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WhatsApp New Feature Enables Users to Send Messages to Themselves

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Meta-owned messaging app Whatsapp has announced plans to roll out a new feature “message yourself”, that enables users to send messages to themselves.

With this new feature, Whatsapp seeks to ensure that users can easily access important messages such as reminders, to-do lists, notes, etc.

The “message yourself” feature which is slowly rolling out, is reportedly available to most Apple users and some Android users, as the company has disclosed that it will soon be made accessible to all users.

Messages sent by users to themselves will be visible on all their linked devices, which are end-to-end encrypted.

Users can also pin their self-chat messages to the top of the conversation list if they don’t want to go through the hassle of searching for their messages amid other chats.

How Users Can Use the WhatsApp “Message Yourself” feature

Step 1: Open your WhatsApp

Step 2: Click on the action button in the lower-right corner of the screen

Step 3: Users can find their contact at the top of the contact list

Step 4: Click on the contact and start messaging

Before the launch of this feature, Whatsapp in October 2022, embarked on testing improvements for sending messages to yourself on iOS and Android beta.

The “message yourself” feature will no doubt be very useful to those who use WhatsApp to take notes or those who use it to write things they want to buy when going for shopping.

Meanwhile, this feature is not new to some messaging platforms, as instant messaging platform Slack, has a feature titled “Jot Something Down” that enables users to send messages to themselves.

Also, a cloud-based instant messaging app, Telegram offers a similar feature called Saved Messages that lets users bookmark any important messages as well as save their notes and reminders that can be later accessed when needed.

WhatsApp’s “Message Yourself” feature comes shortly after the messaging platform in November, launched a new tool called communities, which lets users message multiple groups at once.

Remittance to Nigeria’s Foreign Reserve Has Dried Up – Central Bank of Nigeria

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday dropped a bombshell that has once again ignited discussion on Nigeria’s falling currency, the naira.

At the 57th Chartered institute of Bankers Nigeria (CIBN) annual lecture entitled: “Radical Responses to Abnormal Episodes: Time for Innovative Decision-making”, the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, while outlining policy thrust for 2023, expressed optimism that the short-term outlook of the Nigerian economy remains good.

While he projected that the rate of inflation will remain elevated and above the 12.5% growth-aiding threshold, Emefiele said that the CBN will maintain the current tight Monetary Policy stance in the near-term, “especially in view of rising inflation expectations and exchange market pressures.”

The CBN governor, while assuring Nigerians that the central bank will continue to act in the best interest of the economy, revealed that remittance to Nigeria’s foreign reserve has dried up.

“The official foreign exchange receipt from crude oil sales into our official reserves has dried up steadily from above US$3.0 billion monthly in 2014 to an absolute zero dollars today,” he said.

As Emefiele reiterates the need to boost Nigeria’s foreign exchange inflows through non-oil proceeds, it dawned on Nigerians that he had just revealed that the country’s foreign resee went from receiving $36 billion annually in 2014 to nothing in 2022 under his watch.

This underpins economic experts’ take on the naira’s free fall and Nigeria’s inflation. Experts have for long pointed at insufficient liquidity as the reason for the naira’s growing decline in the foreign exchange market, while Emefiele keeps pointing fingers at many things.

At the CIBN Annual Bankers Dinner, Emefiele blamed the current state of the naira on Nigerian students seeking education abroad. He said that Nigeria recorded a tremendous increase in visa issuances by the United Kingdom in 2022 alone.

According to him, the number of student visas given to Nigerians by the United Kingdom spiked from a yearly average of about 8,000 visas in 2020 to almost 66,000 in 2022, implying an eight-fold increase amounting to $2.5 billion yearly in study-related forex outflow to the UK alone.

He stated that the move had immensely put pressure on Nigeria’s foreign reserves and the Naira.

In September 2021, the central bank governor notoriously accused AbokiFX, an online FX aggregator, of economic sabotage. He said the forex rates publisher is responsible for the naira’s dwindling performance against the dollar, forcing it to shut down operations. The naira was at N570/$1 then.

Several months after AbokiFX suspended operation, the naira’s depreciation spiraled further downward. Emefiele said then that it was due to non-working refineries in the country, which forces the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) to spend as much as 40% of the proceeds from crude oil exports on importation of petroleum products – gulping the foreign exchange that should have built up the foreign reserve.

As 2022 winds down, the naira has been dangling below and above N800/$1 irrespective of Emefiele’s blames and monetary policies. The crisis has been duly traced to Nigeria’s low oil output mainly orchestrated by oil theft.

Nigeria is the only oil producing country that did not benefit from the oil windfall induced by the Russia-Ukraine war. This is because more than half of the oil produced in the West African country has been stolen, leaving the government with meager oil export that is significantly insufficient for the amount of forex liquidity required to boost the naira.

Against the backdrop of oil theft, Emefiele’s open admission that the foreign reserve is not receiving any remittance from the NNPCL, underscores the belief that his blame antics emanates from cluelessness – his inability to proffer a solution to Nigeria’s raging forex crisis. It also paints a gloom future for Nigeria as an oil-based economy. The country has taken to borrowing as the revenue shortfalls bite harder, shooting its public debt profile high.

With non-oil exports yielding insignificant forex proceeds, the oil theft-inspired revenue shortfalls mean that the naira’s recovery is still farfetched.

A few digital marketing tips for all brands

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In its digital marketing strategies, every brand should be able to effectively communicate the distinctive features of its industry, leveraging them in the creation of its online content and positioning itself even more effectively in its target market, taking every opportunity to clearly stand out from its competitors.

We are not just talking about the themes that best suit each product category and its online content, but certain intangible characteristics that represent the purest essence of each industry, such as dynamism, sophistication, passion, simplicity and many others. A brand specializing in interior design, for example, will have to do more than just communicate the functional characteristics of its products; it will also have to give each of its creations an aura of refinement and elegance that is specific to the industry, and which cannot be separated from everything else at all.

Among the tasks of online communication on social networks nowadays is also to discreetly express the founding characteristics of a brand, those often elusive and elusive elements that make up its essence, transforming them into a special bed on which to lay all the rest of the publications, whether corporate or product in nature, making the need for social media very clear.

The role of immateriality

Communication based essentially on technical, material, concrete features will have completely different effects on the network audience, and in all likelihood will bring no benefit in terms of leads or conversions.

On the other hand, content characterized by the co-presence of tangible and intangible elements, as indeed the distinctive features of an industry can be, has a completely different flavor, and seems to be animated by that touch of magic that makes it immediately distinguishable from cold posts devoted solely to the physicality of the product.

Sometimes, this effect can be achieved with words, perhaps by including a particularly elegant or sophisticated expression in the post, or even through a color choice of great aesthetic value, capable of producing a certain level of impact on observers.

In a social media such as Instagram, the innate characteristics of a particular industry can also be communicated through the color consistency of individual posts, which is clearly perceptible when scrolling through content from the main page of a profile, below the biography.

The case of Zain

A particularly interesting case study from this perspective is that of Zain, a Kuwaiti brand specializing in telecommunications. In its online communication strategy, articulated within the main website and several social media outlets, the brand managed to effectively and unobtrusively express the founding characteristics of a company specializing in telecommunications, through a content mix that was fully capable of adapting in the best possible way to the characteristics of the individual social networks used for its online communication.

The two main characteristics to be communicated, in this sense, were undoubtedly represented by the dynamism of modern telecommunications and the interconnection between people, fostered and nurtured precisely by the services offered by the Kuwaiti brand. On the brand’s profiles, these two features naturally emerge amidst all the other content posted, imposing themselves on the attention of every user with great effectiveness.

Anyone who consults even for a few minutes the brand’s profiles will certainly get the impression that they have visited the pages of a dynamic and people-serving company, particularly with regard to interconnectedness.

The trend of focusing communication activities around people, and their essential needs, has now become a real operational habit for a large number of companies, and not only in Kuwait. The point is that nowadays, in the face of changing consumer tastes and expectations, companies find themselves in the position of always having to offer very personalized and tailored services, giving the impression that they are devoting themselves body and soul to their consumer, just as is the case in Kuwait with the Zain brand.

The telecommunications sector, in Kuwait, is certainly not alone in offering specialized and extremely dynamic services for its users. The world of online entertainment, for example, continues to offer vast selections of online casinos in Kuwait and other games of the same genre, in order to allow anyone, regardless of their experience, to find the most suitable site where they can indulge in the pleasure of online entertainment, in a safe and perfectly legal manner.

The presence of reviews and invaluable guides, moreover, allows even beginners to start their online adventure in a simple and intuitive way, starting with registration and then continuing with the completion of the first deposit, until the actual game begins.

The real challenge, for today’s marketers, is to effectively communicate the intangible values of the brand as well, alongside the more material ones to create the perfect mix.

You’re Invited To Tekedia Mini-MBA Graduation Lecture

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Tekedia Institute is very excited to invite the general public to Tekedia Mini-MBA edition 9 graduation lecture on Saturday, Dec 3 at 7 pm WAT. Over the last 12 weeks, our learners have mastered the mechanics of markets, and acquired skills and knowledge systems from executives in leading global and local companies, on innovation, business growth and operational execution. More than 80 faculty taught in this edition in both our pre-recorded and live sessions.

In this graduation ceremony, Lead Faculty of Tekedia Institute, Ndubuisi Ekekwe, will deliver a graduation message titled  “Building Category-King Companies and Winning in Business”. Here are the details:

  • Graduation Lecture: Building Category-King Companies and Winning in Business
  • Date/Time:  Sat, Dec 3 | 7pm – 8.30pm WAT
  • Presenter: Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe
  • Zoom Link – here

This is a public event and is rated E for everyone.  Come and celebrate with our learners as they graduate this Saturday in Africa’s temple for the mastery of business and entrepreneurial capitalism.

To join the next edition of Tekedia Mini-MBA which begins on Feb 6, 2023, go here and register; massive discounts are available before the early bird ends.

Cardano (ADA) & Polygon (MATIC) Struggle To Yield Profit As Snowfall Protocol (SNW) Announce 100% Bonus On Investments!

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As the crypto community braces for the prolonged market dip, investors have been forced to reassess their portfolios and look for opportunities to increase profitability. While most coins are shedding value in anticipation of further depreciation, a few projects are instead rewarding existing token holders with special bonuses on investments. The result? A surge in demand for those coins, and is a great opportunity for investors looking for exponential gains. Let’s take a closer look at Cardano (ADA), Polygon (MATIC), and Snowfall Protocol (SNW) to see why their recent moves are driving their price predictions.

Snowfall Protocol (SNW) Announcement

First, let’s take a look at the Snowfall Protocol (SNW) announcement that sent the crypto community into a frenzy. Snowfall Protocol announced a 100% bonus on all new investments. The bonus was accompanied by an assurance that all investors will receive a double ROI as if they had invested without the bonus. This has led to a surge in demand for  Snowfall Protocol (SNW)  tokens and a sharp spike in its demand. The announcement has had such a positive impact on the token that it is drawing a lot of attention from investors of Cardano (ADA) and Polygon (MATIC) as well. This is also because of the fact that Snowfall is a new protocol backed by a strong team and historically that further increases investors’ probability of better returns. In contrast, both Cardano and Polygon are highly established projects with proven track records. So what’s behind the sudden demand for  Snowfall Protocol (SNW)  tokens?

About Snowfall

 Snowfall Protocol (SNW)  is a cross-chain bridge ecosystem allowing users to securely swap assets between blockchains. Snowfall Protocol is designed to optimize the security model between asset transfers, making it the most efficient cross-chain bridge available. Snowfall Protocol is also the first cross-chain transfer ecosystem built for fungible and non-fungible tokens. Snowfall will launch on Pancake Swap with iOS and Android apps in phase 2.

Cardano (ADA) & Polygon (MATIC) Struggle In Crypto Market

Now let’s take a look at Cardano (ADA) and Polygon (MATIC). Both coins have performed well in the past. However, their recent struggles in the market point toward growth issues. Cardano (ADA) is currently ranked as the 9th largest coin by market cap and has a price of $0.3104 at the time of writing. It has a daily trading volume of $220 million. In the last 3 months, the price of Cardano dropped from $0.4 to $0.31. Polygon (MATIC) is ranked 10th with a market cap of $7.2 billion and a price of $0.8263. It has a trading volume of $299 million in the last 24 hours at the time of writing. In the last 3 weeks, the price of Polygon fell from a peak of $1.25 to $0.82.

Why Cardano (ADA) and Polygon (MATIC) Are Struggling?

There are several factors that may be behind the difficulty of Cardano (ADA) and Polygon (MATIC) in performing in the current market. For one thing, both coins have performed well in the past. Investors may be offloading their coins to prevent further lows so that they can avoid losses. This could be preventing the coins from gaining momentum. Another possibility is that less experienced investors hold these coins. These investors may need help to recognize the growing pains that accompany rapid growth. So, even though Cardano and Polygon have demonstrated a high level of functionality, they may be struggling more in the future.

Why buy Snowfall (SNW) protocol token

So, why buy  Snowfall Protocol (SNW)  even though it’s an unproven protocol and has a low market cap? Well, Snowfall is a protocol that will be integrated into other DEXs. This means that the value of  Snowfall Protocol (SNW)  will likely increase by the same amount as the demand for DEXs and decentralized exchanges. In other words, the more DEXs or decentralized exchanges that use Snowfall, the more valuable the  Snowfall Protocol (SNW)  token will become. DEXs are expected to grow in popularity as the crypto market matures. This means that Snowfall has the potential to become a major player in the exchange ecosystem. It has the potential to grow just as quickly as the DEX ecosystem does. In the meantime, investors who buy  Snowfall Protocol (SNW)  tokens will also enjoy a limited-time bonus.

Conclusion

The young nature of the  Snowfall Protocol (SNW)  project makes returns probable up to 1000x on the coin. Cardano (ADA) and Polygon (MATIC) also have a promising future but investors will be able to generate 10-15% when the market starts correcting. The recent 100% bonus for investments on Snowfall is time-sensitive and rare for crypto projects, and we believe the token will soon be subscribed. Those wanting to invest in the  Snowfall Protocol (SNW)  protocol must act quickly.

 

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