ERROR: please fill the required fields (name, email) : How I Solved It

Yesterday, I was able to figure out why I've not been getting comments lately on one of my sites powered by WordPress which normally do get lots of comments daily. I never knew readers couldn't comment on the blog posts not until I tried to reply to some comments from the front end.

I discovered that whenever users, not logged in, attempt to post comment, they get the error:

“Error: please fill the required fields (name, email)” 

This comment submission failure error message displays even if you fill in the name and email fields.

I googled the error and read on some blogs that plugins like OpenID, JetPack etc were disabled to fix the error.

As for me, I was able to fix the problem by deactivating Hide My WP plugin.

So, if you are experiencing similar problem and you don't know what might be causing the WordPress comment submission error, one of the activated plugins might be the cause. Do the needful!

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Accounting and PayRoll Software in Nigeria - A Review of MAT Financial Software Features & Uses

When it comes to managing business financials, it is critical for every SME to have a system that not only track the money flowing through their company, but also offers the flexibility required for people to collaborate, thus increasing their individual and collective productiveness.

Poorly managed cash flow can ruin your business, and as your business continues to record increased volume of transactions, you cannot rely solely on notebook or spreadsheet to get real time update of profit or loss position.

To accurately project where your business is headed, ease complexities in payroll and tax reporting, you need a complete financial solution that integrates Accounting, Payroll, Point Of Sale, Customer Relationship Management processes into a simple and flexible platform.

MAT Financials is financial solution software design for small, medium and growing business with features like invoicing, payments, bank reconciliation, budgeting, payroll, inventory, lead management, reporting and more.

With MAT Financials, you can automate your financials reports, control cost and maximise profits.

Why MAT Financials?

• Get all your accounting, payroll and customer management systems in one place.
• Eliminate waste as you don’t have to buy your financial  software separately
• Lets your business run smoothly
• Manage inventory at multiple warehouse, work with multiple price levels, flexible discount and VAT management
• With MAT Financials you can check your figures and see your business position real time
• With the solution, you go paperless; run your payroll functions and manage tax deductions
• Generate standard reports for quick decisions and streamline the reports per time
• Create customised templates
• With the POS you can track your sales, manage walk-in customers and run reports
• Reduce theft and zero out unauthorised users with its enabled role privilege settings
• Integrate with other solutions- Third Party Add-On
• The BI function provides the Managers with a technology-driven process for analysing data and presenting actionable information for more informed business decisions
• With CRM, your manage company’s interaction with current and potential future customers thereby maintaining information throughout the customer life cycle. You can also convert your quotes to invoices.

Features of MAT Financials

Accounting. 

The accounting section covers : 

• Customer details : customers' balance at a glance
• Suppliers details
• Invoicing : multiple invoicing templates
• Instant Cheque Payments and Post-Dated 
• Inventory Management : warehouse management, bill of materials, inventory transfer
• Banking and Reconciliation
• Report : sales, account receivable, account payable, invention valuation report, statement of cash flow, statement of financial position (balance sheet), statement of comprehensive income (Profit or Loss).

Payroll Processing

• Employee Information
• Time And Attendance Sheets
• Salary Structure
• Statutory Deductions : Payee, Pension
• Bonus & Deductions

Point of Sale (POS)

The POS feature is integrated with accounting system

• Sales
• Walk-in Customers
• Cash Register
• Inventory management and Barcode creation and maintenance.

Business Intelligence (BI)

• Sales Report and trend analysis
• Expense Trend
• Prior year comparison
• Analyses your business data in real time and develop strategic business decision.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 

Manages interaction with your current and potential customers, ensuring customer retention and driving sales growth.

• Contact Management
• Lead Management
• Automated conversion of leads to customers.

For more information on how you can setup MAT Financials for SMEs, 

Call 08084708847, 01-4542116. 

Visit the Magnet Group blog for more tips on using an accounting system.

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CAC Public Search Website Lets You Check Online If Company or Business Name Has Been Registered

A public search form has been integrated into CAC Nigeria online portal, to enable anyone search CAC records for registered incorporated trustees, company or business names and those undergoing business registration.

If you want to register your company or business name with CAC Nigeria, you can also use the CAC public name search portal to check if your proposed business name has been registered by someone else or not.

How To Use CAC Public Name Search Form

• Go to : http://ift.tt/2cULrcm
• Enter the name you want to search
• Tick the "I'm not a robot" and solve the captcha if prompted
• Click "Search"

If you enter a registered company name in the CAC online search form, the search result will display the company registration number, the company name, company address and date of incorporation (registration).  

If no registered business name in CAC database contains your search term, the form will return a blank result.

If your proposed business name has not been registered, you can proceed to submit it for reservation at CAC online website.  

Recommended : How To Check If Your Business Name Has Been Approved For Registration

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Gionee F103 Pro : Unboxing Photos and Specs

They say everyone is looking for the phone that makes them complete.

Till they find it, their search is endless.

But, when they find it…..

You can’t deny the joy it brings as they unwrap that special phone :  The Gionee F103 Pro

The Gionee F103 Pro Specifications

• 2,400mAh Battery 
• 5.0 Inches HD IPS incell
• 16GB ROM and 2GB RAM
• 13 MP rear camera and 5MP front camera 
• MT 6735 (Quad Core,1.3GHZ)
• GSM /WCDMA/CDMA/FDD/ TDD Network
• Amigo 3.2(Android 6.0) Bluetooth 4.0
• Dual Sim Dual Standby 

The phone looks so alluring; they can’t wait to see what’s inside,

Yet, so precious, they don’t want to tear it.

After some minutes of sheepish smiles, they summon courage to tear it.

Booyah!!!  And then they find the treasure

Slim, sleek, superb, beautiful, gorgeous, they run out of superlatives
They go on and on to find out what’s more?
First, they find the warranty card.

It’s safe to say the warranty card is just there to fulfill all righteousness. Rarely will anything go wrong with a Gionee F103 Pro phone.  To prove this unrivalled durability, the Gionee F103 Pro gives a warranty of 15 months. Now, that’s confidence.

And then, OH! Here’s the lovely silicon transparent pouch.

 As facts suggest,   it is gonna last for as long as forever.

And then there’s the charger, USB cable and the battery.

Right here is the earpiece that emits only classic sounds.

Ok here’s everything, hmmm, lest I forget, there is an extra screen guard and then, there’s everything.

 Now back to the phone.

They say it’s a slim sleek wonder. No wonder!  

It’s got a screen flash, the Gionee F103 Pro is not a joking sturv, it is really made to Selfie regardless of bad light conditions. Well, here is the 5MP front camera. 

Behold the audio jack

The USB port for charging and data transfer.

13 MP back camera with the Gionee logo; you know what the logo stands for right? Well, if you don’t know, it is “smiles. This phone will make anybody smile. That’s right. 

Here’s the Speaker vent at the bottom to kick start the parry!!

Back to the matter... 

Enough of the merry-go-rounds put your Sim cards and memory card. Let’s put on our phone.  

Awww, such beauty! The Gionee F103 PRO is an embodiment of splendor. 

Simple yet exquisite, glamorous yet affordable, this is definitely the phone to buy. 

Visit www.gionee.com.ng to participate in the Gionee online contest for a chance to win exciting prizes like the Gionee F103 Pro, N20, 000, N10, 000 and a host of other cash prizes and gifts.  

 This is the full package. 

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How To Get Google News RSS Feed

Using RSS feeds of Google News, you can get easier access to updates about news topics that interest you. When you subscribe to a Google News feed using a feed reader, you'll receive a regularly updated summary of relevant news articles along with links to the full articles.

You can use and subscribe to both Google News section feeds and search results feeds.

You can find Google News Feeds by searching for the orange RSS icon at the bottom of any Google News page.

By clicking this RSS icon, you can get a feed for any Google News section.

For instance, while you're on the Business page, clicking the RSS icon at the bottom of the page will give you a feed of business news.

You can also get a feed for searches you do on Google News. First perform a search on Google News, then simply use the RSS icon at the bottom of the search results page to generate the feed.

I like Google News because it’s an easy way to see news articles from newspapers worldwide, grouped by topic and also grouped with similar headlines. As a blogger, you can use it to source for content for your blog.

Do you use Google News?

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9 Ways To Make Money In Nigeria During Sallah Celebration

Sallah celebration (Ileya) is a very very big thing especially in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State where I come from. If you are at Ijebu for Sallah, you get to catch a lot of fun for at least three good days. This is simply because there is this "Ojude Oba" festival which holds on the third day of Eid el kabir (ileya) that attracts alot of  people to Ijebu, for Sallah celebration.

Ijebu Ode and villages nearby are always bubbling with people from all walks of life and from other parts of the country during sallah celebration. This opens up alot of opportunities which you can tap into to make quick cash for yourself whether you are a muslim or not.

So, in this post, I will be sharing with you, some things you can do to make money during Sallah celebration in Nigeria, especially at Ijebu Ode and nearby villages.

Let's roll....

1. eTop Up or Recharge Card Business

You will make alot of money if you sell airtime at strategic places during sallah celebration. I can bet you will even run out of stock. People talk alot during sallah as that is when they will be greeting people up and down.

If you are in Ijebu, you will even get tired of "e kuu odun" calls and alot of your relatives will even be there waiting for you to place an "e kuu odun" call to them. You can just imagine the volume of airtime that peiple will burn on this.......

So, get enough recharge cards to sell and even load up your etop up line so you can vend when you don't have physical cards to sell. You can also use your mobile banking apps or apps like PocketMoni to sell airtime too.

Mind you, it's not compulsory you have a shop. Just place a table and chair at a strategic place plus a board with "Buy recharge cards here" written on it.


2. Mobile Money Services

Banks will likely be closed during sallah celebration and I can bet you that ATM's will disappoint alot of people. There will even be massive crowds at the ATMs.

There are even a lot of Ijebu villages where you won't even find a bank nor ATM. What this simply means, is that if you offer mobile money services especially at those unbanked areas, you will make some cool money during the Sallah celebration.

And mind you, transport fare will be so expensive during Sallah. So, alot of people won't mind paying you if your service fee is not up to what it will cost them to go to a nearby town where they can use ATM.

No guarantee that the ATM will even dispense and most will not even want to go through the stress. Just imagine charging N200 per N2,000 withdrawal. So, be rest assured that this is a very good way to make money even after Sallah.


3. Video Games Business

Hmnn, those Lagos boys love playing video games when they come to the village to celebrate Sallah o. Years back, I made alot of money from this at my village.

I "cornered" the play Station my dad bought for us and placed it at a shop at my grandpa house which is at the center of the village. My dear, it was fun and it makes lot of sense.

So, if you have video games, this is the right time for you to make good money with it. Just make sure you have a standby gen.


4.  Viewing Center

When people come to Ijebu for Sallah, they always want to hang out to catch fun.

So, if you have a viewing center where they can relax to watch football, movies, wrestling etc, be rest assured that you will make cool money. If sallah falls on a weekend, I can bet your viewing center will not even be able to withstand the crowd that will bombard your centre, to watch Arsenal, Chelsea or whatever.


5. Accommodation

If you run an hotel business, this is a good time to ensure your hotel looks cool with a lot of happenings there. You should ensure you have a standby DJ ditching out correct jamz so alot of people can come around to catch fun and probably lodge there.  If you have a big house in the village with empty rooms, you can also cash on this.....

6. Parties/ Shows

If you can organize parties, you can make some cool money too.

Just make sure you place banners all around town to inform people about the show. You will make money from tickets, from drinks etc

7. Transport Business

If you have means to convey people from one place to another, you will also make lots of money. Even if you hike your fare, there will always be enough people that will be willing to pay you. You will even laugh it off by saying, it is sallah money you are collecting ooo....lol

8. Beauty/ Barbing Business

People want to look good during Sallah. So, if you are good at barbing, can make lovely hairstyles for ladies, do facials, fix nails etc, you will also make cool money.


9. Sales of Cloth, Shoes etc

No need explaining this. I can bet you already know what's up. Smiles**


These are some of the few opportunities you can explore.

If you know other ways one can make money during sallah, please share via comments.

PLEASE, help me SHARE this with your loved ones.

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