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BRAINFRIEND

About

We are a group of young Nigerians who started off a company in our university days fourteen years ago to see how we can improve the standard of education in the country.

Today the dream of four friends is being pursued by a workforce of over 100 young Nigerians; supported by over 50 channels and resellers across the country

We do business with Governments and MDAs, IOCs, Multinationals, Telcos, Banks, Academic institutions, etc.

We have a mission of improving the quality and management of education at all levels and this we hope to achieve through the products and services we offer.

Introduction

Our educational system currently lacks basic instructional materials, infrastructure, and qualified teachers. Examination fraud, high failure rate, and production of poorly educated citizenry are just some of the direct consequences of this situation.

The role of ICTs in rectifying this problem cannot be over-emphasized as they render useful tools for enhancing education service delivery, particularly through e-learning.

We, therefore, introduce Nigeria’s foremost e-learning and examination preparatory software, BrainFriend which comes in two (3) main versions: Home, Enterprise & TeacherApp.

The Product

No educational product has had so much positive turn-around in self-paced learning like BrainFriend. It indeed has a 100% chance of making you pass that test. BrainFriend is Nigeria's foremost e-learning and examination preparatory tool. It is locally developed and endorsed by the Federal Ministry of Education. It complements classroom learning as well as serves as an examination preparatory tool. The software package is developed to aid all students/pupils ranging from primary through senior secondary and post-secondary schools.It has the Home version, Enterprise version, Special version, and the Teacher App

Benefits

Home version

It provides study resources for students at home and during holidays

It serves as homework and assignment tool for students

Reduces the brunt of marking thereby encourages continuous assessment of students by teachers

Provides veritable information (scores) for analysis

Reduces the cost of text & workbooks, papers

Promotes the effective use of ICT

Enterprise version for schools and ICT centers

Provide a study resource for students & teachers within the school

Provide an assessment tool for teachers/students

Reduce the brunt of marking thereby encouraging continuous assessment

Support multiple concurrent users

Have students’ performance analysis platform

Expand the BrainFriend Content by including their own content

Digitally arrange and store useful content centrally for future retrieval & usage

Reduce cost spent on books and assessments

To track the activities of teachers

Teacher App

This affords the schools & teachers an application that houses:

Teaching resources

Assessment resources

National curriculum

Helps schools to provide their teachers with basic capacity development in education at regular intervals

Provides teachers with a self-paced personal development platform

Serves as an orientation & development course for teachers without education background

General Benefits

Self-paced learning and test preparation

Easy & Effective interactive learning experience

Performance tracking

Enhanced Teachers/ Students ICT skills

Reduced examination malpractices

Improved Class Assessment management at low cost

Improved academic performance/ students confidence

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EASY AND SECURED GLOBAL PAYMENT

The number one fear of e-Commerce globally or online transaction from the South Pole to the North Pole is security. How secure is a payment platform? So many people have been a victim of criminal activities by fraudsters, who have left many people scared of online transfer.

I remember vividly some years back when online payment started in Nigeria, one of my siblings paid for some product she ordered from a platform online. Little did she know that her banking details is left exposed, the night of that transaction, her account was wiped of cash, it was a long night.

In Nigeria, it is indeed quite disheartening that there is still largely shut out from the part of international commerce that will allow local online entrepreneurs and start-ups to earn foreign exchange through the sale of their goods and services. What I can honestly say is that we are being fleeced by many of the international establishments.

At this point, it is great to commend Nigerian companies like Flutterwave for the strides they are making which is geared towards making it possible for people to accept payments for products and services. I mention them because I have used the service for a while and it is pretty easy for anyone to start receiving money through them. This is quite commendable because after all is said and done, e-Commerce starts with the ability to make and receive payments online.

Flutterwave is an online payment solution, that manages funds from one integrated platform that helps you connect globally. Processing billions around the world. Flutterwave payment platform took it upon themselves to connect over 1 billion potential customers with Alipay and also change how money moves in the continent by accepting payments, make payouts and manage business on a single platform making it easy for secure and global payments through their products which are:

1.     Payments platform (RAVE)

2.     Everyday payments (BARTER)

                                                     RAVE

This is a payment solution that is secure and reliable, it is the easiest way to receive and make payments to clients around the world. Provides customers with the best checkout experience when paying using money mobile, USSD, ACH, Cash tokens, Credit and debit. Rave helps business owners and their clients to continuously engage in safe and secure business online.

                                                       BARTER

Barter is a financial application, designed to help you manage one’s money. It helps to accept and make payments easily, ranging from purchase of airtime, cable subscription, logistics and any daily activities that involve payment.

                                                    Challenges

There are some closing questions we would need to ponder on, they are as follows:

·        Is it possible to solve the mystery of not having to re-enter your card details each time you want to make a payment for goods and services?

·        Can we change the Nigerian narrative that is closely linked with online fraud?

·        How secure is our payment platforms?

·        How can we improve service delivery and logistics attached to it?

·        What happens if someone pays for a product and discovers it is defective and won’t serve the purpose of purchase?

·        Will they get a full refund and is it enforceable?

The questions above are pointers to the fact that we need to strengthen information technology institutions or platforms with needed support to run accordingly, in our dear nation because this is what will build the confidence, online security and good name needed to take the sector and the country as a whole to the next level. This should go with a massive enlightenment campaign that is necessary to build confidence and this is where a partnership with digital marketing is vital.