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Milioni Jikoni na Hashi Gas

Hashi Gas is giving its customers an opportunity to win airtime, cookers, fridges, microwaves, gas cylinders, three months’ supply of gas and grand prize of a cool KES 1 million. To participate in the promotion buy or upgrade your cylinder to Hashi Gas, scratch to reveal…
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Diaspora Remittances Grow 6.4%

Kenyans in the diaspora sent home KES 8.4 billion in the month of November 2012. This is 6.4% increase compared to October 2012 where KES 8 billion were remitted.
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Official Status of SIM card Switch Off Exercise

Statistics from Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) show that as of 4th January 2013, the four local mobile networks had switched off 1,280,840 unregistered SIM cards. Five days after the expiry of the December 31 deadline.
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Investment Terms You Ought To Know In 2013

In addition to that, I believe somewhere in your resolutions one of your goals this year is to grow your money. Here are a few basic investment terms you ought to know in case you chose to invest in the capital markets, and to make that occasional drink with investment professionals less torturous.
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8 Things You Should Know This Morning

1. Telkom Operators Deactivating Idle SIM Cards First Mobile Communications service providers are deliberately delaying the process of disconnecting unregistered SIM cards to give room for users to register According insiders requesting anonymity say the operators have started with a cleanup exercise…
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You Will Be Fined KES 300,000 For Your Unregistered SIM Card

The Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) will fine subscribers KES 300,000 or jail them for three years for using unregistered SIM cards.
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Can Cooperative Societies Tame Corruption Loss of Members’ Funds?

To keep my sanity, I resigned to treating Sacco’s like my local church. In church, you only grow spiritually if you don’t move too close to the decision making organs. That way, you don’t ask your pastor why the church spent ten shillings to buy an item that costs two shillings in the streets. You also maintain your perception of the leadership as custodians of virtue and godliness.
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Budgeting For Your Kids Education

One of our readers recently wrote to us asking what percentage of one’s salary should cater for kids’ school fees.Quick research shows there’s not much data out there about budgeting for your kid’s fees, mainly because school fees aren’t part of monthly expenditure. In Kenya for, instance, a school term…
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January, Noooooooooooooooo!!

Tomorrow is January! Yayy! No? Okay…. Having survived the Mayans dooms day prediction, 25th December and Santa Claus you are now faced with the worst demon yet, Jeanuary. It will definitely come and with it comes a ton of back to school expenses, a fact most parents dread.
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