GTBank Virtual MasterCard : How To Create and Fund It

In this post, I want to share with you, how to create and fund GTBank Virtual MasterCard.

The virtual card was launched by GTBank Nigeria recently, as an added comfort for security conscious online shoppers who prefer not to use their regular debit/credit cards when making local and international payments on the internet.

It also serves as a fall back option for customers who have forgotten or lost their card, but need to perform urgent online purchases.

If you've been profiled for GTBank internet banking, you can easily generate your GTB virtual MasterCard from the online banking portal. After creating it, you will be able to see all the details of the card (number, cvv, expiry date, account number) and you will be able to transfer money to the card from other accounts listed on your internet banking dashboard.

How To Create GTBank Virtual MasterCard

==> Go to www.gtbank.com
==> Click on "Login" and sign in with your internet banking user id and password
==> Click on "Cards" on the left sidebar
==> Click on "Virtual Card Request'
==> Click on "New Request" and follow through the steps.

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Once it's successfully created, the details will be listed on the same page. You will be required to enter your token code to view the full details of the card.

How To Transfer Money To GTBank Virtual MasterCard Via Internet Banking

You must fund your GTB Virtual Master Card before you can use it to make online payments.

You can easily do this by making use of the "Own Account Transfer" module via "Account Transfer" but before you can do this, ensure that the virtual card's account number has been listed on your Internet banking dashboard, else you won't be able to fund it.

So, if the GTB virtual debit card's account number is not showing immediately you create it, just chill till it appears. You might have to wait till the next working day though.

NB : Creating the GTBank virtual debit card is not free. Certain amount will be deducted from one of your GTB bank accounts. More so, you can convert the virtual card to a physical card.

Are you using the GTB Virtual card? Feel free to share your experience.

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How to Add Numbered Page Navigation Widget for Blogger

In Blogger, we have the option to set the number of posts we want to display per page by going to the Settings menu > Posts and comments > Show at most ? posts. Once the number of total posts in our blog exceeds this number, we will see "Older Posts" and "Newer Posts" navigation links in our home page and archive pages footer as Blogger doesn't have any built-in function on page numbering. But page numbers instead of older and newer posts links could help our blog visitors to navigate quicker (jump from one page to another page or click on a specific page) and know the total number of posts published. Here's a tutorial on how to add numbered page navigation using Javascript to a Blogger/ blogspot blog. You can select any one of the 7 different styles that I have mentioned below.

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How To Change a Fan Page to Local Business Page on Facebook

Creating a Facebook page for your business is an excellent way to gain exposure for your business and actively engage with clients. As at the time of publishing this post, there are 6 types of Facebook pages and if you need to create a page for your business, the Local business or Place type is highly recommended.

This Facebook Page type enables you to provide information about your business, store hours, location, website, parking information, price range and a general description. It also have supports for maps as well as customer reviews.

If you've created a page for your business but not listed as a Local Business, you can easily change the category to "Local Business/Place". I changed NairaForSMS Facebook Page from "Website" category to "Local Business or Place"

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How To Identify A FakeMemory Card (SD Card)

Memory card sellers are not helping matters as they use their sweet market voice to deceive unsuspecting customers who who are novice when it comes to knowing an original memory card.

Imagine yourself buying a memory card and using it for only one day and it started giving you headache and you start experiencing memory card corrupted.
Imagine buying a 32gb or 64gb SD card and in short time it starts misbehaving. Some memory card will be written 16gb but when you insert it on your phone, you will only see 2gb. That is crazy.
However, you can use card expander to
increase your 2gb SD card to 8gb or even
higher.

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Your Opera Mini Stopped Browsing? Fix It Here

It is no news that most phone and internet users prefer opera mini to every other web browser and this is mainly because of the smart data conserving features. Apart from that, I don't think I like operamini because cm browser has been my best pally in terms of phone web browsers. UC browser is cool for downloading as it also supports pause and resume while downloading.

Anyway this little tutorial is on how to fix opera mini not working issue. This is common on the latest opera mini web browser. I personally find out that after an update to the new version, my browsing stopped especially when I used VPN apps like SyponShield, open VPN, Psiphon, simple server and Tweakware to brows. Last night, while I was redesigning the template of this site for more user friendly and responsive output, 6 persons contacted me the same time begging me to help them as their opera mini is no longer working.

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Latest SwiftKey Update Now Supports All Android Nougat Emoji

Apart from the new emoji pushed in the new version, it also supports diverse emoji. "Long press select emoji to modify their skin tone," the change-log for the update highlights.

Also added is enhanced security (though available in last 2 updates). There are changes to sync related services including email and phone number predictions to improve security and your private information.
To get these features, kindly visit Google playstore and update your SwiftKey app and you are good to go.

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Controversial! When Buhari will vacate president’s seat revealed

The messiah drama
From our recent political history, few events have created more media buzz than when the 73-year old retired Army General, Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as President of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country.
As we gasp in shock and as the Buhari administration gasps for breath, Nigerians wonder what happened to the Chief-Agent-for-Change who toppled the Otuoke Corruption Czar, former President Goodluck Jonathan, 15 months ago in a rare democratic defeat of a ruling party that held power for 16 years.

To see clearly is prophecy. More so, trying to revive a failed state like Nigeria is like hiking in the wilderness. You need to see far into the future. You need survival skills before you start the journey. So far, it is evident that Mr. Buhari was never prepared for the journey. Didn’t see where he was headed.
Many writers and critics offered free help to Mr. Buhari to enable him realize and appreciate that leadership position is not a spectator position. Volumes have been written to intimate Mr Buhari with the complaints, concerns, and expectations of our people.
Complaints which focus on what we think the President is doing wrong, concerns aimed at finding solutions to the problems, and expectations from a government of “change” have sadly been rebuffed and resisted by Mr. Buhari.
Buhari settling like those before him
Mr Buhari has settled for the status quo just to fit in with the crowd of spectators at the National Assembly that run the affairs of Nigeria.
He swims around like a pawn on a chessboard moved around at their whim. Mr. Buhari forgets that harmful association with people like his Chief of Staff Abba Kyari and General Tukur Buratai the Chief of Army Staff, both of whom have been accused of financial improprieties, are like magnet that exert a pull that can distort his moral judgment and throw his moral sense off course!
Arguably, the first 100 Days of a new administration particularly a government of “change” are very crucial. It was the auspicious time for Mr. Buhari to build up momentum. It was when opinion about the new leader would crystallize.
It was very important for Mr. Buhari to get early wins that build personal credibility and political capital rather than dig himself into holes and have to clamber back out. The first 100 Days would have been Mr. Buhari’s best chance to reshape Nigeria according to his own agenda and vision.
Comparing models
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used his first 100 Days in office to lay the foundations of the New Deal. Indeed, his first 100 Days was a model of presidential accomplishment. Between March and June 1933, FDR successfully urged Congress to enact a series of laws creating a host of new federal programs.
He seized the opportunity of the worst economic depression in American history to unleash legislative onslaught. Fifteen million Americans were unemployed. The Gross National Product (GNP) – a measure of a nation’s total economic activity – had fallen for more than half since 1929. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 386.10 on September 3, 1929 fell to 41.22 on July 8, 1932; a drop of nearly 90 per cent.
Wasted days
“The secret to getting ahead,” says Mark Twain, “is getting started.” A reformist presidency begins with the first 100 Days. Just like FDR, Mr Buhari would have taken the advantage of the Jonathan years of economic plundering and political tragedy to rewrite history of his presidency by flooding the National Assembly with progressive bills. Take a look at some examples of lasting revolutionary changes that Mr. Buhari squandered in his first 100 Days in office:
He failed to restructure Nigeria inside out and make it a true federal system. He missed the opportunity to jumpstart the economy with the largest stimulus package in the history of the world. He refused to fire corrupt judges. He failed to reform the judicial system and the criminal justice system.
He lost the chance to slash the bogus salaries and criminal perks of the highest paid legislators in the world and make it competitive with what other legislators in the world earn. He blew away the opportunity to reform education, agriculture, health, power, aviation, and other industrial sectors.
He failed to abolish the Lord Lugard relic known as Nigeria Police Force and replace it with state and local government police.
The failed messiah
Our history shows we’ve been ruled mostly by collection of bandits. Mr. Buhari failed to break protocols and distant himself from the past by surrounding himself with a collection of the same old bandits as members of his inner caucus. He missed the opportunity to do away with the same non performing individuals as ministers. As Buhari’s administration waffles and shuffles through its second year, the slides further and further into recession.
I know some incurable Buharists and political voodoo optimists will be quick to dismiss my view. They will come up with the same old, tired, worn out excuses and reasons. We’re familiar with such tunes.

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