Mashujaa Day 2019: President Kenyatta accords Eliud Kipchoge top State honor

By Matthews Mutai,

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday awarded world marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge with the Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart medal during Ma...

award , Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart , Eliud Kipchoge , Mashujaa day , President Uhuru Kenyatta

The force behind Uhuru’s calls for removal of interest rate caps

By Kepha Muiruri,

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s rate interest cap repeal call to Parliament has been enforced, financial allied sector stakeholders now reckon. While ...

interest rate caps , KRA , National Treasury , Uhuru kenyatta

OPINION: More capacity building needed in the surgery ecosystem in Africa

By Citizen Reporter,

By Dr. Esther Njoroge … Today, as the world commemorates World Anesthesia Day, we hope deliberations from the 7th All Africa Anesthesia Congress ...

World Anesthesia Day

KRA owes banks Ksh.13B in irrecoverable taxes – report

By Kepha Muiruri,

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) owes commercial banks an estimated Ksh.13.3 billion in irrecoverable taxes mirroring on the sector’s disproportion...

KBA , KRA

HF Group keen on diversifying investments away from real estate

By Kepha Muiruri,

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

INEOS 1:59: A stroke of marketing genius

By Kepha Muiruri,

After the lapse of one hour, 59 minutes 40 seconds and two tenths of a second, Eliud Kipchoge crossed the finishing line to seal the greatest fete in ...

Eliud Kipchoge , INEOS 1:59 , Jim Ratcliffe

The real estate sector fall extends into second half of the year

By Kepha Muiruri,

Kenya’s real estate sector recent deterioration has extended into the second half of the year as the culmination of oversupply and delayed construct...

Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK) , Cytonn Research , Real Estate

Cytonn lines up first publicly funded debt issue

By Kepha Muiruri,

Investor manager Cytonn has sought approval from the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) to register its first Development Real Estate Investment Trust (D...

CMA , Cytonn Investments , nse , REIT

Equity rolls out new look for Kenyan market

By Girlie Kendi,

Equity has announced a new look.  The financial services company will now be known as Equity Group Holdings Limited. As a unified brand, its produ...

Equity

OPINION: Foreigners increasingly impressed with Kenya’s progress

By Citizen Reporter,

By MICHAEL CHERAMBOS A well-known idiom has it that sometimes we can’t see the woods for the trees. Meaning that by focusing on the details, we f...

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Analysis: We sowed sparingly in Malkia, we reaped as much

By Stanley Mativo,

  Analysis, Stanley Mativo Buoyed by last month’s African Games triumph in Morocco, national women’s volleyball team, Malkia Strikers had ...

JAPAN , Malkia Strikers , World cup

Faulu Microfinance to open eight new branches

By Kepha Muiruri,

Faulu Microfinance is set to open eight new branches around the country at an estimated cost of Ksh.113 million. Additionally the tier-one ranked m...

Faulu Microfinance Bank Limited

SportPesa and Betin Kenya halt operations, Betin sends all staff home

By Wangui Ngechu,

Betting firms SportPesa and Betin have halted their operations in Kenya marking what could be the final straw in their long-drawn taxation and regulat...

BetIn , betting , SportPesa

CMA warns Kenyans against ‘forex trader’ Interweb Global Fortune

By Kepha Muiruri,

The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has warned the public against dealing in the InterWeb Global Fortune Limited following the discovery of suspect tr...

Capital Markets Authority (CMA) , CBK , Interweb Global Fortune

Sanlam announces retrenchment plan targeting staff aged above 50

By Kepha Muiruri,

Insurer Sanlam has served its employees with a voluntary early retirement program (VER) hinting at impending job cuts at the consolidating firm. Th...

Where is the illicit cash? Queries persist on the demonetization success

By Kepha Muiruri,

Revelations by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) on the collected sums of the old generation Ksh.1000 notes have served to raise more questions than ans...

CBK , demonetization , new notes

Kericho Law Courts accountant in hot soup over stolen Land Cruisers

By Duncan Mutwiri,

An accountant at the Kericho Law Courts was arrested over the alleged theft of two Land Cruisers. Detectives from the Parklands Police Station in N...

land cruiser

Defiant Museveni laughs off U.S. sanctions on warlord

By Imani Mitchelle,

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has rubbished sanctions from the American Government against General Kale Kayihura. VOA reported that Museveni sa...

Kale Kayihura , Museveni

Kericho Law Courts officer arrested over theft of two vehicles

By Ian Omondi,

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Monday arrested a man in connection with the theft of two vehicles stolen from a N...

DCI , Kericho Law Courts , Nippon Korea Investment , Parklands Police Station

BWIRE: Solar energy is the option to lighting Kenya

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire Players in the solar energy sector are raising challenges in the industry that government needs to relook as a matter of priority. ...