28 May 2015

St Georges School Girls Suspended over Lesbianism


Ten Form 4 students of St. George’s Girls’ Secondary School which is a Public Provincial Girls’ Boarding School in Nairobi Province have been suspected of engaging in lesbianism. Five of them have been expelled from school. The school was started in 1986 as a Mixed Day School but later converted to a Girls’ Boarding School when the boys were relocated to Nairobi Milimani Secondary School.

27 May 2015

How to Top-up Equity Prepaid Card from an ATM

  • Go to the nearest Equity bank ATM
  • Insert your Visa card and enter your pin
  • Select Visa Direct
  • Select account type
  • Enter your 15 digit prepaid card serial number 
  • Enter amount you wish to top up
  • You will get a receipt from the machine

How to Top-up Equity Prepaid Card from an Equity Agent

  • Go to any nearest Equity Agent
  • Preaent your Prepaid card and the amount you want to load
  • The agent will top up for you

How to Top-up Equity Prepaid Card from Eazzy 247

Log on to Eazzy 247
Enter your pin
Select Bill Payment
Select your account
Enter business number 763763
Enter your 15 digit prepaid card serial number as your account number
Submit your request

How to Top-up Equity Prepaid Card from Mpesa

Go to Mpesa Menu
Select Lipa na Mpesa
Select pay bill
Enter business number 763763
Enter your 15 digit prepaid card number as your account number
Enter amount
Enter Mpesa pin
Submit your request

How to Top-up Equity Prepaid Card from Equitel

Use you equity line to go to Sim tool Kit
Select Money then choose Send or Pay
Selct From Account then choose Pay bill
Enter business number 763763 ten enter your 15 digit prepaid card serial number
Enter amount and confirm
Enter your Equitel 4 pin digit
Submit

How to go to M-shwari on your mobile phone

  • Go to Safaricom on your phone
  • Choose Mpesa
  • Choose M-Shwari

How to open Safaricom M-shwari account

The steps are:

Update your Menu by going to the Safaricom menu on the phone.


  • Select "M-PESA".
  • Go to "My account".
  • Select "Update Menu"
  • Enter M-PESA PIN
  • Wait to receive the updated M-PESA menu
  • To Opt - in to M-Shwari Go to M-PESA Menu.
  • Select M-Shwari.
  • A message will appear requesting you to read and accept the Terms & Conditions.
  • SMS will be sent informing you that you are now activated on the M-Shwari service

25 May 2015

Sambaza Airtime Safaricom

This is an airtime sharing service that enables both PrePay and PostPay subscribers to share airtime.
You can send any amount between Ksh5 and Ksh10,000.

How to Sambaza

a) SMS

  • Create a new SMS message and enter (#) immediately after the airtime value you want to share, followed by the mobile number you want to top-up, e.g., 20#0722123456.
  • Send to 140.
  • Wait for confirmation by SMS.
  • Both you and the person receiving the airtime will receive an SMS notification upon successful top-up. 

b) USSD

  • Key in *140*Airtime value you would like to share* mobile number you want to top-up#, e.g. *140*20*0722123456#.
  • Press the CALL/OK button.
  • Both you and the person receiving the airtime will receive an SMS notification upon successful top-up. 
c) On your phone
  • Go to safaricom on your phone
  • Choose Sambaza
  • Enter amount to sambaza and press ok
  • Enter mobile phone to sambaza to
  • Enter your Pin
  • Press Ok

Sambaza value limits and validity periods

 (Please note that the person sending airtime must remain with a minimum of Ksh20 airtime on their phone).
Denomination/Amount
Lower Limit (Ksh) Upper Limit (Ksh) Validity Period (Days)
5 9 30 days
10 19 45 days
20 999 90 days
1,000 10000 120 days

Internet Sambaza Safaricom

Safaricom customers can transfer as much as 20MB worth of data bundles and as little as 5MB in a day, maximum allowed per session is set at 10 MB data bundles.
This can be done using three methods:
  • Dial *544# then select Sambaza Internet
  • Send an SMS with the amount of internet data bundles in MBs *Mobile number to 450
  • Or you can visit www.safaricom.com/bundles
Now you can stay in touch with your friends and family with Internet Sambaza!
  • Accessible to both Individual Postpay and prepay subscribers
  • Customer can Sambaza Internet to a maximum of 20MB data bundles in a day, maximum allowed per session is set at 10 MB data bundles.
  • Customer can request for Sambaza Internet requests up to 2 (two) times in a day.
  • One can Sambaza Internet as minimum as 5 MBs data bundles
  • A minimum of 5MB data bundle balance is required to remain on account before sambaza Internet request is successful.
  • Sambaza Internet can be done via USSD, SMS or Online option.
Source: http://www.safaricom.co.ke/personal/internet/internet-data-plans/internet-sambaza

Okoa Jahazi Safaricom

|Safaricom customers can now request for airtime advance of 10/-, 20/-, 50/-, 100/-, 250/-, 500/- and 1000/- . This can used to browse the internet or makelocal and  international calls.

How to use Okoa Jahazi

  1. Okoa, dial *131#, press the call button and select your preferred Okoa Jahazi airtime amount.
  2. To check your Okoa Jahazi airtime balance, dial *144*4# and press the call button.
 More info at http://www.safaricom.co.ke/personal/value-added-services/messaging/okoa-jahazi

Kopa Credo Airtel

 This is a credit advance service for Prepaid customers.
Airtel Subscribers have options of Ksh 5, 20, 50, 100, 250 and 500 credit airtime.
Customers will be required to repay the credit loan within three days. The airtime can be used to make calls to other networks.
A subscribermust have been on the Airtel network for at least three months.

 

To get Airtel credit advance:

Dial*221# or
Dial *100# go to Smart Services, select Kopa Credo.