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Following the end of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, GOtv customers are set to enjoy over 760 matches from the Italian Serie A and Spain’s La Liga from mid-August. The matches will be available on the GOtv Max bouquet. READ: Senegal Football Federation Keeps Faith In Coach Alliou Cisse, Hands Him Contract Extension Having seen the signing of football supremo Cristiano Ronaldo, the Italian Serie A which is regarded as the most tactical national league and one of the best in the world will be a great offering to the subscribers of GOtv. READ: Dennis Oliech’s Sister Elsie Narrates Events Before Her…

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has shown Kenyans raw arrogance when asked to resign for mishandling the relocation of the 11 rhinos which ended up dying. According to Najib Balala, it’s only President Uhuru whom he listens to and not any other Kenyan. The Cabinet Secretary made it clear that he doesn’t listen to any other leader or normal citizen except the President, ignoring the fact that he and the President are employees of the civilians he hold in low esteem. Asked to apologise over the suspension of the KWS officers, Balala insisted that he would not and he owed…

Government spokesman Eric Kiraithe is not relenting in his war on Kenyans whom he believes doesn’t deserve a hearing on the allegations of racism and blatant abuse of employees. Sounding more like a completely ignorant and unaware of the critical issues, Eric Kiraithe’s letter to the editor in today’s Daily Nation points more to inadequacies in him and not in Kenyans. First, the former police spokesman blindly calls DN’s Kipchumba Some student journalists while informing him that “civil servants do not derive their value from momentary public applause or euphoria.” According to Eric Kiraithe, his role is to draw public…

Uber Kenya has announced more incentives for drivers in its network as it battles claims of exploitation of the growing community of partners. According to Uber Kenya’s Zethu Mthethwa, after meeting the driver-partners, Uber is putting in place some short and long term measures aimed at bettering the relationship. While you will still be able to get uberCHAPCHAP and uberX for as low as Ksh 100 and Ksh 150 respectively, incentives for driver partners will go up by close to 10%. This means that driver-partners will see their earnings increased by 10% without increasing the cost to riders. Uber is…

The second Google for Nigeria event happened, and the search giant announced more products and programs aimed at helping more people get online. Google Station: Wi-Fi hotspots across Nigeria Africa might deliver the next biggest growth of the internet as web access is still only at 35 percent for the continent, compared to 48 percent in Asia, 67 in Latin America, 85 in Europe and 95 in North America. Many internet users in Africa don’t have Wi-Fi in their homes, relying instead on the few, unreliable and mostly unsecure public Wi-Fi hotspots to connect, communicate and learn. In partnership with…

Orange Democratic Party (ODM) has come out to claim that all the party aspirants in the race to replace the late Ben Oluoch Okelo as Migori Senator have agreed to support the decision of the party to directly select the candidate. According to the party, six of the eight aspirants who applied for the party’s ticket met with the election board and powerful central committee where they agreed to support the decision of the party to directly select its candidate for the vacant seat. The statement signed by party chairman John Mbadi also revealed that the aspirants agreed to support…

Jamii Telecoms (JTL) owner Joshua Chepkwony has come out strongly to support Safaricom’s dominance in the Kenyan telecoms market, accusing the proponents of break up of the giant telco as being for the punishment of success. Appearing before parliamentary committee investigating how he acquired his 4G license, Joshua Chepkwony and other Jamii Telecoms employees claimed that JTL paid Ksh 2.5 billion for the license and not the Ksh 100,000 being alleged in the industry. Chepkwony proposed that other smaller players be incentivised and national roaming be allowed to enable the small players compete effectively and not break Safaricom. JTL has…

• Telecom Competition Market Study in 2016 is yet to be implemented.  • The report recommends various ways to regulate the telecom sector in mobile money, mobile communications, termination rates, call tariffs, and tower-sharing. There seems to be more than meets the eye in the carefully choreographed narrative cobbled by the mainstream media business news media in Kenya in the last few days portending that Safaricom is losing market share, and its tight fist on the Kenya telecommunications and mobile money market. The story carried in some of the dailies, and on major television stations suggested that Airtel is gaining…

Did Sportpesa bribe Raila Odinga to rig out MP Jakoyo Midiwo who worked day and night to force regulation on betting companies? The immediate former Gem MP, Jakoyo Midiwo worked so hard to bring regulation in the sector which is dominated by Sportpesa (earning and average of Ksh 3billion every month). Jakoyo Midiwo was famously rigged out by a team led by Raila’s elder brother Oburu Odinga who swore never to allow Jakoyo in parliament again as he was messing the earnings of those who have sponsored ODM. In June 2017, one of Sportpesa shareholders called Paul Wanderi Ndung’u decided…

Mary Auma Oliech who is the mother of former football star, Dennis Oliech, has reportedly collapsed in her house and died few minutes ago. According to sources close to the family, Mama Oliech who had various health issues was at her home relaxing when her condition worsened leading to her death. Mama Mary has battled liver, ovarian and lymphatic cancer leading to a long period of hospitalisation in France. She reportedly died around 4PM. Mama Oliech has been a key defender of her son who has fallen from grace in recent times. He was previously one of the most sought after…

Telkom Kenya and Loon, a subsidiary of Alphabet (Google parent company), today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to pilot a new 4G/LTE access network service in Kenya. This will be Loon’s first commercial service in Africa though the service has been launched in Kenya previously seeing the unmanned balloons deployed to the northern part of the country. Telkom Kenya’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Aldo Mareuse, states: “Telkom is focused on bringing innovative products and solutions to the Kenyan market. With this association with Loon, we will be partnering with a pioneer in the use of high altitude balloons…

A report by Communication Authority Of Kenya (CA) on sector statistics shows that there were a total 7.9 million cyber threats detected by the National Computer Incident Response Team (KE-CIRT/CC) between January and March. This denoted a 25.5 percent decrease given the 10.7 million cyber threats detected during September-December 2017 period. During the quarter, the cyber threats detected varied from denial of service (DOS) including botnet and brute-force attacks that led to denial of computer services and illegal access to computer systems; online impersonation via social media accounts and domain names; web application attacks including website defacement; malware including phishing attacks; online…

Safaricom staff and CID officers are deeply involved in the scams where scammers based in Bomet County’s Mulot town defraud subscribers millions. According to sources within the tight knit criminal network, CID officers based in Nairobi and Mulot are complicit in the daily scamming schemes targeting subscribers with millions in their M-Pesa accounts. If your SIM is swapped and your money, both in the bank and Mpesa is withdrawn, there are high chances that you might never get it back. Kahawa Tungu’s Investigative Desk has delved into the matter and met one of the cartels, who has explained how the…

Zimbabwe has launched her own space agency, Zimbabwe National Geo-Spatial and Space Agency (Zingsa). Zimbabwe joins other few African countries with space agencies such as South Africa, Ghana, Egypt, Nigeria and Algeria. The new agency promises the discovery of new minerals and renewable energy sources, wildlife monitoring and investor attraction. The president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, said that the programme is expected to enhance Zimbabwe’s capabilities in global policy discourses on generation, access, use and regulation of the application of space technologies and innovations for sustainable development. “To this end, I challenge all stakeholders in this field to take advantage of our engagement…

Social media giant Facebook has been fined £500,000 (Sh66.8 million) over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal by Britain’s information watchdog, the Information Commission. This is the largest possible penalty that can be handed out by body, which found that Facebook had broken the law by failing to safeguard millions of users’ data. For Cambridge Analytica, the Information Commissioner’s Office announced that it is preparing a criminal prosecution against Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, SCL Elections Ltd. Facebook has admitted the scandal – in which the personal information of 87million people was harvested by a quiz app and sold to a political…