Get Free Life Cover with Yu
Yu Mobile will this morning, 12 September 2012, launch “yuCover” a free life and disability insurance cover for yuMobile pre-pay subscribers. As reported in the Business Daily, Yu Mobile subscribers who spend KES 100 will qualify for a cover of KES 10,000, those spending KES 250…
8 Things You Should Know This Morning
1. Airtel Partners with Posta to increase Revenue Airtel Kenya has entered into a partnership with Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK), which will see it utilise 465 outlets to sell airtime and offer its mobile money transfer service across the country. Finally. 2. iPhone 5 Launch…
CFC Rights Issue Gets Underway Today
CFC shareholders will get 4 new shares for every 9 that they already hold in a bid
The Stock Market Today
A look at how the stock market faired today
EAC Pushes for Affordable Healthcare
The East African Community (EAC) is hosting a seminar in Kigali to discuss the state of medical care in the region. The conference aims to help member states adopt successful healthcare models such as Rwanda’s Mutuelle de Sante in a bid to improve medical services…
Can Your Fixed Expenses Push You To Financial Ruin?
Eating out in expensive restaurants, hefty bar tabs and a weakness for expensive stuff could make it tough for you to save for the future. Odds are against this when compared to fixed expenses. They are the real danger. Fixed expenses refer to any kind of…
Planning Ahead: Health Insurance
With the Ministry of Medical Services frowning upon low-cost health insurance schemes, it pays to know what else is out there. Last week, we covered Academic Insurance. This week, we will discuss Health Insurance and see what some of the country’s top service providers have to…
British Rebrands to Britam in Line With Growth Strategy
The new Britam logo gives British American the needed platform to accelerate its regional expansion plans according to Group MD Benson Wairegi
Know Your Rights as a Consumer
Every business needs clients. Consumers are probably the most important people to our economy. yet for the most important people they seem to be ignored a lot. What are your rights as a consumer?
What Exactly is Goodwill?
So you wanted to put up a business stall in town the other day, and when you finally got it, the existing guy asked you to pay up ‘goodwill’, and when the figure was quoted your jaws dropped. There could be possibly two reasons why your jaws dropped.
KES 884 Billion Worth of Government Debts; Guess Who's Paying
Just three months into the fiscal year 2012/13 (with a KES 1.4 trillion budget) the government has so far borrowed close to KES 30 billion. This is according Central Bank of Kenya’s report for the first week of September. Consequently, this extends the government’s total debt (both foreign and domestic) to…
3 Kenyan Companies among Ten Most Innovative Companies in Africa
While no African company was featured in Forbes recently published list of World’s Most Innovative Companies, Safaricom, Nation Media Group and East Africa Breweries made it among the Ten Most Innovative Companies in Africa. Safaricom…
33 Trillion Reasons To Legalise the Drug Business
A couple of weeks ago, one of the writers here gave a strong financial case for the legalisation of prostitution. Forget morals, prostitution is big business he said, and big business needs to be taxed. Well, since we are on big business, let's talk about drugs.
Stocks We Are Watching Today
See a Market summary of yesterday’s trading here Here are the shares we will be closely watching in today’s trading at the Nairobi Securities Exchange: Nation Media Group – Yesterday the media group’s share price gained one shilling to close at their new 3 year high of KES 206;…
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