Equity to commission 1283 Wings to Fly & Elimu scholars on 26th July
Nairobi County will on Monday 26th July commission a total of 1283 Wings to Fly and Elimu scholarship beneficiaries. The commissioned batch will form the 12th W...
Next weekend all roads lead to Camp Ndunda Falls for the Mudathon & Trail Run 2021
Bucketlist Adventures, a Kenyan outdoor recreation and adventure outfit with seven years of experience in outdoor events will host its inaugural Mudathon on Jul...
Nesta Challenges launches the Afri-Plastics competition for plastic waste management solutions in Africa
Nesta Challenges has launched the Afri-Plastics Challenge that will involve a public competition to reward the best solutions from across sub-Saharan Africa. Th...
Kenyan FIA Rally Stars to take part in the African Rally Championship in Tanzania starting Friday 23rd July
Kenya’s FIA rally stars Hamza Anwar, McRae Kimathi and Jeremy Wahome have expressed confidence ahead of the 3rd round of the African Rally Championship. The cha...
Uber reveals that Doha, Dar es Salaam & Kampala are the top 2021 Kenyan travel destinations
Uber, a cab hailing platform, has revealed the top destinations that Kenyans have visited. This is through a comparative study from 2019 and 2021, showcasing to...
Cloud Productivity Solutions emerges a winner at the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards
Cloud Productivity Solutions (CPS), a Kenyan IT company, was among 9 African companies that were celebrated at this year’s Microsoft Partner Awards event.
Th...
Merck Foundation partners with African First Ladies to launch the More than a Mother Film Awards 2021
Merck Foundation has launched for the Merck Foundation Film Awards More Than a Mother 2021 in partnership with African First Ladies. The awards are open to all ...
KRA to charge 5% digital tax from Zoom Video Communications as from August 1
Zoom Video Communications will from August 1st , 2021 begin to charge Kenyan users a digital tax payable to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
Zoom, which is...
Latest Kenyan Golf News
After the Magical Kenya Open a few months ago, Kenya has been abuzz with more golf news. Most of it is local and great to see. If you’re interested in finding o...
Huawei has announced a partnership with Vocational & Technical Training Institutions in a bid to enhance ICT development
Huawei has entered into a partnership with the State Department for Vocational and Technical Training to collaborate to enhance ICT development within technical...
Butterfly Techies is changing the lives of girls in Samburu through digital skills training
Early this year, Old Mutual launched the Sisonke competition aimed at creating awareness and rewarding impactful community initiatives in Africa.
The Sisonke...
Isuzu East Africa attains milestone of 100,000 locally assembled vehicles
Isuzu East Africa has marked the production of 100,000 vehicles in its assembly plant since commencement of operations in 1977.
Speaking at the production mi...
How Pick-Up Mtaani is thriving in the Kenyan e-commerce delivery space
Pick-Up Mtaani is an e-commerce logistics start-up in Kenya which been working to bring safe, secure and tech-driven delivery services to consumers. With a rise...
Kenya Investment Authority partners with Chinese Council to showcase Shenzhen City to investors
The Kenya Investment Authority and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade recently launched a photography exhibition dubbed Visit, Trade, In...
MPOWER Financing platform secures Ksh.10 billion in Equity to support overseas education
MPOWER Financing, a provider of education loans to well performing students around the world, has announced that it has raised an equity investment of Ksh. 10 b...
Safaricom partners with 2019 Global Teacher Peter Tabichi to donate computers to Keriko Secondary School
The Safaricom Foundation has partnered with former Global Teacher Prize winner, Peter Tabichi, to donate computers and internet connectivity to Keriko Mixed Sec...
Standard Chartered Bank rolls out new 11.9% interest mortgage offering
Standard Chartered has introduced a new mortgage offering that will see clients access mortgages at 11.9% variable rate offer, 1.1% lower than the average marke...
Huawei launches HMS Core 6.0 globally with new improved services features
Huawei has launched the HMS Core 6.0 to app developers in Africa, introducing multiple new open capabilities and updating some existing services and features. C...
Faulu Bank has set aside Ksh. 1 Billion for lending to SME’s in Rift counties
Faulu Microfinance has announced a Ksh. 1 billion lending capacity to farmers, traders, contractors, manufacturers and property developers in Nakuru, Nyandarua ...
BrighterMonday commemorates 15 years of job sourcing in Kenya
BrighterMonday, an online jobs platform, has marked 15 years in Kenya, helping over 40,000 businesses hire the right way and millions of job seekers in the coun...
Hope for African Countries as South Africa plans to start producing Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers BioNTech and Pfizer have announced that they have found a partner in South Africa to produce their jab in Africa for the first ti...
Crown Paints has managed to raise Ksh. 642 Million from a rights issue
Crown Paints, a paint manufacturing company in Kenya, has raised Ksh. 642.7 million from its pre-emptive rights issue. The amount is equivalent to 64.3 million ...
OPPO has launched the 2021 Renovators competition for emerging artists
OPPO has launched the 3rd edition of its Renovators competition, in a bid to give artists and young creators an opportunity to imagine the future with art and t...
Linkham Group acquires majority stake in Resolution Insurance, appoints Peter Nduati as CEO
Linkham Group, an independent consultancy company has confirmed its acquisition of a majority stake in Resolution Insurance Kenya. This comes after the company ...
TSC to hold interviews for teachers as from July 22 to July 28
Over 350,000 Kenyans applied for the 9,000 teaching vacancies announced by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) earlier in June this year.
The shortlisted c...
NMG has achieved 74% uptake of its share buy-back program
Nation Media Group’s (NMG) share buy-back program has achieved 74.23% of the targeted 20,739,652 ordinary shares. This amount represents 10% of the company’s is...
Ory Okolloh has been appointed to the Board of Adecco Group Foundation
Ory Okolloh and Virginia Wilson have been appointed as the Adecco Group Foundation's first external Board members. The announcement was made by Alain Dehaze, th...
AGF has issued Ksh. 500 million loan guarantee to Sidian Bank in a bid to boost SMEs financing
The African Guarantee Fund (AGF) has issued a Loan Portfolio Guarantee to Sidian Bank to boost financing of SMEs in Kenya. The Guarantee line worth half a billi...
Canon had set up professional services at the WRC Safari Rally to support photojournalists
Late last month, Canon EMEA extended its support to the World Rally Championship Safari Rally 2021 by rendering Canon Professional Services (CPS) at the event. ...
Safaricom receives formal approval to begin operations in Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) has stated that the Global Partnership for Ethiopia has incorporated and registered its local company, Safaricom Te...
LG announces plan to open 20 new stores in East Africa expansion plan
LG Electronics has announced plans to expand its footprint in East Africa by opening and refurbishing 20 new shops in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Sudan. This ...
How Uber is empowering women in Kenya through technology
With the digital economy rapidly growing, apps like Uber can enable economic revival while providing earning opportunities to drivers. These opportunities have ...
Kenya Power partners with NYS in Ksh. 225 million digitization exercise
Kenya Power has partnered with the National Youth Service (NYS) to hasten the Facilities Database (FDB) digital platform data clean-up exercise. The clean-up ex...
Stanbic Bank named ‘Best Investment Bank’ in Euromoney 2021 Awards
Stanbic Bank has for the third year in a row been recognized as Kenya’s Best Investment Bank in the EuroMoney Awards for Excellence 2021. This recognition honor...
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum opens nominations for the 2021 AWIEF Awards
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has opened nominations for the 2021 annual AWIEF Awards. Entries and nominations for the 2021 AWI...
Africa’s Business Heroes competition hosts its first pan-African Summit
The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) prize competition, established by the Jack Ma Foundation, has held its first ever pan-African summit, gathering over 1,600 at...
Facebook shares popular emojis in Kenya as the world marks World Emoji Day
As the world marks World Emoji Day on Saturday, 17 July, Facebook has monitored the use of emojis in Facebook posts for between 4th April and 3rd July, 2021.
I...
Gateway Real Estate donates Ksh. 4 million to support women in construction
Real estate developer, Gateway Real Estate Africa (GREA), has handed over a donation of Ksh. 4,328,000 ($40,000) to Buildher Kenya. Buildher, a non-profit opera...
Alex Gitari confirmed as the new KAA Managing Director
Mr. Alex Gitari has been appointed as the new Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) new Managing Director and CEO, effective 8th July, 2021. The announcement was made ...
Kenyan Passport holders banned from 54 countries amid rising COVID-19 concerns
Holders of the Kenyan passport cannot access 54 countries as more nations put up restrictions against new variants of COVID-19.
According to the Henley Passp...
CDC Group announces Ksh. 5 billion finance facility with Ecobank to support businesses in Africa
CDC Group has announced a Ksh. 5.4 billion ($50 million) trade finance facility with Ecobank International (EBISA), the Paris based member of the Ecobank Group,...
Kenya’s AIfluence secures Ksh. 108 million seed funding for expansion across Africa
AIfluence, an AI-powered Kenya-based influencer marketing platform, has closed Ksh. 108 million ($1 million) in seed funding. The investment round was led by Du...