Nation Media Group (NMG) has kicked off a debut stock buyback plan in East and Central Africa by setting out to buy back 10 percent (20.7 million shares) of its issued and paid-up share capital in less than three months. The company, which is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), becomes the first corporate to implement the share buyback option after the provision was incorporated in the Companies Act, 2015.

Nation Media Group (NMG) has scooped six awards in the 2021 Global Media Awards organised by the International News Media Association (INMA). In a ceremony broadcast on INMA.org, YouTube, and Facebook Live, NMG was listed among 58 first-place winners across 20 categories on surfacing innovation and best practices in news brands, optimising use of media platforms, subscriptions, business development, and data and insights.

Nation.Africa, the flagship news and content website of Nation Media Group, has won two awards at the prestigious International Forum (iF) Design Award 2021, also referred to in popular culture as “the Oscars of Design”.

Six Nation Media Group journalists bagged top awards at the Annual Journalism Excellence Awards gala, held by the Media Council of Kenya, with Beatrice Kangai, an online sub-editor, emerged Journalist of the Year