Roses are Red, Violets are Blue and we have a Hibiscus for you!
If MTN can almost ruin valentine's day, who are we mere mortals? - xoxoxo love Boo/Bae
Hello dear Innovator,
In case you are new here, welcome to Consonance Weekly. This is your 5-minute weekly round-up of the latest tech and innovation happenings. 7 minutes if you are a slow reader. Here we laugh 😁some, share Innovative opportunities, further hot reads, and most importantly inspire innovation.
How was Valentine’s day for you? Did bae/boo come through? If yes, we are happy for you. If not, At least you got a hibiscus flower (network glitch) from MTN this time, but we have a love letter from our sponsors to you in celebration of the month. Use that one hold body if person no hold you that day.
Someone said “Even bird no fly pass my house this valentine” 😂🤣. Speaking of birds, birds of the same feather, they say flock together 🕊. Join Consonance’s community for innovators you might just find the bird of your very feather waiting for you. lol 😂
We sincerely apologize for any challenges you might have faced while trying to apply previously. We experienced some technical difficulties, but everything is under control. If you applied before please apply again to ensure your entry is accounted for.
It is indeed a confusing time to be a Nigerian. We have a historic election coming up, but first, we have to deal with a cash crisis and fuel scarcity of the current administration which our friend meffy (short for CBN Gov Emefiele) might have contributed to.
Next month, we'll probably have news on the election and what to expect in the next 4 years till then, let’s have a good laugh from tech Twitter.
Telkom just announced that is laying off 15% of its 11,000 workforces. The layoffs just keep coming.
Love is still in the air (wear face mask if you no want) this month of love. Let’s explore different companies’ ways of showing love to their community, users, or customers. We’ll go first.
Consonance Calls 🔊 For Innovators
Consonance launched an application calling for innovators just in time for Valentine’s day, and the first round of applications is still open till the 28th of February. This is one good way to show love if you ask me (what will I say 🙄 before. I work here, but I can’t promise that my boss didn't make me write it)
If you have been actively building a solution, or you are part of a team, then this is for you. Apply here before the application is closed
If you did not give anyone a gift for Valentine’s day, you are not an entirely bad person yet. Here’s your second chance.
Copy and paste the information below 👇🏽to your socials.
Consonance is calling for Innovators
who are actively building.
Do you have an innovative idea? Are you in the process of building it? Then you need a community to support you and help you grow.
A community of like-minded builders would stimulate your growth and fast-track your goals and the success of your idea. Join the community today
Bit.ly/CcInnovators
Thanks In advance
MTN Blacks Out Amidst Valentine’s Day Groove.
The chit-chat of lovers on the phone or the notifications from dispatch riders was a bit too much or so it seemed when the leading African network went dead for a while on Valentine’s day. God abeg 🙄.
Lovers were disconnected, and dispatch riders were displaced as they rode around in circles searching for the signals and trying to connect the beneficiaries of packages. It was a sad love day for some MTN users.
“It was a sh*t show” says a user/victim preferring anonymity. Apparently, he was stuck trying to make a transfer after eight raps of fufu at a local buka in his area. The network would just not connect and he was worried he would be subjected to doing the dishes till the end of the business day, but MTN wasn’t having any of it.
The very same is the story of John who was out with his lover at the Yello bago their favorite restaurant. Of course, an argument broke out after failed transactions upon failed transactions. Indeed breakfast was almost served with yellow table cloth.
How did it end? Do you want to know? Apply to Consonance’s community of innovators and we might just let you know.
Apparently, some users were like “na today?” and were not surprised in the least. It’s innovative to have alternative networks. After all, downtimes could happen to even the best of us.
Our love letter to you today is from Sendchamp and Identitypass
Sendchamp Can’t Keep Calm About its 3 seconds OTP Verification
I’ll have to admit, I’ve not seen an OTP code this fast. This is revolutionary and innovative.
As a matter of fact, people's experiences range from having to click “resend OTP” because they never got one in the first place.
This month of love Sendchamp is saying to you “This does not have to be your experience any more” and to its competitors “Dey play, just dey play”. This is true love and Innovation wrapped up in one strong bond of available services to its users.
Send messages to your customers across WhatsApp, SMS, email, and voice - all with zero coding skills to get started.
Identitypass Reaffirms Anti-Fraudulence Resolution
It is no news that Identitypass is a recommended asset in stopping fraudsters from attacking your platforms.
What better way to show love to your users than when they can sleep better knowing that their platforms are 100% safe from data breaches? In fact, we give Identitypass a 10/10 on an innovative scale this love month. Identitypass really understands this Innovation and love assignment, and we are here for it.
Identitypass offers authentic products to help you verify, gain deeper insights about users/businesses, and prevent fraud in real time. It’s a chain reaction and it is the gift that keeps on giving.
How?
They give their users and their users can ensure that their own users are safe. Hmmmm 🤔 Deep.
I mean no one wants to wake up to discover that they have been a victim of theft while they snoozed 😴. Without Identitypass, you snooze, you lose. Simple as that.
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