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A 29-year-old Information Technology consultant is the winner of the grand prize of a brand new Subaru Impreza in the “Win A Ride 2” targeted consumer promotion, featuring Smirnoff, J&B, and Black & White brands. Elizaphan Murage Wanjohi, drove off in a Subaru Impreza valued at Kshs. 3.5 Million. This brought to an end the twelve-week consumer promotion, in...
Twitter Inc policy change to increase the service’s credibility cost its 100 most popular users about 2 per cent of their followers, on average, according to social media data firm Keyhole. Twitter is no longer counting as followers any accounts that have been locked because of suspected fraud, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey posted on Thursday. Locked accounts had already...
By Reuters Granting small loans to help low earners in Africa’s rapidly growing cities build their own homes could help solve a looming housing crisis, experts said on Thursday. About 40 percent of Africa’s one billion people already live in towns and cities and the World Bank predicts the urban population will double over the next 25 years,...
Nairobi, Kenya –Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has today announced a KES 5 million sponsorship towards the 2nd Edition of the Karen Masters Tournament, scheduled to take place at Karen Country Club from 19th to 22nd July 2018. As the official telecommunications sponsor, the amount will cater for event logistics, a fully kitted media centre and wireless connectivity for the secretariat. Part...
Kakamega, Kenya Kenyan Premier League club Vihiga United FC has signed up Ben Robert Ogot, one of the gems from the first season of the Chapa Dimba na Safaricom Tournament. Ogot, commonly known as “Bensuda” signed a two year deal until 31st May 2020. The gifted striker was instrumental in assisting his team reach the Semi-finals during the National...
Africa Innovation Summit top innovators moving ahead after the successful summit of Kigali: Simbarashe is the founder and Managing Director of Oxygen Africa, a Zimbabwean renewable energy development company KIGALI, Rwanda, July 10, 2018/ -- Simbarashe Mhuriro, Founder & CEO of Oxygen Energy Commercial Rooftop Solar Solutions has been shortlisted by CNBC Africa and All Africa Buisness Leaders Awards partners...
Merck Foundation the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany announces the winners of ‘Merck More Than a Mother’ Media Recognition Awards 2017 at an award ceremony held yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya. The awards were initiated with the aim to recognize and appreciate professional journalists and media students who have produced accurate, informative and compelling stories about infertility, infertile women...
More than 141,000 M-PESA Customers and Agents have won daily and weekly instant cash prizes of between KES1,000 and KES 10,000 Safaricom’s (NSE: SCOM) has today announced the first winner of an apartment in Maisha Ni M-PESA Tu Promotion. The lucky winner is James Njagi Waweru, a 32-year-old a metal artisan at the Gikomba Open Air Market. In the ongoing promotion,...
The inaugural Young Scientists Kenya (YSK) National Science and Technology Exhibition has concluded with winners taking home not just happy smiles but coveted prizes courtesy of YSK, the embassy of Ireland and BLAZE by Safaricom. The event whose opening was officiated by his Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta officiated ended Friday evening at the KICC. ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru...
Millions of smallholder farmers in Kenya and Rwanda are set for a major lift after KCB Bank launched a product that will give them access to affordable loans and training. Dubbed MobiGrow, the product rolled out in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation is a mobile-based innovation looking to reach more than two million farmers in the two East African countries...
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