Author: Kaunga Junior

KDF
Counties
Kaunga Junior

Jobs: KDF recruitment underway

Starting Tuesday, August 28, to September 8th, the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) will recruit roughly 3000 men and women across the country. KDF says a transformative shift is underway informing its approach to recruitment of new men and women into the nation’s security unit. The unit is fighting an avalanche of accusations on massive corruption and favouritism in their recruitment process. The conventional biannual recruitment, which previously separated General Service Officers (Cadets) and Servicemen/women, has evolved into a unified approach, as KDF seeks to departure from the past and foster transparency. Traditionally, Cadet Officers and Servicemen/women underwent distinct recruitment processes, with Cadets subjected to a

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Thika Superhighway
Counties
Kaunga Junior

Chinese contractors leave a mark on county and national roads

Since China Wu Yi (Kenya) Corporation, Sheng Li Construction Company and Sinohydro Company expanded Thika Superhighway nearly two decades ago, the rise of Chinese contactors has been unstoppable clinching nearly all roads, railways and energy tenders across Kenya. Chinese contractors used the Kes27 billion Thika Superhighway project, which began in 2009 to showcase what they can deliver. The highway, totaling 50.4Km of multiple lanes was delivered in record time as part of the Kenya-China mega project undertaking. And with their rise, hitherto big Kenyan contractors such as SS Mehta, Kirinyaga Construction and Put Sarajevo assumed lesser roles in the background.  Kenya, the largest economy in the

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NCBA
In Brief
Kaunga Junior

NCBA’s 90th branch opens in Eastleigh

NCBA Bank Kenya has launched its 90th branch in Eastleigh, Nairobi, as it seeks to tap one of the country’s busiest business hubs. The opening of the Eastleigh branch follows the successful opening of the lender’s Kahawa Sukari branch last month. Deputy Director, Retail Banking at NCBA, Jane Nganga said as Kenya’s third largest bank, serving over 60 million customers across the region, the bank needs physical presence to enhance customer experience and offer advisory. Lenders are reversing the branch closures we saw in the recent past due to shift to mobile banking, leveraging back to brick and mortar in the fight for market share

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MarketsNews
Kaunga Junior

The rise of pay tomorrow for today’s pleasures

Buy now pay later services in Kenya are slowly becoming a new norm as they offer loans to individuals who need products, services and goods but lack the required amount in that given time. Basically, they get you through the purchase of goods and you pay later. They help Kenyans get the “softlife” they so much want to live their best life today by enabling them to buy their dream products now and pay later in easy monthly installments. Partnering with retailers Through the loans, customers can furnish their homes, buy the latest mobile phones , new household appliances, electronics, IT gadgets or even go…

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fertiliser
CountiesNews
Kaunga Junior

Fertilizer subsidy sets Kenya on track for 44 million maize bags

Farmers across Kenya are expected to harvest roughly 44 million bags of maize from the current long rains season. This will be a 37.5 percent increase from the 32 million bags harvested during the same season in 2022. The long rains season usually accounts for 80 percent of the produce and while the year has experienced favourable weather, the government is attributing it to the timely distribution of subsidised fertilisers. “Our target is to produce 61 million bags annually between this season and 2027,” said President William Ruto while announcing the second phase of subsidy fertiliser distribution in readiness for the short rains. In the…

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Onions
MarketsNews
Kaunga Junior

Tiny pricey onions making consumers cry

When we went to get “mayai pasua” from our roadside vendor the other day, something odd hit me. While looking at the freshly prepared bowl of kachumbari in front of us, it was clear that our “mayai pasua” plug had little to no onions in it. We did not raise our concerns immediately, because, who asks “wapi kitunguu?” This is especially tougher when there’s a notable presence of well-dressed people waiting in line for their turn. We wandered away chatting among ourselves wondering how absurd it was only for our more enlightened colleague to interject, citing that there is onion shortage in Kenya. Our colleague,…

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Home Internet
Corporate
Kaunga Junior

Remote work pushed telcos to upgrade home internet

When Covid struck, I was in my last semester of coursework, I had to purchase a Safaricom 4G home internet service for my online classes as well for my project. And I comfortably managed all this from my hoods in “shagz”. For companies such as Safaricom, Airtel and Telkom, the huge shift in remote work and school meant the companies had to evolve to fight for new market share in the home fiber space that has delivered faster and cheaper internet to our doorsteps. The Covid-19 pandemic forced all of us to live, learn, and communicate online. This was making reliable and affordable access to

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Kwale TTC
LifestyleNews
Kaunga Junior

Why Gen Z no longer want to be teachers

Kenya could be heading to a teacher shortage crisis as the young generation demoralized by corruption, low pay and delays in getting absorbed by the Teachers Service Commission, shun the profession. Latest data from Ministry of Education on enrolment at Teachers Training Colleges (TTC’s) across the country shows only 21 percent of the positions offered in the institutions have actually been taken up. Although the total capacities across all the TTC’s stand at 28,070, currently only a mere 6002 have applied to join the training colleges. And the shortage is not just among young people joining the cadres, teachers are looking to leave the profession…

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Coca-Cola
CorporateNews
Kaunga Junior

Fairness on the bottle: Coca-Cola ordered to end discriminating Kenya’s poor

A Kenyan court has found soft drinks multinational Coca-Cola is discriminatory against poor people by failing to include dietary information on glass bottles just as it does on its pricier plastic bottles. The Appellate court found that informing buyers of plastic bottles while leaving poor people, who buy most of its glass bottles with no information about their diets was discriminatory. Consequently, the multinational has been ordered to rectify the anomaly. Coca-Cola has come under a lot of scrutiny over the levels of sugar in their drinks and the information provided to consumers when making purchases, as concerns increase over rising cases of diabetes and…

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