Safaricom Choir and Youth Orchestra Premier Concert ticket winners

Lulu AkakiOctober 11, 2014

Here are winners of the tickets to the Safaricom Choir and Youth Orchestra Premier Concert The screenshots of the winning comments are below: 1. Bonfa...

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Win tickets to the Safaricom Choir and Youth Orchestra Premier Concert

James WamathaiOctober 9, 2014

Safaricom Choir The Safaricom choir, that brought you the popular Niko Na, and the Youth Orchestra, that Safaricom sponsors through the Jazz festival, will ...

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18,000 people in Dadaab to benefit from tablet-based learning

Lulu AkakiOctober 6, 2014

UNHCR, Vodafone Foundation and Safaricom, have announced a partnership to bring transformative mobile-based education programmes to pupils at 13 schools at ...

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Hell is a park in Naivasha

James WamathaiOctober 5, 2014

Hells Gate Team Amunga's Day 9 starts with a trip to the 54 room Lord Egerton Castle in Njoro. The castle was built by Lord Egerton between 1938 and 1954. I...

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How much do you know about the thin sim technology?

Euticus MolaOctober 5, 2014

image via Kenya's corporate giants Safaricom and Equity Bank have been in battle over a piece of technology unknown to most Kenyans. This is all because of ...

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Exploring Baringo

James WamathaiOctober 4, 2014

© Amunga Eshuchi Day 8 of Team Amunga's Capture Kenya starts with an early morning drive to Baringo from Nakuru. Nakuru is moody, all cold, rainy and cloud...

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Of unfit people and steep hills

James WamathaiOctober 3, 2014

Team Amunga's Day 7 starts in Nyahururu with a trip to the garage. Our car needs to lose its vibrating ways if it's going to last the whole trip. After t...

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Museums, vibrating cars and other Central Kenya stories

James WamathaiOctober 2, 2014

Giakanja Town Day 6 of Capture Kenya for Team Amunga starts with a trip to Ndugamano to shoot the musician guy. He lives in Ndugamano but the plan is to sho...

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Getting lost in Laikipia

James WamathaiOctober 1, 2014

Ol Jogi Ranch Day 5 of Capture Kenya finds Team Amunga in Nyeri. We have to make it to the Ol Jogi Ranch in Laikipia to shoot a baby rhino. No one knows whe...

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Photographing warriors playing cricket in the Laikipia plains

James WamathaiSeptember 29, 2014

Team Amunga's Day 3 starts out in Nanyuki Town. We have a photography date with the Maasai Cricket Warriors. They are a bunch of young Maasai men. They ...

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Stories from Northern Kenya

James WamathaiSeptember 28, 2014

Day 2 of Capture Kenya finds Team Amunga in Isiolo Town. Isiolo has an interesting relationship with the sun. Unlike in Nairobi where the sun is shy, first ...

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Out and about in Kenya in search of the unexpected

James WamathaiSeptember 27, 2014

© Amunga Eshuchi Kenya is a beautiful country. Let me repeat that for emphasis and just to confuse my enemies. Kenya is a beautiful country full of many no...

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Kike Tele to stage a play on the stereotypes of women

Lulu AkakiSeptember 23, 2014

Kike Tele, an initiative that looks to collect and tell stories about women is set to stage a play at the Michael Joseph Centre on October 10th. The play ti...

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Essar sells yuMobile for Ksh10.5bn to Safaricom and Airtel

Lulu AkakiSeptember 8, 2014

yuMobile is officially out of the mobile operators scene. This comes afte Kenya’s big three mobile operators finally put pen to paper on a deal, selling y...

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Nigerian Guitarist Kunle Ayo to Jazz Nairobi this Thursday

Euticus MolaSeptember 2, 2014

Jazz lovers are up for a treat as Safaricom brings one of Africa's most celebrated guitarist to town in a build up to next year's Safaricom Jazz festival. K...

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Onfon Media partners with Safaricom to launch Name Tunes on Skiza

Lulu AkakiAugust 27, 2014

Dennis Makori, CEO Onfon Media Onfon Media has partnered with Safaricom to launch a new service called Name Tunes on the Skiza Platform. Name Tunes ...

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Comparison of the new and old MPESA Charges

James WamathaiAugust 20, 2014

Safaricom yesterday announced a revision of transaction charges on MPESA. They specifically reduced the sending fees between registered MPESA users. All oth...

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MPESA charges effective August 2014

James WamathaiAugust 20, 2014

Safaricom has decided to revise downwards the transaction charges for small amounts for their mobile money service M-PESA, a year after raising them. The transa...

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Q&A Monday: Nzioka Waita

James WamathaiAugust 11, 2014

Nzioka Waita is the Corporate Affairs Director at Safaricom, where he oversees, Legal Services, Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Commu...

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Apply for the Safaricom Business Journalists Fellowship

Lulu AkakiAugust 11, 2014

VC Strathmore Prof John Odhiambo, CEO Safaricom Mr Bob Collymore, Dean-SBS Dr George Njenga among others at the launch Strathmore Business School has launch...

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Safaricom to complete Ksh. 10 billion purchase of yuMobile

Lulu AkakiAugust 8, 2014

Safaricom expects its joint acquisition of rival yuMobile to be completed within months at a cost of about $120 million (Ksh. 10 billion), its Chief Executi...

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Tetemesha na Safaricom winners

James WamathaiJuly 29, 2014

Here are the 2014 Tetemesha na Safaricom winners of Ksh. 1,000,000 and Ksh. 100,000 classified according to the dates they won. Tetemesha Na Safaricom Winn...

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Airtel wins case against Safaricom to open up M-Pesa

Lulu AkakiJuly 29, 2014

M-Pesa will no longer be exclusive to the Safaricom network. This comes as the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has ordered Safaricom to open up the pla...

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Developers to win Ksh. 7 million in Safaricom Appwiz Challenge

Lulu AkakiJuly 22, 2014

Safaricom has launched the 2nd edition of the Appwiz Challenge, a developer competition designed to help identify and develop successful early stage mobile ...

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Tetemesha na Safaricom is back

James WamathaiJuly 17, 2014

Safaricom has launched second edition of its consumer promotion in Kenya dubbed Tetemesha na Safaricom. Here is all you need to know about it. 1. Durati...

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Second edition of Safaricom 7s Rugby circuit launched

Lulu AkakiJuly 14, 2014

The Safaricom 7s series is back. Launched for the second time running by Safaricom, the series encompasses the Kenya National Sevens circuit and acts as a p...

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Safaricom and KCB launch financial product for SMEs

Lulu AkakiJuly 13, 2014

KCB Group and Safaricom Business have launched a one-stop-solution platform to meet the needs of Small and Medium Enterprises. The platform dubbed “Biasha...

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Strathmore officially unveils iLab Africa

Lulu AkakiJune 24, 2014

Strathmore University has officially unveiled iLab Africa, a research and incubation facility that supports entrepreneurship programs in apps and software d...

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The Safaricom Security Project explained

James WamathaiJune 20, 2014

Telecommunication company Safaricom was recently awarded a tender to provide advanced communication and surveillance equipment to the National Police Servic...

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5 things that tell the M-Shwari story so far

James WamathaiJune 18, 2014

M-Shwari is a mobile banking service offered through M-PESA and run by the Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) and Safaricom. It was launched in November 2012 a...

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M-Shwari now has a fixed deposit account feature

Lulu AkakiJune 16, 2014

Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) and Safaricom Limited have introduced a fixed deposit feature on the M-Shwari platform dubbed Lock Savings Account. The L...

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Safaricom issues statement on the parliamentary probe of the 14.9B security tender

Lulu AkakiJune 9, 2014

  Bob Collymore The government last month awarded Safaricom Limited a tender to build and deliver a Public Safety Communications and surveillance so...

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Safaricom to pay largest dividends in Kenyan history after posting favourable results

Lulu AkakiMay 13, 2014

Bob Collymore Safaricom, has announced a 38.9 per cent increase in profits buoyed by M-Pesa, SMS and data revenues. The company revealed that there was an i...

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Safaricom launches youth orchestra

Lulu AkakiMay 7, 2014

Bob Collymore at the launch Safaricom once again dipped its toes in the entertainment sector by launching a youth Orchestra dubbed the Safaricom Youth ...

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Kenyan Brands having an awesome conversation on Twitter

James WamathaiApril 1, 2014

We are used to Kenyan brands being stuffy and formal on Twitter. There are exceptions in brands like Durex Kenya, Safaricom and Zetech College have their moment...

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You can now pre-order the Galaxy S5 in Kenya

James WamathaiMarch 25, 2014

You can now pre-order the Galaxy S5 in Kenya from Safaricom, Airtel and Duka1. Safaricom Safaricom are offering the S5 at Ksh. 74,999. It also comes with ...

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Safaricom wants you happy on International Day of Happiness

James WamathaiMarch 20, 2014

Today is International Day of Happiness which is celebrated throughout the world on 20th March. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly on...

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When you Tweet a CEO asking for a job make sure your English is impeccable

James WamathaiMarch 1, 2014

Bob Collymore When you Tweet a CEO asking for a job make sure your English is impeccable. Stephen Karanja, A Kenyan Twitter user, sent a Tweet to Bob Collym...

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Safaricom Jazz Festival 2014 Review

Mwende NgaoFebruary 25, 2014

The traffic on Sunday afternoon 23rd February was backed up all the way to Kenyatta as jazz fans made their way to Ngong Racecourse for the inaugural Safari...

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Win Tickets To The Safaricom Jazz Festival

James WamathaiFebruary 14, 2014

The Safaricom Jazz Festival is on Sunday, 23rd February 2014 at the Ngong Racecourse. The musicians performing include Richard Bona, Rhythm Junks, Aaron Rimbu...

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Safaricom launches Fanikisha na M-Shwari promotion

Lulu AkakiFebruary 7, 2014

In a move to grow the number of customers using M-Shwari, The Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) and Safaricom have announced the Fanikisha na M-Shwari Promotion...

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Safaricom staff support orphaned and vulnerable children

Lulu AkakiFebruary 3, 2014

Zabibu Founder and members of her teaching staff A gala dinner hosted by the Safaricom Technology Division has raised over Ksh. 4 million to go towards the...

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