Mumias Sugar receiver manager Ponangipalli Venkata Ramana Rao. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NMG The High Court on Thursday cancelled a 20-year-lease awarded to Uganda-based Sarrai Group to manage Mumias Sugar Company , delaying plans to revive the ailing miller that was placed under administration. Justice Alfred Mabeya froze the Sarrai Group deal on grounds […]
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Kenya: Nation Media Group posts tenfold increase in full-year net profit
Nation Media Group ( NMG ) has recorded a tenfold increase in net profit to Sh493.1 million in the year ended December 2021 on recovery of business post Covid-19 pandemic. The region’s leading news organisation grew profits from 47.9 million on strong sales and advertising revenues. Total revenues rose 12 percent year on year to […]
Nation resumes dividend payout as full-year net income grows by 331pc
Nation Media Group Chairman Wilfred Kiboro speaks during the release of 2021 financial year results in Nairobi. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NMG Nation Media Group (NMG) has resumed dividend payment following a 331 percent increase in net income to Ksh584.7 million ($5.3 million) in the year ended December 2021 on recovery of business post […]
Ethiopia starts law change process for M-Pesa expansion
A client using mobile money service M-Pesa. Ethiopia’s central bank has drafted a Bill that will allow foreign investors to offer mobile money services, boosting firms such as Safaricom that are seeking to start operations in the country this year. PHOTO | FILE | NMG A consortium led by Safaricom last year secured the first […]
CBK orders banks to ration scarce dollars
CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has directed commercial banks to ration dollars following a shortage of the US currency and the race to protect reserves, hitting manufacturers and general goods importers. A number of currency traders and importers say banks have imposed a daily […]
BOC records 6.5pc increase in profit
Medical and industrial gases manufacturer BOC Kenya grew its net profit 6.5 percent to Sh108.3 million in the year ended December. FILE PHOTO | NMG Medical and industrial gases manufacturer BOC Kenya grew its net profit 6.5 percent to Sh108.3 million in the year ended December, helped by higher sales. The Nairobi Securities Exchange -listed […]
KCB, USAid sign Sh100m funding for livestock farmers
Livestock farmers in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (Asals) will receive training and financing from KCB Foundation following its partnership with USAID. FILE PHOTO | NMG Livestock farmers in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (Asals) will receive training and financing from KCB Foundation following its partnership with the United States Agency for International Development’s Kenya […]
Kenya: Nation Media Group posts tenfold increase in full-year net profit
Nation Media Group ( NMG ) has recorded a tenfold increase in net profit to Sh493.1 million in the year ended December 2021 on recovery of business post Covid-19 pandemic. The region’s leading news organisation grew profits from 47.9 million on strong sales and advertising revenues. Total revenues rose 12 percent year on year to […]
Kenyan corporates mourn Kibaki
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki presents a certificate to Equity Bank Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi during the KRA Taxpayers awards ceremony in Nairobi on October 22, 2012. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Companies and private sector businesses described the Makerere University-trained economist as the ‘father’ of modern Kenya who laid the foundation for macroeconomic stability […]
Airlines increase frequency on Kisumu route ahead of cities fete
Passengers board an airplane at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) during the launch of Jambojet’s direct flight to the Eastern DRC city of Goma on September 10, 2021. PHOTO | LUCY WANJIRU | NMG Local airlines are increasing frequency on the Kisumu route ahead of next month’s Africities summit. The ninth edition of the meeting […]