Safaricom PLC (NSE: SCOM) has announced an 11.2% growth in total revenue to KES 388.7 billion ($3 billion) for the financial year ended 31st March 2025, with net income also accelerating …
Safaricom has been penalized Sh250,000 for registering a SIM card using a customer’s national ID without her consent. The ruling, issued by Data Commissioner Immaculate Kassait, found that the telecom …
Safaricom, Kenya’s leading telecommunications company, has petitioned the High Court to halt the enforcement of a Ksh 944 million payment to Popote Innovations Ltd. The dispute centers on allegations that …
Safaricom Customers will now be able to purchase airtime via M-Pesa from as low as 1 shilling in a move that the giant telco hopes to use to get more …
Safaricom Investment Co-operative has received approval from the Ministry of Co-operatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Development to adopt a new name, logo and colors for the society. This approval …
Kenyans who had taken advantage of the reverse calls offered by Safaricom so that they could never use their money to make calls are in for a rude shock after …
Safaricom Investment Co-operative has launched its 158th project in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County in a move to expand its footprints across the country. Dubbed ‘Adelaide Creek’, the 30-acre land project …
The Board of Safaricom Investment Co-operative has appointed Churchill Winstone Ochieng’ as the new Chief Executive Officer. Churchill brings on board over 25 years of experience in leadership, cash flow management, …
Safaricom Investment Co-operative shareholders have approved a KES 142.4 million rebate payout during the 15th Annual General Meeting. The payout comes after the Society reported a KES. 203.4 million in net …
Africa’s leading integrated communications agency, 3 Verse (3VR) has triumphed in a hotly contested global pitch for East African tech giant Safaricom. The agency was appointed as the lead creative …
Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has recorded a strong growth in profitability for the six months to 30th September 2023 with the Kenyan business hitting a double-digit growth in Net income to close …
Jane Omondi sells freshly cooked fish from a stand on a bustling roadside in Utawala, a low- to medium-income neighborhood about 16 kilometers, or 10 miles, east of central Nairobi. …
Kenyans can now access affordable locally assembled smartphones following the launch of the state-of-the-art East Africa Device Assembly Kenya Limited, located in Athi River. The device assembly factory was set …
As Kenyans continue to wait for the affordable smartphones promised by the government, Safaricom has made a major announcement that it is in the final stages of setting up a …
Opera is launching its free data campaign in Ethiopia. Partnering with the Kenyan telecommunications company Safaricom – which recently entered the Ethiopian market – the move follows Opera’s strategy of …
The Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed paint firm Crown Paints Kenya today morning partnered with Safaricom Sacco Ltd, in a strategic move as the paint firm seeks more innovative ways of bolstering …
Safaricom Foundation has hit 20 years since it was officially launched on 14th August 2003. Since its inception, the Foundation has invested over KES 5 billion in more than 4,000 community …
How much do you spend on airtime daily? How much do you use in making calls per month? How about data, how much do you spend on purchasing meaningful bundles …
Safaricom has rolled out the “Gomoka Na Go Monthly” campaign where customers, upon the purchase of a bundle, spin a wheel and win instant prizes including cash in their M-Pesa …
Kenya’s telecommunication giant, Safaricom, has launched the ‘Gomoka na Go Monthly’ promotion that will see customers get to spin a wheel and win various prizes once they purchase any Go …
Safaricom and the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) have launched the HELB-M-Pesa Wallet, a financial product for university students. The HELB Mini App will let beneficiaries access their HELB upkeep, …
The financial sector within and without Kenya keeps on evolving with each passing day. The days of people scrambling for spaces within banking halls are long gone as many financial …
Azimio leader Raila Odinga has called on his supporters to boycott the giant telecommunications company within the region, Safaricom PLC, KCB Group, and The Star Newspaper for “being in bed …
Pochi La Biashara is a product by Safaricom that allows business owners such as food vendors, small kiosk owners, boda-boda operators, and second-hand clothes dealers, among others. to receive and …
Safaricom CEO Mr. Peter Ndegwa has brushed off speculations that he is leaving the giant telecommunications company in April terming such allegations as “noise.” According to Mr. Ndegwa, his contract …
Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) and Nairobi City County have signed a partnership to digitize the county’s services and operations. Under the partnership, Safaricom will develop and support the “My Nairobi App” …
Safaricom customers who will delay paying their Okoa Jahazi will have it automatically deducted from the Bonga Points. The new feature of deducting Bonga Points to repay Okoa Jahazi is …
Word on the street has it that Joshua Oigara, the former CEO of Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB Group) might be headed to Safaricom as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). …
Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has announced that it has signed up 6 banks to its SIM-Swap-Check Anti-fraud solution. The solution provides banks with an API (Application Programming Interface) through which they …
Safaricom’s 6.0% drop in interim profit distribution to the shareholders follows a 10% fall in net profit for the six months that ended last September to 33.5 billion shillings.
Kenya’s telecommunications giant, Safaricom PLC, has announced the appointment of Ms. Karen Kandie and Ms. Ory Okolloh as new members of the Board of Directors effective immediately as it pursues …
Safaricom is set to become a purpose-led technology firm by 2025. This was revealed during the first-ever investor day held on Wednesday. During the forum, executives from Safaricom gave a …
Airtel Kenya has announced that it will introduce 5G mobile broadband services in Nairobi. The telecommunications company will target “high-income” neighborhoods within the city county because “they have the gadgets …
No nation has ever developed by overtaxing its poor population. If you keep on milking an emaciated cow, it will soon die. The Kenya Kwanza Government seems to be under …
“Installation work can be anything from having a sculpture within a particular space as a single object to tell a particular story, or in my type of work, I use …
From October 1, 2022, Kenyans who will borrow 1,000 shillings from Fuliza will enjoy 0 interest rates for the first three days in a new announcement made by the CEOs …
It is estimated that by 2025, a third of the world will be covered by 5G networks. GSMA Roadmaps for 5G spectrum report projects that these networks will benefit some …
Safaricom customers will no longer receive their M-Pesa statements via email starting July 1, 2022, according to the new changes by the giant Telco. According to Safaricom, customers will only …
The 2022 LinkedIn Top Companies list in Kenya is the first annual ranking of the 25 best workplaces for talent to grow their careers.
Have you ever gone to a Kenyan supermarket and the person ahead of you is making their payment for the goods using M-Pesa? How long did it take? Did you …
One is not allowed to send more than 50,000 shillings to an unregistered user. Although, one can do so in bits of 25,000 shillings per transaction.
How many times have you tried to make a call on a certain network but there is just no coverage to facilitate the same? Well, this will soon be the …
Sanda Ojiambo, Safaricom’s (NSE: SCOM) Head of Sustainable Business and Social Impact has been appointed as the Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. …
There were a total of 277 million registered mobile money users in Sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2016. According to a report released by a lobby group GSMA, Sub-Saharan …
Safaricom Limited has opened a fourth regional headquarter in Kisumu in a move that has been termed by the telecommunication company as aimed at enhancing service delivery. According to the …
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