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New NSSF Brand Comes With Pledge To Reform

"We’ve learnt from our mistakes. We ask Kenyans to give us a second chance.” - NSSF Board of Trustees Acting Manager, Tom Odongo
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Stocks We Are Watching Today

The shares we will be closely watching at the NSE today
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MultiChoice Launches GOtv Mobile

A new GOtv service now allows you to watch GOtv channels from your laptop, smartphone, tablet, and handheld TV
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8 Things You Should Know This Morning

8 things you should know this morning
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Applying for a Business Loan? Check This Out

While I handle about 30 inquiries from prospective business borrowers on a monthly basis, I have only managed to lend to 6 customers in the last one year. So, why the high decline rate? In this article, I will examine the broad areas your…
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The Stock Market Today

How the stock market performed today
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NSSF Rebrands Ahead of AGM

Social Security provider, National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has embarked on a re-branding exercise as part of  NSSFs institutional transformation. The re-branding exercise started early this month with a series of internal communication activities to get the more than 1600 NSSF staff to embrace a…
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Budgeting Your Variable Costs

Simply put, your variable costs may include your electricity bills, car maintenance costs, medical expenses, food expenses, just to mention a few. How do you budget for them? These bills may or may not come every month plus there costs fluctuate on a regular basis. How do you…
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Build Your House Like a Jigsaw Puzzle

Prefab housesare structures that can be assembled piece by piece based on pre-set specifications. These structures function like a jig-saw puzzle, all you need to do is put the pieces together.
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No Waiving On Land Rates

The City Council of Nairobi is no longer waiving rates on land for defaulters. Following a long campaign of waivers and extensions they finally decided to put their foot down. Chief Public Relations Officer Mr. Marube said that since the expiry of the August 31st 2012 deadline of operation clampdown,…
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Hire Purchase Phones, What You Need To Know

Safaricom recently unveiled a product dubbed: Smart Choice for a Smart Lifestyle that enables those who yearn to own a smart phone or tablet but can’t afford the price an opportunity to buy and pay for a device of their’s dreams in 12 monthly installments. In addition to…
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Sale of KenolKobil to Swiss Firm on Track

Swiss Puma Energy will complete its due diligence on KenolKobil this month before proceeding with the transaction
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Yu Free Life Insurance Cover; What you need to know

Mobile operator yuMobile has today launched an Insurance scheme that gives a life and disability insurance cover for its pre-pay subscribers. Dubbed yuCover, the product is underwritten by Jubilee Insurance and powered by MicroEnsure.  YuCover rewards yuMobile subscribers with…
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Numbers Say: The Locals Aren't Investing

The last week of August saw many unaudited financial statements printed in the newspapers for the various investment firms, attempting to beat the deadline. If one was to go by the brokerage commissions, it would confirm the reality of what many might have feared. Local investor participation in…
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