Treasury raids Parliament, Judiciary allocations in 2019/2020 budget alignment

By Kepha Muiruri,

The National Treasury has proposed severe cuts to spending by Parliament and the Judiciary in its re-alignment of government spending for the current ...

National Treasury , supplementary budget I 2019/20 , Ukur Yatani

Stakeholders launch Ksh.95B project to boost Africa’s coffee industry

By Agencies,

The Inter African Coffee Organisation (IACO) has joined forces with the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) and the Internatio...

U.S. ignores red flags on Kenya’s debt in fixation to match China’s role

By Kepha Muiruri,

The United States government has rolled up its sleeves in a bid to match up to China’s huge infrastructure undertakings in Kenya. The newly found...

china , debt , Kyle McCarter

Kenya lines up second batch of crude oil for export in February 2020

By Kepha Muiruri,

Kenya is set to export a second batch of 500,000 barrels of crude oil at the end of February 2020 to keep with the country’s ongoing tests of the qu...

Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) , Petroleum Ministry , Tullow , Turkana crude oil

KRA official ‘on the run’ after police discover Ksh.10M uncustomed cigarettes

By Imani Mitchelle,

Police are searching for an officer from the Kenya Revenue Authority linked to uncustomed cigarettes worth Ksh.10 million. According to the Directo...

cigarettes

How to back up phone contacts on Google

By Duncan Mutwiri,

Phone contacts are safer when stored in an external place, separate from the device, so that in case it gets lost, stops working or is replaced, the u...

Google , phone contacts

Why Uhuru’s second SGR train fails basic commuter logic

By Kepha Muiruri,

President Uhuru Kenyatta boarded the inaugural Nairobi-Suswa train on Wednesday, pushing the ignition on what seems to be the start of unfathomable co...

SGR , Suswa , Uhuru kenyatta

Nigeria bans imports, exports across land borders

By Duncan Mutwiri,

Nigeria has closed all its land borders stopping the movement of goods except by sea. The customs agency which is in charge of the country's border...

Nigeria

Kenya to set up additional tax points along Ethiopia border

By Kepha Muiruri,

Kenya is set on establishing additional One Stop Border Posts (OSBPs) along its border with Ethiopia as part of the State measures to rope in addition...

Ethiopia border

Muchiri: Taking a walk on the streets of Doha akin to ‘committing suicide’

By Philip Muchiri,

Philip Muchiri in Doha, Qatar   Doha is an exciting city, a capital of a very small country - Qatar. The city organization is very good, more...

Doha , heat , Khalifa Stadium , Philip Muchiri , Qatar

BWIRE: Refrigerated vans will cure Miraa speed carnage on our roads

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire It's time traders and stakeholders in the miraa sector revisited the manner they are carrying out their business including respecti...

Miraa

CBK retains base lending rate at 9% for the 16th straight month

By Kepha Muiruri,

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has retained the base lending rate at nine percent for the 16th consecutive month on the back of predictable inflation...

benchmark interest rate , CBK

Questions emerge over how Chinese firm won tender for Kenyan oil

By Paul Ombati,

On August 1, 2019, Kenya exported its first 200,000 barrels of crude oil at a price of Ksh.1.2 billion ($12million). The sale has however left unan...

china , kenya , Oil

President Kenyatta makes extensive tour of development projects in South Coast

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday made an extensive tour of several development projects in parts of Kwale County. The President who was accompa...

Gen. Samson Mwathethe , Kwale County , President Uhuru Kenyatta

Francis Mburu now wants Ksh.36 billion from government

By Dzuya Walter,

Nairobi businessman Francis Mburu has filed a fresh suit demanding Ksh.36 billion as compensation over the disputed Ruaraka land which he claims the g...

Francis Mburu , Ruaraka Land

Kenya forgoes Ksh.247 million in first-oil sale discount

By Kepha Muiruri,

ChemChina UK Limited evacuated 240,000 barrels of crude oil from Kenya. The new figure emerging even though government officials initially indicate...

crude oil , Turkana Oil

MWANGI: Low saving rates a factor in Kenya’s economic slowdown

By Citizen Reporter,

By Kevin Mwangi Things are looking bleak for the Kenyan economy and it is expected to continue facing challenges of increased debt servicing burden, ...

Amana Capital , economy , GDP , World Bank

Local man happy as D.T Dobie assures him they’re sorting his car after 11-day wait

By Ian Omondi,

Peter J. Ng’ang’a, the Kenyan man who penned an angry letter to D.T Dobie complaining about his car’s long stay at their garage, is finally plea...

D.T Dobie , Ian Middleton

Angry man pens hilarious letter to D.T Dobie over delay in servicing his car

By Ian Omondi,

A Kenyan man's angry but witty letter to top car dealer D.T Dobie has gone viral for his creative ways of complaining about his car's long stay at the...

D.T Dobie , Ian Middleton , Peter J. Ng’ang’a , VW Passat

Animal activists want slaughter of donkeys banned over low numbers

By Peter Mwangi,

Animal rights activists are calling on the government to ban the slaughter of donkeys in the country claiming the practice was decimating the number o...