Heshan De Silva is a self-made billionaire in Kenya without a university degree. He is the CEO of DSGVenCap, a firm that invests in various Kenyan entrepreneurs and gets a share of their businesses. Well yesterday the company bought part of Motion Image and Sound Ltd which is a company that offers music production, cinematography/photography,…
Most of us have heard that Easy FM re-branded to Nation FM a few days ago in order to make the radio station more interesting. When this happened, Radio Africa’s top station Classic 105 took shots at Easy FM with this ad in the newspaper. It is public knowledge that Classic 105’s morning show by…
Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko was recently at The Hague accompanying the Deputy President of Kenya William Ruto during his trial. A video footage of Mike Sonko engaged in a heated debate with a hotel receptionist surfaced online and it’s hilarious. This was due to Mike Sonko being asked for his hotel reservation at Hilton and…
Nairobi’s City Stadium is about to get better thanks to Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero. Sh87 million has been allocated to do this task starting from July. Sh65 million will be provided by development partners while sh22 million will come from the county government. New stands, a locker room and a parking lot will be built….
Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero turned 57 this week and he decided to spend his birthday at Reuben slums. This was when the Reuben Educational Center was being handed over to the Nairobi County Government. He also revealed that the county government will spend sh105 million to construct three schools.
African Development Bank carried out research on various cities in Africa and found out that Nairobi is the second fastest growing city in Africa just behind Dar es Salaam. This was based on the population of people whereby the population in Dar es Salaam is expected to grow from 4 million to around 6.2 million…
Nation Media Group launched Nairobi News a few months ago to counter the efforts of Standard Media Group’s very successful Nairobian newspaper. Sadly they didn’t have enough firepower to do so even with the huge marketing budgets. NMG has claimed the newspaper has been experiencing very little sales growth and has had very few people…
Safaricom made a net profit of ksh23 billion making the company the biggest money maker in Kenya. Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore also revealed that the company is very charitable since it is spending sh2 billion to build a school here in Kenya. The board of Safaricom has decided to reward its CEO with something special,…
University students in Kenya took to the streets of Nairobi CBD and other towns for a peaceful demonstration to protest against the proposed fee increment. Education cabinet secretary Prof Jacob Kaimenyi has said the government has no such plans. University of Nairobi student leader Babu Owino urged all university students all over the country to…
The Orange Group will be soon selling its majority stake in its Ugandan business after the company made so many losses in the country. West African telecom company Africell Holding will be buying the Orange Uganda stake that is being sold. Orange Group owned 95% stake in Orange Uganda when it first set foot in…