Nairobi Living

1. Nairobi becomes a huge pesa point

"Hook me up with 2G my guy/ so I can impress these chics my guy" Pesa point ad There is this new thing they call Pesa Point. It is a ...

Sunday, 14 May 2006 | 256 hits | Read more

2. Nairobi Communication and PR Firm Wins International Award

Nairobi PR consulting firm, Apex Communications Ltd has once again picked up a  win as the 2010 Golden World Awards (GWA) for Excellence in PR, conducted by the London based International Public Relations Association (IPRA) completed last month. ...

Thursday, 15 July 2010 | 230 hits | Read more

3. Nairobi gets passion (A Dr.Alfred Mutua producshizzle)

So I headed to a Nairobi hotel this past Wednesday to witness yet another magazine being launched in the Kenyan market. I don't know why I never learn. I have been attending these launches for a while now and seeing the products burn to death...

Friday, 30 April 2010 | 472 hits | Read more

4. Nairobi is the new Salsa capital

The first time I went to a discotheque, I went to a little club on Moi Avenue called Lips. This was a jam session that Alvin a neighbour and pal of mine took me and I...

Tuesday, 23 May 2006 | 297 hits | Read more

5. Nairobi Red Carpet Fashion Diva Night

At the end of this there is an image gallery courtesy of Paul Munene. Saturday saw me at the Hilton attending an event  with a very long name; "Nairobi Red Carpet Fashion Diva Night." I was late having come from gate crashing party for a lady...

Tuesday, 20 July 2010 | 307 hits | Read more

6. Nairobi's Kissing cousins (A new urban legend)

May 8 , 2006 Its not only the Americans that have urban legends with their strange one about alligators in the sewer coming to mind. In Kenya we too have urban legends. One of the...

Monday, 08 May 2006 | 239 hits | Read more

7. Nairobi's new bylaws: pedestrian & traffic offences

For your information there are several new bylaws that you must follow when you are living in Nairobi. This new laws will stop those of you that insist on living in a city but have a village mentality. Please note that ignorance of the law is no...

Monday, 14 June 2010 | 215 hits | 4 comments | Read more

8. Nairobi's Umbrella forest

            I once heard this "amazing story" about a...

Friday, 07 April 2006 | 216 hits | Read more

9. Nairobians and the rain

March 5, 2006 It's been raining in Kenya . The truth of the matter is that it's about time. It's been really hot. People ...

Sunday, 05 March 2006 | 180 hits | Read more

10. Najivunia Kudance Salsa

Yes thats Kenya's flag A few months ago I did a piece about Nairobi being the new salsa capital. I mentioned that Kenya was coming up with a delegation to send to the World Salsa...

Wednesday, 06 September 2006 | 257 hits | Read more

11. Nakumatt acquires Woolmatt Supermarket branches

Leading regional retailer Nakumatt Holdings has announced the sealing of a major deal to acquire Woolmatt Supermarkets in Nairobi as a going concern. The deal reached between the two retail operators will now see Nakumatt Holdings taking over the...

Thursday, 11 March 2010 | 255 hits | Read more

12. Nakumatt Lifestyle and the shops therein

Nakumatt Lifestyle is a large mall in Nairobi’s central business district. Please find listed the shops therein and what they do; Aga mobile accessories, Ground floor, mobile accessories and gift shop, M-Pesa Avenue healthcare centre,...

Tuesday, 18 May 2010 | 543 hits | Read more

13. Nana Ciira Accessorises

Nana Ciira In February 2000, Naomi Ciira left MCL Saatchi for Canada Life UK as an AIESEC trainee. She was posted alongside Charmaine Fernandez (Philippines), Edmundt Van Zyl ( South Africa ), Rodolfo Hunninghausen...

Thursday, 20 July 2006 | 321 hits | Read more

14. NBA Star to participate in Sprite Slam Talent search

National Basketball Association (NBA) star Juwan Antonio Howard will be in Kenya next week to participate in the selection of Kenya’s top five talent in the on-going Sprite Slam Basketball tournament.  The basketball legend will join top...

Wednesday, 05 August 2009 | 477 hits | Read more

15. Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela is sitting at home watching TV and drinking a beer when he hears a knock at the door. When he opens it, he is confronted by a little Chinese man, clutching a clip board and yelling, 'You Sign! You sign!' Behind him is an enormous...

Thursday, 27 May 2010 | 209 hits | 2 comments | Read more

16. Never involve kids in your affairs‏

A mother and a father were arguing on who is the most coward between them, after a long argument they decided to ask their two kids who they think was the most coward between them. The first one says," Dad is the most coward one, he`s scared...

Monday, 07 September 2009 | 316 hits | Read more

17. New Jack swing (a shot of the 90's)

  Have been to the Carnivore many times and had many good times. One Friday night in the middle of 1995 stands out…. I think they were still doing the Carnivore Groove then. Memories of drinking large amounts of Pilsner at the Princess Hotel on...

Wednesday, 26 July 2006 | 270 hits | Read more

18. New KQ site: focus seems to have changed at the pride of Africa

In the last few days, Kenya Airways have introduced a new website for all of us to access their services better. The new site roho safi is ...

Wednesday, 01 March 2006 | 293 hits | Read more

19. New mobile project to create self employment for youth

Information Convergence Technologies (ICT) has launched MwananchiSMS, a local based SMS service that will see hundreds of young people gainfully employed by using the mobile phone to disseminate specific and localized information. ICT is an...

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 | 125 hits | Read more

20. New Online Solutions to be Unveiled at Nairobi Conference

A wave of new online travel solutions, especially relating to E-Commerce will be unveiled for the first time at the upcoming E Tourism East Africa Conference in Nairobi on the 2nd and 3rd of September this year. The conference, which is being...

Tuesday, 10 August 2010 | 92 hits | 2 comments | Read more

21. New recruitment service line that could slash company staffing costs by 80 percent

Organizational Development and Consulting Company International Development Partners (IDP) East Africa today launched a new recruitment service line that could reduce organizations recruitment costs by an estimated 80 percent. The new...

Thursday, 25 March 2010 | 314 hits | 1 comment | Read more

22. News in Kenya - A review

"This is torture #newsmadeinkenya #heartstringskenya" Tweeted during the play So here I was again at the Alliance Francaise just a few days since attending the A-ffair event.  The news media had hyped this new play from Heartstrings Kenya called...

Friday, 09 April 2010 | 173 hits | Read more

23. Next Generation Public Notices

Kenyans have been going too far of late. You can be sure that the some people have been forced to go as far as posting public notices on people other than in the obits. This is the next generation public notices surely...

Thursday, 08 October 2009 | 352 hits | 1 comment | Read more

24. Ngugi Wa Thiongo, an Open Myk and reggae night

There I was dashing into the Alliance Francaise (or is it the French Culture centre) and looking around furtively. I was not going to be late or miss this event. Ngugi Wa Thiongo was launching his new book Remembering Africa or something of the...

Thursday, 06 August 2009 | 337 hits | 1 comment | Read more

25. NIC Bank Branches and Service Centres

This is a list of the NIC Bank branches and ATMs around the country Nairobi: NIC House Branch – Masaba Road. NIC House Service Centre – Masaba Road. City Centre Branch -Prudential Building. Wabera Street Harambee Avenue Branch –...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010 | 184 hits | Read more

26. NIC Bank launches entrepreneur account and business club

NIC Bank Group has today launched the NIC Entrepreneur Account, a contemporary business service that provides a customized business solution for individual business needs and a business banking club, the NIC Entrepreneur Club. During the launch,...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010 | 233 hits | Read more

27. Nigeria crowned Copa Coca-Cola Inter-Africa tournament champions

Nigeria lifted the COPA Coca-Cola Inter-Africa Championships trophy when they beat South Africa 4-3 on penalties at the end of the weeklong tournament that ended today in Pretoria, South Africa.   At full time the game ended Nil-Nil forcing the...

Friday, 12 June 2009 | 566 hits | 1 comment | Read more

28. Njenga Karume Book, Summit Malt and gate crashing Google

There was no way I was not going to miss the book launch of "Beyond Expectations - From charcoal to Gold: An Autobiography of Njenga Karume." Njenga Karume had apparently been working on it for the last few years and the serialisation in that paper...

Sunday, 13 December 2009 | 1067 hits | 4 comments | Read more

29. Nokia happy hour: Round 2

So our good friends from Nokia were having the second edition of their Nokia Happy Hour. This is an event to get people excited at the applications or apps in that Ovi Store of theirs. They had invited technologically leaning media savvy fellows...

Thursday, 20 May 2010 | 315 hits | Read more

30. Nokia makes walk and drive navigation free on its smartphones

ESPOO – Nokia has today announced plans to release a new version of Ovi Maps for its smartphones that includes high-end walk and drive navigation at no extra cost, available for download at www.nokia.com/maps. This move has the potential to nearly...

Thursday, 21 January 2010 | 226 hits | Read more

31. Nokia N97 launches in Nairobi

So it’s a Wednesday evening after listening to them TPF3 contestants hemming and hawing about their views on all things under the sun. And the evening promised even more. There was this MTV ignite gig which featured our good friends Mstari Wa...

Friday, 09 October 2009 | 787 hits | 2 comments | Read more

32. Nokia OVI apps happy hour

What a wet evening that was yesterday. It took me two hours from town to Blanco's, a journey that at the worst take twenty minutes. The rain that was falling in bucket loads was just coming and by the time we got to the Hurlingham area we had lost...

Thursday, 25 March 2010 | 366 hits | Read more

33. Nokia Ovi Happy hour 3: The football edition

Friday even was looking up and it started at the Hill and Knowlton (H&W) boardroom remaned the Moses Mabhida Stadium. I thought that we were here to just watch the footie but it was a bit more than this that I got. Checking in Ivory Coast was busy...

Monday, 28 June 2010 | 193 hits | Read more

34. Nokia Unveils New Ovi App Wizard

Nokia today unveiled a new, free on-line application wizard that will help anyone, including publishers, bloggers and consumers, to rapidly mobilize their content or brand on a mobile phone. The world’s largest maker of mobile phones devices said...

Thursday, 29 July 2010 | 119 hits | Read more

35. Nokia unveils Ramadan 2010 with tailored apps

Nokia has announced the launch of a new range of mobile applications and content tailored for Kenyans during the Holy Month of Ramadan set to start next week.   The new range of Ramadan applications 2010, an updated set of mobile applications are...

Monday, 02 August 2010 | 140 hits | Read more

36. Nokia with digital camera

Ok. Here is an amazing of a Nokia digital camera with an inbuilt digital camera. You can access at most stores at flabbergasting price of Kshs4,000. You like?

Saturday, 07 February 2009 | 288 hits | Read more

37. Nokia's Ovi Store offers football apps and games to Kenyan football Fans

How are you connected to this year’s football World Cup? Are you waiting for the news in the press, glued to your TV, or is your mobile playing a big part in feeding your addiction? Football fans in Kenya can enjoy the World Cup no matter where...

Friday, 25 June 2010 | 172 hits | Read more

38. Nokia: resistance is futile

 Two mice in a lab in Helsinki, Finland are sitting and discussing their plans for the evening now that the human techs have clocked out. And thus begins their conversation; Pinky: "Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?" The Brain: "The...

Thursday, 03 June 2010 | 195 hits | Read more

39. Norbert Siteyi throws Wood

The AIESEC Kenya dinner 06 was quite an eye opener. One of the pals that I met here was one Norbert Siteyi . While in Nairobi , he was part of the ubiquitous Global Entrepreneurs. This entity seems to be...

Monday, 03 July 2006 | 253 hits | Read more

40. Numetro Launches Website

  A quick one. Numetro presented their website to the public at The Junction at Dagoretti this Thursday. Their new website has been worked on by 3mice, the interactive company. The ...

Thursday, 26 October 2006 | 298 hits | Read more

41. Nyachae website taken over by pornographers

There were heady days those final days of 2002. Everyone spoke of the election and how the hope was for a better Kenya . And the different campaigns came up with...

Wednesday, 08 March 2006 | 354 hits | Read more