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Pay Your Water Bills and Avoid Disconnection

Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NWSC) notify all customers with outstanding bills to make payments immediately. NWSC is carrying out water disconnection for all customers with outstanding water bills. NWSC water bills can be paid in one of the following methods: In person…
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A History of Banking: The NIC Story

How did Banking begin? Not Egypt, that's easy example. Let's go back, back to the assembly of humans into small kin groups way before Egypt.
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Stocks Watch

The shares we will be closely watching in today’s trading at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
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8 Things You Should Know This Morning

1.Rivalry brings down Thika Road fares Bitter rivalry between public transport companies and the completion of the Thika Superhighway has seen fares plunge by as much about a third to the relief of consumers. Fares for commuters between Thika and Nairobi fell from mid-July as a result…
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Closing Bell – 22 August 2012

A summary of share trading activity at the NSE today
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The Less You Drive, the Less You Pay

Gateway Insurance Company has unveiled a new service that lets vehicle owners pay their premiums depending on how much they use their cars. The product, dubbed, Pay As You Drive (PAYD), allows policy holders to choose Drive Plans which act as insurance bundles used to estimate…
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Win Free Subscription to DStv, GOtv or DStv Mobile

Attend MultiChoice Open Day on 25 August 2012 and you might just be a winner of free subscription to DStv, GOtv or Dstv mobile. Winners of free subscription will be  chosen every hour from 10am to 6am, entry is free.
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Why Finance Players are Looking to the Diaspora

With Kenyans abroad remitting US$ 891.1 million (KES 7.49 billion) into the country in 2011 banks and other financial institutions are dashing to tap into this market. Just how practical is all of this hullabaloo?
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Kenyans and Last Minute Deadlines

Service halls tend to be practically empty before due dates thus one gets quick services, but when the due date finally comes, mass jam service halls, queuing for hours, while complaining, as usual, of how slow the services are. Such incidents can easily be avoided if people made their payments early. But, for some reason, they never do.
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Limuru Tea’s Profit Down 93%

Half-year earnings were hurt by lower output of black tea which fell 3 percent to 230,728 kilograms
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Made in the Market: Warren Buffet

This is part of a series of articles sponsored by NIC bank. NIC will be having a rights issue starting 27th August. Read more about their rights issue here. Born on August 30th 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska and the middle-child of three, the only…
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Crop Insurance, Do You Really Need It?

According to a report by the Encyclopedia of Nations, Kenya has more than 3 million farming families. Less than a third of these people have paid for crop cover in spite of the fact that 75% of the country is either arid or semi-arid.
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Incoming Ecobank Group CEO Visits Kenya

Mr. Thierry Tanoh, the incoming Group Chief Executive Officer– Designate of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) is in Kenya for a two day visit. The trip marks his first official visit to the country since his appointment in July 2012 effectively taking over from Mr. Arnold…
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GOtv and the Demand for More Channels

GOtv subscribers have for the longest time complained about GOtv excising channel bouquet, as it is evident in GOtv Kenya facebook page, this coming despite a recent reduction in GOtv monthly subscription rate, . Some subscribers have gone as far as to suggest an increase…
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