The 2021 two-day Kusi Ideas Festival held in Accra, Ghana, held on 10th – 11th December in Accra, Ghana, provided a vital forum to discuss problems facing Africa and solutions to propel the continent’s development. Various sessions underscored the need for cooperation among African countries to foster growth and improve the lives of their people.

Nation Media Group (NMG) has signed a deal with a United Nations agency to achieve ambitious goals in fight against poverty, inequality, and other ills. In a memorandum of understating with UN Global Compact Network Kenya, the company committed to ethical practices in its operations to help deal with issues that also include climate change. The partnership will also see NMG scale up efforts to accelerate the achievement of sustainable development goals(SDGs) through its television programmes, digital content and newspaper information, and existing initiatives.

As UNICEF marks their 75th anniversary, they have partnered with Nation Media Group on their Wisdom Project, an annual youth media competition, asking children and young people to create stories about children’s rights in Kenya. The project seeks to hear from people with diverse backgrounds with children interviewing older persons in their family or community.

Action in this year’s Nation Classic, Kenya’s long-running golf series, moved to Nakuru County in the Central Rift region, for the third leg of the Nation Media Group sponsored event at the par 73 Nakuru Golf Club course. Coming a month after the second leg of the Nation Classif Golf Series at the century old Mombasa Golf Club, tournament attracted over 200 players including guests drawn from various clubs in the country as well as Nation Media Group staff led by Group Chairman, Dr. Wilfred Kiboro.

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.