to the boom in all things data and big data, demand for this skill isn't going away anytime soon.

Jobs for data scientists are expected to rise 16% through 2024. - Forbes

10. IT Security Specialists

IT security professionals ranked the highest in the Emerson Network Power survey because they need to make important decisions on the spot -- 89 percent agree or strongly agree with this description. More than half of IT security specialists believe their success depends on things outside their control. However, they are directly accountable for the security of company networks.

Conclusion

To stay relevant in the field of Tech, you need to be very flexible. Adobt new methods - be an early adopter. You need to learn as much as you can. Learning any of the above skills assures you of a job in 2017.

radiokilla:
that's an A+ fie an onpage seo. good one

thanks bro.. My pleasure.... Learn more of such @ blog.w3tutor.org

IMPORTANCE OF SITEMAPS


There are many SEO tips and tricks that help in optimizing a site but one of those, the importance of which is sometimes underestimated is sitemaps. Sitemaps, as the name implies, are just a map of your site – i.e. on one single page you show the structure of your site, its sections, the links between them, etc. Sitemaps make navigating your site easier and having an updated sitemap on your site is good both for your users and for search engines. Even reknown websites such as Google and W3tutor.org use Sitemaps.
Sitemaps are an important way of communication with search engines. While in robots.txt you tell search engines which parts of your site to exclude from indexing, in your site map you tell search engines where you’d like them to go.

Sitemaps are not a novelty. They have always been part of best Web design practices but with the adoption of sitemaps by search engines, now they become even more important. However, it is necessary to make a clarification that if you are interested in sitemaps mainly from a SEO point of view, you can’t go on with the conventional sitemap only (though currently Yahoo! and MSN still keep to the standard html format). For instance, Google Sitemaps uses a special (XML) format that is different from the ordinary html sitemap for human visitors.

One might ask why two sitemaps are necessary. The answer is obvious – one is for humans, the other is for spiders (for now mainly Googlebot but it is reasonable to expect that other crawlers will join the club shortly). In that relation it is necessary to clarify that having two sitemaps is not regarded as duplicate content. In ‘Introduction to Sitemaps‘, Google explicitly states that using a sitemap will never lead to penalty for your site.

Why Use a Sitemap
Using sitemaps has many benefits, not only easier navigation and better visibility by search engines. Sitemaps offer the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site. Of course, you cannot expect that search engines will rush right away to index your changed pages but certainly the changes will be indexed faster, compared to when you don’t have a sitemap.

Also, when you have a sitemap and submit it to the search engines, you rely less on external links that will bring search engines to your site. Sitemaps can even help with messy internal links – for instance if you by accident have broken internal links or orphaned pages that cannot be reached in other way (though there is no doubt that it is much better to fix your errors than rely on a sitemap).

If your site is new, or if you have a significant number of new (or recently updated pages), then using a sitemap can be vital to your success. Although you can still go without a sitemap, it is likely that soon sitemaps will become the standard way of submitting a site to search engines. Though it is certain that spiders will continue to index the Web and sitemaps will not make the standard crawling procedures obsolete, it is logical to say that the importance of sitemaps will continue to increase.

Sitemaps also help in classifying your site content, though search engines are by no means obliged to classify a page as belonging to a particular category or as matching a particular keyword only because you have told them so.

Having in mind that the sitemap programs of major search engines (and especially Google) are still in beta, using a sitemap might not generate huge advantages right away but as search engines improve their sitemap indexing algorithms, it is expected that more and more sites will be indexed fast via sitemaps.

Generating and Submitting the Sitemap
The steps you need to perform in order to have a sitemap for your site are simple. First, you need to generate it, then you upload it to your site, and finally you notify Google about it.

Depending on your technical skills, there are two ways to generate a sitemap – to download and install a sitemap generator or to use an online sitemap generation tool. The first is more difficult but you have more control over the output. You can download the Google sitemap generator fromhere. After you download the package, follow the installation and configuration instructions in it. This generator is a Python script, so your Web server must have Python 2.2 or later installed, in order to run it.

The second way to generate a sitemap is easier. There are many free online tools that can do the job for you. For instance, have a look at this collection of Third-party Sitemap tools. Although Google says explicitly that it has neither tested, nor verified them, this list will be useful because it includes links to online generators, downloadable sitemap generators, sitemap plugins for popular content-management systems, etc., so you will be able to find exactly what you need.

After you have created the sitemap, you need to upload it to your site (if it is not already there) and notify Google about its existence. Notifying Google includes adding the site to your Google Sitemaps account, so if you do not have an account with Google, it is high time to open one. Another detail that is useful to know in advance is that in order to add the sitemap to your account, you need to verify that you are the legitimate owner of the site.

Currently Yahoo! and MSN do not support sitemaps, or at least not in the XML format, used by Google. Yahoo! allows webmasters to submit “a text file with a list of URLs” (which can actually be a stripped-down version of a site map), while MSN does not offer even that but there are rumors that it is indexing sitemaps when they are available onsite. Most likely this situation will change in the near future and both Yahoo! and MSN will catch with Google because user-submitted site maps are just a too powerful SEO tool and cannot be ignored

How To Improve SEO?
At some point in a bloggers life cycle,this question pops up a lot. There are lots of reasons why webmasters want to have a better SEO, this includes:
Increased Page views in search engines
To earn better in PPC programmes
To get committed clients est.
So What Is SEO?

Search Engine optimization(SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s unpaid results – often referred to as “natural”, “organic” or “earned” results. The earlier and more frequently a site appears on search page, the more visitors it gets.

Now that you know what SEO is, let’s dive into the the techniques of improving it.

URL STRUCTURE- To increase your chances of appearing on the first page of Google and other search engines, you need to have an “SEO friendly URL”. An SEO FRIENDLY URL looks like this: w3tutor.org/how-to-improve-your-seo. An unfriendly URL looks like this: w3tutor.org/p?1246. The URL to every page or post on your website should explain its content or give a clue of what it contains e.g- w3tutor.org/courses gives an idea that you are about to view an archive of courses. Search engines love such URLs and will reward you with a nice rank. You can setup an SEO friendly link in your settings- permalinks. All CMS allows you to enable this feature. Set it to postname structure.
INDEX-WORTHY CONTENT- This is very important. The contents of your webpage should be fairly large and meaningful and updated frequently. Don’t create a post of less than 50 words and expect to be indexed by search engines. Your posts should also flaunt an originality of it’s own. Trust me, you won’t do so well if you copy he whole post on another website and paste it in yours. Google spider will penalize you.
Page Speed- If Google or any other search engine discovers a lag or slow speed in your website, your SEo is likely to drop. Read up my tutorial on how to improve website speed to give your web site an incredible speed.
Content structure and links- This one is a bit long. This concept was gotten from my knowledge of Google’s bot way of working. For simplicity sake, I’ll use this post as a case study. The title of this post is “How To Improve Your Seo”, the link is also w3tutor.org/how-to-improve-your-seo. The first sentence lis “How To Improve Your Seo” and it’s heading is bold. The featured image of this post is “How To Improve Your Seo”.jpg with an alt tag “How To Improve Your Seo” . The metadata of this post is “How To Improve Your Seo”, and this post is now saturated with “How To Improve Your Seo” . This gives this post an A in SEO. ANYONE searching for SEO will definitely run across my site!.
Sitemap- A sitemap collects all your sites URLs and tells search engines exactly how to index your webpage. visit xml sitemap website for more on this. I recommend xml sitemaps . WordPress users can make use of JETPACKs sitemap service. More Info Below.
NOW YOU KNOW HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SEO. YOU ARE GOOD TO GO!.

For WordPress users- These tools below will help your SEO (basically they remind you to do what I just thought you and helps you do them)

WordPress SEO by Yoast- This plugin is great! I use it in this website. It has an XMl Sitemap service and every other SEO tool you will ever need. Download it from the “ADD NEW” panel in your plugins dashboard.
Google Sitemap- This is strictly a sitemap provider.
My advice- Install WordPress SEO by Yoast and use it together with Google XML sitemap. Don’t use Yoast for sitemaps
UPDATE– It may take some time before Google starts indexing your posts, but if you have quality posts once they start they’ll never stop, as long as you keep these rules.

That’s all for now. hope you loved it.

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