Qatar Airways has unveiled its Qsuite Business Class feature on the Nairobi route
Qatar Airways has launched its Qsuite to Nairobi on board its Airbus A350-1000 featuring 46 seats in Business Class and 281 seats in Economy Class. The launch o...
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SWIFT launches SWIFT Go, a fast & affordable service for low-value cross-border payments
SWIFT, a financial messaging platform, has announced the launch of SWIFT Go. Swift Go is a new service that enables small businesses and consumers to send fast,...
Equity Bank emerges as the Best Regional Bank in East Africa at the 2021 African Banker Awards
Equity Bank has been named the Best Regional Bank in East Africa at the 2021 African Banker Awards. The award was conferred to Equity for its consistent financi...
Bolt secures Ksh. 78 Billion investment to expand its transportation network in Africa & Europe
Bolt, an on-demand mobility platform, has raised Ksh. 78 billion funding to accelerate the expansion of its existing mobility and delivery products across its A...
Why the Huawei Band 6 series is an essential wearable in today’s world
Huawei Mobile recently launched the Huawei Band 6 series in the Kenyan market. The band series is currently retailing at Ksh. 6,999 in all retail stores across ...
How to subscribe to Skiza Tunes on your phone
Since the launch of Skiza Tunes by Safaricom in 2009, subscribers have been entertaining their callers with a song of their choice before they pick up. Safarico...
Emirates introduces flexible payment options for Kenyan travellers
Emirates has introduced additional flexible payment options for Kenyan travellers, offering them a better real-time user experience on the airline’s website and...
Safaricom has increased Artist’s earning from Skiza tunes to 40% in a bid to support the creative industry
Safaricom has announced an increase in Skiza revenue share for artists and content creators by 33%. Following the revenue increase, more than 20,000 artists and...
Mizizi Africa has been named the most affordable housing developer in Kenya
Mizizi Africa Homes has emerged top in the Top score brands Real Estate Awards 2021. The developer has been recognized as the most affordable mid-plan housing c...
CEO Fridays: Old Mutual’s Thobile Tshabalala on how Sisonke is changing lives
Early this year, Old Mutual launched the Sisonke competition aimed at creating awareness and rewarding impactful community initiatives in Africa.
The Sisonke...
KAM has expressed concern over the impact of implementation of the Finance Act 2021 on manufacturing
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has called for the immediate suspension of a number of provisions in the Finance Act 2021. This is in a bid to cush...
Prof. Patricia Mbote has been appointed as the new Director of Law Division at UNEP
Former Chief Justice candidate Prof. Patricia Kameri Mbote has been appointed Director of the Law Division at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
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Oxford University Press has launched the 10th and 4th edition of English & Kiswahili dictionaries
Oxford University Press (OUPEA) has launched the 10th edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) and the 4th edition of Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sani...
Safaricom shareholders approve plan for Ethiopia operations in 2022
Safaricom shareholders recently approved their nod for the setting up and incorporation of Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia which is set to begin operation...
HEVA Fund officially launches ‘Ignite Culture’ a grant facility to support the creative industry
HEVA in partnership with the British Council Kenya has launched Ignite Culture, a new grant facility for the cultural and creative sector in 14 countries in Eas...
The 2021 sub-Sahara Spectrum Management Conference calls for internet accessibility in the region
The sixth edition of the Sub-Sahara Spectrum Management Conference has kicked off, with regulators, experts, and other industry players looking for the African ...
Bolt launches the ‘Early Cash-Out’ feature for cash withdrawals for its drivers
Bolt, an on-demand transport platform, has launched an on-demand cash withdrawal feature dubbed Early Cash-Out. The feature enables drivers to instantly withdra...
Saad Toma has been appointed as the General Manager for IBM Middle East & Africa
IBM has announced the appointment Saad Toma as the General Manager of IBM Middle East and Africa (MEA), effective immeadiately. Mr. Toma succeeds Takreem El-Toh...
Pride Drive Car hire partners with Toyota Kenya to provide corporate transport services
Toyota Kenya has partnered with Pride Drive, a corporate car hire company to cater to the increasing demand of car hire services in the country. Toyota Kenya ha...
LG indoor solutions wins the AHRI performance awards for their high performance technologies
LG Electronics (LG) Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) technologies have won international accolades for their high performance. The models that w...
Nokia C10 smartphone is now available in Kenya to retail at Ksh. 8,900
HMD Global, the manufacturer of Nokia phones has officially launched the Nokia C10 in the Kenyan market, to retail at Ksh. 8,900.
As part of the Nokia C-seri...
6 intimate things your woman wants you to know
Women are complex creatures. We are wired to overthink and over analyze almost everything. Do you ever talk with your partner or look at them and wonder what wa...
Field Intelligence a Nigerian health tech startup announces plans to launch operations in Kenya
Field Intelligence, a health tech startup has announced its expansion into Rivers, Edo, Kaduna, Kano, Enugu, Delta and Kwara States in Nigeria, and Eldoret, Mom...
Hope Consortium to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to countries across the world including Kenya
The Hope Consortium in partnership with other industry players have developed an extensive end-to-end supply chain solutions for vaccines distribution. The new ...
Dr. Laila Macharia & Andrew Musangi have been appointed to the Centum Board
Centum Investment Company has appointed Dr. Laila Macharia as the new Vice-Chairperson of the board and Mr. Andrew Musangi as a member of the board.
Dr. Mach...
Kenya’s Mohammad Adil Abdool will attempt to break the Guinness 12-hours Burpees World Record on 31st July
Mohammad Adil Abdool, an extreme fitness athlete and health coach will on 31st July, 2021 attempt to officially break the Guinness 12-hours Burpees World Record...
Kenya Ni Sisi Campaign sets up 2,000 safe toilets in informal settlements in a bid to improve sanitation
Kenya Ni Sisi Campaign has launched the distribution of more than 2,000 units of innovative safe toilet systems in informal settlements in partnership with SATO...
Prudential insurance company is set to join the Nairobi International Financial Centre
Prudential, an insurance brand listed in London with operations across Asia and Africa has applied to join the newly established Nairobi International Financial...
UK announces Ksh. 20 billion worth of new investments in Kenya
President Uhuru Kenyatta, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab have announced a new Ksh. 19.9 billion (£132 million) inves...
Vodafone Group registers a 45% transaction volume increase in Q1 after M-PESA expansion across Africa
Mobile operator Vodafone Group in a trading update for its Q1 fiscal report has registered a strong growth in Africa. Driven by its financial platform M-PESA, t...
Meet Bernice Kariuki, a Kenyan working as the Arsenal Football Club’s private chef
Bernice Kariuki, like many other Kenyans, has defied the odds to become one of Arsenal Football Club's First Team private Chefs.
Bernice was born and raised ...
Over 200 students have graduated from the Ecobank & AUDA-NEPAD MSME financial training program
Ecobank and the African Union Development Agency New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) have held a virtual graduation ceremony for more than 200...
3Es Experience is helping students learn better while conserving the environment
3Es Experience is an organization that promotes environmental conservation, improve the livelihoods of communities, and empower students in Kenya.
The organi...
Former US President Barack Obama joins NBA Africa as a strategic partner
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced that former United States President Barack Obama has joined NBA Africa as a strategic partner.
As a s...
Cellulant partners with Link Commerce in a bid to improve cross-border trade in Africa
Cellulant, a Pan-African payments company, has partnered with Link Commerce, a B2B eCommerce platform, to avail relevant digital payment options to consumers in...
Unga Group in talks to sell its Ennsvalley Bakery assets to BigCold Kenya
Unga Group, a holding company based in Kenya, has entered into an agreement to sell all its Ennsvalley Bakery assets to BigCold Kenya.
Unga Group is involved...
NCBA launches EasyBuild construction solution for those looking to build a family home
NCBA Bank has launched a product to provide home buyers with a platform for all their construction solutions, dubbed NCBA EasyBuild.
Through NCBA EasyBuild, ...
I&M Bank customers can now access 100% vehicle financing following partnership with Crown Motors
I&M Bank has partnered with Crown Motors in a Vehicle Asset Financing agreement that will see the Bank finance Crown Motors passenger cars and light commerc...
How Spotify’s collaborative playlists are helping people stay connected during the pandemic
Spotify has established that there is an increase in the number of people using the platform to co-create and share audio content using their favorite music.
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Equity Bank steps up efforts to educate customers on secure online banking
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to drive the migration of consumers from the traditional transactions to the digital space. The Kenya Bankers Association’s (KB...
Huawei commits to introduce digital power solutions for the African market
According to international energy agency, around 580 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lacked access to electricity in 2019, three-quarters of the global tot...
Carl Tundo wins the 2021 African Rally Championship title in Tanzania
Kenyan five-time Safari Rally winner Carl Flash Tundo with his navigator Tim Jessop has emerged winner in the the 2021 Rally in Tanzania to take lead of the Afr...
