Asa from Nigeria is the latest addition to Spotify’s EQUAL music programme
Award-winning Nigerian singer, Asa, is the latest Spotify EQUAL Africa Music Programme ambassador of the month. The announcement follows the release of her most...
Hisense confirmed as the appliance partner for MasterChef South Africa Season 4
Hisense, a provider of cooking and home appliances, has announced it will be an appliance partner for the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa. Hisense will...
Panasonic launches its i-PRO brand in Europe, Middle East & Africa region
Panasonic has announced launch of i-PRO Europe Middle East and Africa (i-PRO EMEA) operations in the region at Intersec 2022. Intersec is one of the leading sec...
Morocco reopens its airspace after 2 months hiatus, begins construction of vaccine plant
Morocco has officially reopened its airspace in a bid to revive its tourism sector, two months after it cancelled commercial flights over rising COVID-19 fears....
KAM raises concerns over KRA charges on livestock delivered to Nairobi County
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) through its CEO Phyllis Wakiaga has registered concerns on what it terms as unfair imposition of fees on businesses...
Over 7,000 HP illicit items seized in Nairobi, Dar & Mwanza
Local authorities in East Africa have successfully seized over 7,000 illicit items in partnership with HP across Kenya’s Nairobi area and Tanzania’s Dar Es Sala...
Latest Knight Frank report shows improvement in Nairobi residential sale prices
Knight Frank's second half 2021 Kenya Market Update report has shown that prime residential sale prices in Nairobi marginally improved by 1.2% over the past 6 m...
Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund provides Ksh. 4 billion financing to the Kesses solar project in Eldoret
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) has provided a Ksh. 4 billion (USD 35 million) loan over a 15 year term to the 40MW Kesses solar generation proje...
Justice Alfred Mabeya calls for expeditious determination of Mumias Sugar case
Justice Alfred Mabeya, presiding Judge at the Milimani Commercial Court has stated that the case by five farmers challenging the leasing of Mumias Sugar Company...
Jiji acquires Ghanaian-based classifieds platform Tonaton
Jiji Nigeria, an online marketplace, has announced its full acquisition of Ghanaian-based classifieds company Tonaton. The company is the enterprise behind the ...
Cassava Technologies appoints Tesh Durvasula as CEO for Africa Data Centres
Cassava Technologies, a Pan-African technology company, has announced the appointment of Tesh Durvasula as the new Chief Executive Officer of Africa Data Centre...
Mdundo music streaming service registers 3.7 million new users in Q4 2021
Mdundo, a Pan-African music streaming service, has announced a 22% growth in its user base in the last quarter of 2021. The platform recorded 20 million users a...
Aleph Hospitality enters Ugandan market; to operate Masheda Palms & A’lure Hotel
Aleph Hospitality has entered the Ugandan market with the signing of a management contract to operate two boutique hotels. These are Masheda Palms in Buyala and...
KCB sponsors the 2021/2022 Safari Golf Tour series to a tune of Ksh. 4 million
KCB Bank has injected a Ksh. 4 million sponsorship towards the 2021/2022 Safari Golf Tour series. The funding was channeled through the Kenya Open Golf Limited ...
Amitruck secures Ksh. 454 million in seed funding for expansion in Uganda & Tanzania
Amitruck, a Kenyan tech enabled logistics platform, has raised Ksh. 454.6 million (USD 4 million) in seed funding. This brings the total funds raised to date to...
11 new international series that you can watch on Showmax
Showmax offers viewers a wide range of entertainment content from movies, to series and TV shows that you can stream on demand on the platform.
This February...
22 golf terms that you need to know
Golf is one sport which I have always had an interest in learning how to play. But, I have always been held back by the notion that it is an expensive sport to ...
M-PESA Foundation Academy accredited as English Language Proficiency Test Centre for UCAS exams
The M-PESA Foundation Academy is now a fully registered centre for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The Academy has also been accredit...
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is calling out for applications for the 2022 ASME innovation showcase
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has opened applications for the 2022 ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW). The global hardware accelerator is op...
Lami acquires Bluewave Insurance agency as it seeks to promote access to affordable policies across Africa
Lami, a Kenyan based insurance technology company, has acquired Bluewave Insurance Agency, an insurtech startup. With this acquisition, Lami aims to democratize...
Artcaffé opens its largest branch at the Britam Tower in Upperhill
The Artcaffé Group recently celebrated the opening of its largest branch located at the Britam Tower in Upper Hill which was officially opened to the public in ...
Carrefour conducts clean up exercise on River Ruaka to mark this year’s World Wetlands Day
As part of marking this year's World Wetlands Day on 2nd February, Carrefour Kenya in partnership with Friends of Karura Forest Community Association conducted ...
Saudi Arabia invests more than 727 billion in future technologies
Saudi Arabia has announced more than Ksh. 727 billion (USD 6.4 billion) in investments in future technologies and entrepreneurship. The investments aim to furth...
Mark Wambui, Oprah Oyugi & Voline Ogutu among 21 shortlisted candidates for the Netflix African Folktales, Re-imagined competition
Netflix and UNESCO have announced the 20 shortlisted candidates who will go forward in the short film competition titled African Folktales, Reimagined. Interest...
Binance Charity commits to donate Ksh. 18 million to AFCON 2021 stadium crush victims
Binance Charity, a blockchain-enabled transparent donation platform, is donating Ksh. 18 million (USD 160,000) to offer relief to the families of 8 victims who ...
Moove secures Ksh. 1.14 Billion financing from NBK Capital Partners in a bid to scale growth in Africa
NBK Capital Partners Mezzanine Fund II recently announced that it closed a Ksh. 1.14 billion (USD 10 million) financing facility with Uber’s vehicle supply part...
5 reasons why you should buy the smart LG dishwasher
Typically, no one wants dirty dishes in their kitchen sink. It is even more tiring to come home to dirty dishes staring at you.
However, it's the 21st centur...
Canon launches the Canon R3 full frame mirrorless camera
Canon CCNA recently unveiled the professional-grade Canon EOS R3, a new development for its full-frame mirrorless cameras. Building on the success of the EOS R ...
Afya Rekod secures Ksh. 227 million seed round to expand its operations across Africa
Afya Rekod, a health data startup, has announced it has raised Ksh. 227 million (USD 2 million) in a seed funding round led by Mac Venture Capital, a US based v...
Kenya floats international tender for the BRT project through leasing
Kenya has floated an international tender to original bus manufacturers, motor vehicle dealers, leasing companies, financial institutions and interested firms f...
Saudi Arabia invests Ksh. 125 Billion in the Ignite program in a bid to uplift digital content creation & media production
Saudi Arabia recently launched Ignite, a new program for digital content creation and production, in a series of new investments and support for next generation...
Tatu City has partnered with Access Afya to launch an affordable community health clinic
Tatu City has announced a partnership with Access Afya, a healthcare enterprise that delivers high quality and localised healthcare for low-income markets. Unde...
Equity Bank revamps its *247# USSD service to allow customers access loans among other features
Equity Bank has revamped its USSD service (*247#) in a bid to offer customers a seamless banking experience. The newly updated USSD offers a unified service off...
UAP Old Mutual partners with Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital in a bid to increase uptake of cervical cancer vaccine
UAP Old Mutual Old Group has announced a partnership with Gertrude’s Children Hospital in a bid to roll out a joint campaign aimed at increasing the uptake of ...
Wincate Wawira has emerged as the winner of a brand new Isuzu NMR Truck in the Jaza Raha na Shell Shinda Nyumba National Consumer promotion
21-year-old Wincate Wawira Mwaniki a business woman, and a mother of one from Muthatari centre in Embu has emerged as the winner of the brand-new Isuzu NMR Truc...
Spotify hits 180 million subscribers in its Q4 2021 performance results
Spotify has released its Q4 2021 earnings report. The report shows that premium subscribers on the platform grew to 180 million, a 16% increase compared to a si...
Boehringer Ingelheim launches a virtual educational program on heart failure to empower healthcare professionals
Boehringer Ingelheim, a pharmaceutical company, has launched a virtual scientific program titled MEDEX (META Heart Failure Discussion for Experts). The program ...
MediaCom launches the SpotLift tool to measure the impact of TV advertising
WPP Scangroup’s MediaCom has launched SpotLift, a TV attribution tool, to measure the impact of TV advertising in line with outcomes. The launch is in response ...
Ndovu, a tech startup, launches in Kenya in a bid to provide users with easy access to global financial markets
Ndovu, a micro investment tech startup, has officially launched in Kenya. The startup was founded by Radhika Bhachu, Ro Nyangeri, and Gianpaolo De Biase. Availa...
Bamburi Cement moves to green energy by signing solar power purchase agreement with MOMNAI Energy
Bamburi Cement has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with MOMNAI Energy Limited, an Independent Power Producer. The two companies will set up two Solar Pl...
Mutuma Mathiu takes the Editor-in-Chief position in the latest NMG editorial team changes
The management of the Nation Media Group (NMG) has made some changes in the company's editorial department. According to the company's leadership, the changes a...
KQ appoints Global GSA to oversee all its commercial activities in Italy
Kenya Airways (KQ) has appointed Global GSA as its passenger general sales agent for the Italian market effective 1st February, 2022. According to the agreement...