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MPs shoot down taxes on pensions, cooking gas in Finance Bill adoption
By Kepha Muiruri, 1125, June 24, 2020 (EAT)
The 2020 Finance Bill sailed through the floor of the National Assembly as Members of Parliament shot down proposals by Treasury to raise taxes from p...

2020 Finance Bill , National Treasury , taxes
Beryl Okumu to chair the Governing Council of Kenya Water Institute
By Citizen Reporter, 1907, June 22, 2020 (EAT)
Beryl Okumu has been appointed as the chairperson of the Governing Council of Kenya Water Institute. In a Gazette notice dated June 19, 2020, Water...

beryl okumu , Governing Council of Kenya Water Institute
Pensioners spared from tax as Kenyans are handed cheaper Unga
By Kepha Muiruri, 954, June 19, 2020 (EAT)
The National Assembly Finance and National Planning Committee has thrown out proposals that would have seen monthly pension payment attract tax paymen...

2020 Finance Bill , Finance and National Planning Committee , NSSF
‘I have no regrets!’ Moses Kuria accepts removal from National Assembly committee
By Ian Omondi, 1434, June 8, 2020 (EAT)
Gatundu South Member of Parliament Moses Kuria has accepted his recent removal as Vice Chairperson of the Transport, Infrastructure, Public Works and ...

Emmanuel Wangwe , Jubilee Party , Moses Kuria , National Assembly
How Nairobi County will be affected by the takeover by National Gov’t
By Sam Gituku, 2129, February 26, 2020 (EAT)
The transfer of some of Nairobi City County functions may have serious ramifications on the county’s control of resources with the move likely to ta...

Mike Sonko , nairobi county
Gov’t says 17,000 Kenyans have signed up to housing fund salary deductions
By Kepha Muiruri, 2120, December 10, 2019 (EAT)
17,000 Kenyans have begun making voluntary deductions to the State’s affordable housing plan, the State Department of Housing has confirmed. The ...

affordable housing , Housing Principal Secretary Charles Hinga , National Housing Development Fund (NHDF)
UAP, Eaagads issue first profit warnings on expected 2019 earnings
By Kepha Muiruri, 2019, November 14, 2019 (EAT)
Insurer UAP-Old Mutual and coffee grower Eaagads have become the first publicly trading firms to issue profit warning on expected 2019 earnings. In...

Eaagads , nse , profit warnings , UAP
HF Group keen on diversifying investments away from real estate
By Kepha Muiruri, 1932, October 14, 2019 (EAT)
Mortgage financier Housing Finance (HF) has expressed its keenness to move away from the real estate comfort zone highlighting the significant shift i...

Housing Finance , nse , Real Estate
MPs approve request to raise debt ceiling to Ksh.9 trillion
By Chemutai Goin, 1604, October 10, 2019 (EAT)
Members of Parliament on Wednesday approved a request by the National Treasury to raise the public debt ceiling to Ksh.9 trillion from Ksh.6 trillion....

debt
Housing Finance is 2nd African company to set up WhatsApp banking
By Faizal Ahmed, 1517, September 5, 2019 (EAT)
Housing Finance has launched a WhatsApp banking solution that offers customised mobile services to its customers. It becomes the second company in ...

Housing Finance , Mobile Banking , whatsapp
HF Group posts Ksh.97 million half-year loss
By Kepha Muiruri, 1723, August 29, 2019 (EAT)
The Housing Finance (HF) Group has reported a Ksh.97 million loss for the first six months of operations in 2019. The loss which is against a narro...

Housing Finance
Court orders Family Bank to pay former MD Munyiri Ksh.30M
By Sophie Njagi, 1357, June 15, 2019 (EAT)
The Labour Court in Nairobi on Friday ordered Family Bank to pay its former MD Peter Munyiri Ksh.30 million after he succesfully contested an unpaid g...

Family bank , josephine kabura , KTDA Branch Manager Robert Oscar Nyaga , National Youth Service , Peter Munyiri , PriceWateHouseCoopers
Sponsored: The senior citizens’ Independent Living Communities
By Sponsored, 1628, June 10, 2019 (EAT)
By Benard Ojwaya With Kenya’s population estimated at 52 million and projected to rise to 66 million in 2030, senior citizens (60+) will account ...

Benard Ojwaya , Centum Real Estate , independent living communities
100 acres set aside at Tatu City for gov’t housing project
By Benjamin Muriuki, 1857, June 2, 2019 (EAT)
One-hundred acres of land have been set aside at Tatu City for development of housing units under the government's Affordable Housing Programme in the...

Housing , Rendeavour , Tatu City
World Bank grants Kenya another Ksh.75 billion loan
By Faizal Ahmed, 2145, May 29, 2019 (EAT)
The World Bank has approved a Ksh.75 billion loan to Kenya for budgetary support. This is the first time in years the World Bank is putting cash st...

World Bank
Innovation key in provision of affordable housing, says President Kenyatta
By PSCU, 1606, May 29, 2019 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has said the Government is working on innovative ways of delivering affordable houses to Kenyans. The President said the g...

Big 4 agenda , Housing , President Uhuru Kenyatta , UN-Habitat Assembly
Court consolidates 11 cases challenging 1.5% housing levy
By Dzuya Walter, 1326, May 27, 2019 (EAT)
The High Court has consolidated 11 cases challenging a plan by the government to deduct a 1.5% levy from employees salaries for the creation of a hous...

housing levy , Justice Maureen Onyango
Legacy of lunacy haunts old Kenya railway. Will China’s Ksh.364B line be different?
By CNN, 1239, May 21, 2019 (EAT)
In 1903, British colonial administrator Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot made a bold statement: "It is not uncommon for a country to create a rai...

SGR
Court extends orders suspending 1.5% housing levy
By Dzuya Walter, 1126, May 20, 2019 (EAT)
The High Court in Nairobi has extended orders barring the government from implementing the 1.5% housing levy until May 27, 2019. Justice Maureen On...

housing levy
FULL LIST: Uhuru appoints former MPs, Governor to top parastatal jobs
By Benjamin Muriuki, 1616, May 4, 2019 (EAT)
A handful of individuals who lost in the last General Election have been awarded plum parastatal jobs as board directors and board members. In also...

Parastatal appointments