EPRA closes pumps for 12 fuel stations countrywide over non-compliance

By Citizen Reporter,

The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has closed super petrol and diesel dispensing pumps of 12 fuel stations countrywide. According...

adulterated fuel , EPRA , fuel stations

Kenyans in rural areas face the highest cost of living

By Kepha Muiruri,

As the entire country feels the heat of a rising cost of living, sharper consumer prices have hit out at low-income earners and Kenyans in rural areas...

Cost Of Living , Inflation , Kenya National Bureau of Statics (KNBS)

CA kicks off project to avail telcom services to 17 marginalised counties

By Citizen Reporter,

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has awarded contracts to five companies to roll out telecommunications cellular mobile network infrastructu...

Communications Authority of Kenya , Safaricom

Ksh.500M released for 14 counties in off-grid solar project

By Citizen Reporter,

Residents from 14 counties will now have access to solar and clean cooking products following the release of Ksh. 500million from the Kenya Off-Grid S...

Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project , Keter

2.6 million Kenyans searching for jobs – Report

By Kepha Muiruri,

Approximately 2.6 million Kenyans are actively searching for jobs, representing an 18.2 percent rise in the number of the unemployed over the last 10 ...

KNVBS , unemployment in Kenya , Youth unemployment

Showdown looms as Yatani freezes revenue for 17 counties

By Kepha Muiruri,

Acting Treasury CS Ukur Yatani has set himself for a new showdown with 17 counties after the freeze of equitable share transfers over inaction on the ...

Ukur Yatani

Broke, unemployed and in debt: Kenyan university students in crisis

By Kepha Muiruri,

The country is staring an effective student debt crisis in the short-run as Kenyan university students bear considerable weight of loan repayments. ...

Education CS Amina Mohamed , HELB , Ministry of Education , student debt in Kenya

Auditor General ordered to probe NBK books

By Kepha Muiruri,

The National Assembly has now ordered the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) to audit the books of accounts belonging to the National Bank of Kenya (...

Auditor General , CBK , KCB Group , National Treasury , NBK

ERC releases new fuel prices, Ksh.127 for super petrol in Nairobi

By Citizen Reporter,

The energy regulator has finally released new fuel prices that reflect the 16percent Value Added Tax as ordered by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Ro...

ERC , fuel prices , Henry Rotich

Jambojet to go regional with daily Uganda flights

By Sophie Kinoti,

Low cost carrier Jambojet will from February 15 start daily flights to Uganda, making it the first destination outside Kenya. Jambojet is seeking t...

Aviation , Bombardier , Jambojet , regional expansion , uganda , Willem Hondius

Islamic finance provides Kenyans with cushion against drought

By Reuters,

Hamara Hujale tries to keep an eye on two squirming children and a pot of simmering ugali – a white doughy dish – as she reaches for her buzzing p...

Department for International Development , Drought , Islamic Finance , Overseas Development Institute , pastoralist community , rural kenya , sacco , savings

Power Company Connects Isiolo, Meru Counties

By Citizen,

The company’s corporate communications head Raphael Mworia said that the 132KV power generated will be a boost to the Jubilee manifesto which aimed ...

High Court Halts Oil Exploration Activity In Wajir County

By Citizen,