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2017 deals for Nigerian students, we want to hire you

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Move over MMM, welcome innovation and training. We are looking for Students Ambassadors  to cover all universities, colleges of education, and polytechnics across Nigeria. This is to assist the enrollment of students in our online cybersecurity business, First Atlantic Cybersecurity Institute (Facyber), which is U.S.based, but coordinated in Nigeria by Fasmicro.

About the Job
First Atlantic Cybersecurity Institute (Facyber) is a cybersecurity training, consulting and research company specializing in all areas of cybersecurity including Cybersecurity Policy, Management, Technology, Intelligence and Digital Forensics.  The clientele base covers universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, governments, government labs and agencies, businesses, civil organizations, and individuals. Specifically, the online courses are designed for the needs of students of any discipline or field (CS, Engineering, Law, Policy, Business, etc) with the components covering policy, management, and technology. Please see complete Facyber curricula here.

The programs are structured thus:

  • Certificate Program (Online 12 weeks)
  • Diploma Program (Online 12 weeks)
  • Nanodegree Program (Live 1 week)

The purpose of a Students Ambassador is to promote Facyber training programs in the respective campus. The incumbent will coordinate the enrollment of students in his/her campus. When necessary, the incumbent will help coordinate cybersecurity and digital forensics seminars/workshops in the campus in partnership with Fcyber local partner, Fasmicro.

Qualifications for Students Ambassador include:
•         Be an active student of the school to be represented
•         No sales experience needed
•         Tech-savvy with strong presence in social media
•         Relationship development skills a must. You must be self-driven . We want students with good networks in  their schools.

All the students will report remotely to our Director of Campus Initiatives who is based in Owerri, Nigeria.

Qualified applicants are encouraged to send an intent email (add a short CV please) to info@facyber.com. We plan to have 2-3 students per school and once we meet our targets, the opportunities will close.

This is an opportunity to earn extra naira while in school, so do not delay.

What Nigerian government can learn on how China supports “iPhone City” to make it competitive

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There are many things any government can learn from Chinese government. One of those will of course be building industrial cities and make them global centers of attractions. The “iPhone City” is a case in point.

The key to Apple’s China operation is perks—lots of them. The world’s biggest iPhone factory—capable of producing 500,000 phones a day—is a Foxconn outfit in Zhengzhou, China, dubbed “iPhone City” by locals. In a detailed glimpse  at China’s efforts to lure overseas companies, New York Times reporter David Barboza documents the string of incentives that make iPhone City possible—everything from construction subsidies to recruiting help to bonuses for high production.

The well-choreographed customs routine is part of a hidden bounty of perks, tax breaks and subsidies in China that supports the world’s biggest iPhone factory, according to confidential government records reviewed by The New York Times, as well as more than 100 interviews with factory workers, logistics handlers, truck drivers, tax specialists and current and former Apple executives. The package of sweeteners and incentives, worth billions of dollars, is central to the production of the iPhone, Apple’s best-selling and most profitable product.

Now you can see how China makes cities function. Nigeria, over to you in 2017.

For Nigerians, a better bigger investment opportunity than MMM in 2017

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Good people and great nation, there is a better opportunity than MMM. The investment is putting your time and efforts to work with Facyber in your city or location across Nigeria and become a representative.

We recently unveiled a top-grade cybersecurity training portal (facyber.com) from our U.S. office. Using the experiences we have gathered from running Milonics Analytics, my IBM PartnerWorld business, we created this portal to help governments, organizations and individuals deepen their cybersecurity capabilities. All the programs are here.

The programs are structured around Policy, Management, Technology and Digital Forensics making sure that anyone in any field will find value therein. Lawyers, law enforcement etc may be interested in policy while the techies have the technology component. More details of programs are available here.

We want to  channel the energy of Nigerians from MMM to something far better. We offer generous revenue sharing with partners.

Let us know the possibility of working with you. Our platform offers better deals than MMM – get people through your social media, let them use a code we will give and just like that, you are up and earning.

Facyber offers money-back guarantee within a week of enrollment. So it does not cost anyone you bring any risk.

Regards,

 

Facyber Team

Consumer Reports will not change its review outcome on Apple’s MacBook Pro

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Apple  is certainly not happy for the outcome of Consumer Reports testing of its MacBook Pro.

The nonprofit organization is standing by its initial verdict in which it did not give the MacBook Pro (2016) its “recommended” rating. The organization has now said it doesn’t think re-running the tests will change anything.

“In this case, we don’t believe re-running the tests are warranted for several reasons. First, as we point out in our original article, experiencing very high battery life on MacBooks is not unusual for us – in fact we had a model in our comparative tests that got 19 hours,”

Apple has challenged the findings but Consumer Reports does not plan to change the outcome – MacBook Pro is not Recommended.

Seven FinTech Trends for Nigeria in 2017: QR Code Payment, USSD and More

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by SOLA FANAWOPO

With the end of the year approaching, the amount of forecasts for 2017 is steadily increasing. How will the local FinTech industry develop and what will be the next big thing?

One can foresee the next Fintech trends more realistically by looking at the current developments. Exactly, they will determine the course for the next year. Seven areas are of special interest.

1.   QR Code Payments

QR code payments will effectively take off in Nigeria’s financial market in 2017. In 2016, the market witnessed the entrant of Access Bank’s PayByCapture and MasterCard’s Masterpass with minimal impact. VISA will definitely join the fray early in 2017 while local biggies –Interswitch and Remita – are working very hard to fight for market share. This market will be very interesting. However, interoperability and standardization may be the biggest challenge for fast adoption.

2.    USSD

The success of GTBank X737x USSD powered payment system in 2016 will encourage a lot of innovation on the platform in 2017 and beyond.

USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) is a Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication technology that is used to send text between a mobile phone and an application program in the network.

The NIBSS-powered micro cash (mCash) platform is layered on USSD. Even most QR code payments integrate the USSD option to target the G2 customers. Remita may also layer some of its payment and collection solutions on bank’s USSD platforms.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has also promised to put in place a friendly USSD’s tariff regime in 2017 to encourage financial inclusion project of the federal government.

3.   Contactless

With the increasing consumers’ trust of the payment networks, contactless may likely sneak into the payment market in 2017.

4.   Hyper competition in POS business

With the eventual take off of the deregulated Merchant Service Charge (MSC) in 2017, I foresee a cut-throat competition among the banks in the troubled POS market. With the new regime, the banks are empowered to determine the MSC with their merchants.

Most banks are likely to adopt zero MSC charge to gain market share as deposits still make up the highest percentage of fund sources for the banks.

5.   T+1 may become history

With most payment platforms like USSD and QR code adopting instant payment settlement for the merchants, T+1 will be gradually phased-out from the market in 2017. If your acquiring solutions cannot give instant payments and settlements for your merchants, you may have to start re-working your process now as the market will be hostile to you in 2017. Even cheque truncation will likely embrace instant clearance in 2017.

6.   Flexible regulations

In order to promote financial inclusion, I foresee CBN becoming more flexible in most of its pro-bank regulations in 2017. The regulator having granted no objection to MasterCard and VISA on Person to Person (P2P) payments in the country, the big wall is already falling; I see some of the pro-banking regulation being discarded in 2017.

I foresee CBN toying with an idea of e-money regulation in 2017.

7.   Digital Currency

In response to the popularity of unregulated ponzi scheme like, Mavrodi Mudial Moneybox, MMM, I foresee CBN and Nigeria Deposit Insurance Commission (NDIC) adopting a digital currency regulation in 2017. This is the only way such scheme can be regulated.

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