Number of people allowed to attend funerals, weddings raised to 100

By Ian Omondi,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has raised the number of people allowed to attend wedding and funerals from the current 15 to 100. President Kenyatta howe...

coronavirus , Funerals , President Uhuru Kenyatta , weddings

Mitumba traders finally get green light as gov’t issues new importation protocols

By Kepha Muiruri,

The government has cleared the mitumba import blockade through the publishing of new protocols allowing traders to make new orders for the used textil...

KEBS , Ministry of Trade , Mitumba , Mitumba Association of Kenya

Fire razes Gikomba market…again

By Citizen Reporter,

Property of unknown value was destroyed when a fire broke out and razed a section of Nairobi's Gikomba market early Thursday morning. According to ...

Fire , Gikomba market.

Mitumba dealers seek lift to ban on second-hand clothes imports

By Kepha Muiruri,

Mitumba dealers are seeking for a lift to the ban on second-hand clothes imports forced upon by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Mitumba Association of K...

COVID-19 , Mitumba

KEBS bans importation of ‘mitumba’ indefinitely

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has banned the importation of second-hand clothes and shoes-otherwise know as "mitumba"- until further notice. ...

KEBS bans importation of mitumba

Health CS Kagwe orders supermarkets to limit number of shoppers

By Citizen Reporter,

Supermarkets and other shopping areas have been directed to limit number of shoppers so that they remain compliant with social distancing guidelines w...

coronavirus

Passion for fashion: Zia’s journey from mitumba sales girl to dressing celebs

By Flavian Taria,

Starting an online business is never easy, especially an online clothing line as opposed to high street fashion shops. It takes passion determinati...

Zia Collection

Gikomba 101: How to avoid being ripped off by mitumba sellers

By Eric Ndubi,

What I hate more than being swindled by a casually dressed tour operator is being ripped off by a sweet-talking hawker. That said you might have wi...

entrepreneurs , Fashion Watch , gikomba , Gikomba market. , Hawkers , Mutumba , Nairobi CBD , savings , Second-hand clothes , Style and Fashion , textile industry , Toi Market

PSCU called Donald Kipkorir a ‘Slay Queen’ and many blame Itumbi

By Ian Omondi,

The social media handler of the official Presidential Strategic Communications Unit (PSCU) is in the soup after tweeting a personal opinion via the of...

Deputy Governor Polycarp Igathe , DOnald B Kipkorir , Governor Mike Sonko , PSCU Kenya

Small scale traders reap big as Governor Mutua scraps levies

By Disney Maloba,

Machakos Governor, Dr. Alfred Mutua, has scrapped levies on small-scale businesses in a move expected to grow the local economy and improve livelihood...

Row brews as US-based NGO petitions EAC mitumba ban

By Mumbi Warui,

Kenya may have to shelve its plans to ban second hand clothes imports, commonly known has mitumba – this coming after a US-based lobby group filed a...

agoa , EAC , EPZ , Mitumba , mitumba ban

KIRUKU: 2030 is the magic year; shall we have beaten poverty by then?

By Anne Kiruku,

A manufacturing summit planned for May in Rwanda should aim to tell the region’s citizens why, 50 years-plus after independence, the region – and ...

Kisumu hawker ‘loses’ Ksh100 million windfall, gets arrested

By Eric Wenga,

A 40-year-old man’s rags-to-riches dream was abruptly ended on Thursday after a local bank called the police on him for ‘attempted fraud’. Simo...

attempted Fraud , Bank Fraud , Bungoma County news , dollar , Fake dollars , forex exchange , Ignorance , Illiteracy , Kibuye Market , kisumu , Kisumu Bank , Kisumu County News , Kisumu County Police Commander Titus Yoma , Mitumba clothes , Second-hand clothes , Wafula , Wafula news

Ban on mitumba will be progressive, says EALA

By Asili Galgalo,

Members of the East African Legislative Assembly have supported the proposed ban on second hand clothes popular as mitumba. This they say will help...

East African Legislative Assembly , Mitumba , second hand clothes ban , textile industry

VIDEO: ‘Mitumba’ threatened by regional ban on second hand clothes

By Citizen Reporter,

The future of second hand clothing and footwear, commonly known as Mitumba, is bleak. This is after Presidents of the six-member East African Communi...

Mitumba

#TBT: 10 celebrities’ before and after money photos

By Citizen Reporter,

Diamond Platnumz [caption id="attachment_115042" align="alignnone" width="850"] Today, Diamond Platnumz is an outfit, an empire, a musical giant, a...

Diamond Platnumz , Maina Kageni , Nameless , Wahu Kagwi

Property worth millions destroyed in Embu market fire

By Wangui Ngechu,

  Property worth millions of shillings was on Wednesday razed down after a fire gutted down the entire mitumba section of Kianjokoma market in...

burnt down , embu , Fire , inferno , losses , market , millions , property , Traders

#MCM “I slept in the streets”- Tahidi High Actor

By Elainer Mogoa,

If you are a Tahidi High fan, you know today’s MCM as Teacher Kandi, a handsome and flirtatious geography teacher who has a liking for country mus...

#MCM , Actor , Inooro TV , Kandi , Kandi tahidi high , Ken , Ken Wakuraya , mitumba seller , sleot in the streets , Tahidi High , Wa Kuraya , Wakuraya

A Day on the Plus Side: The Plus Size Affair

By Gathii Mwangi,

I attended the plus size affair at the prestige plaza on Saturday August 1, 2015 and as much as I was nervous about being a skinny girl in a curvy wor...

Big & Beautiful , Curves , fashion , kenya fashion , plus-size fashion

Power Breakfast: Mitumba

By Citizen,

Mitumba , Power Breakfast