Author: Newsroom
What can BBI taskforce borrow from Aukot’s Punguza Mizigo bill?
The referendum drums beats have been rolled; and the players are gun-blazing setting the stage for a bruising battle to amend the current constitution.
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Is Timiza part of Absa’s plan to deliver African Banking
For Barclays Kenya, Timiza represents close to four million new virtual bank branches, pushing out loans of up to Sh13 Billion since inception. The micro-lending platform helped push Barclays Kenya operating profits up by 13 percent to Sh6.2 billion during half-year 2019, representing the fastest growth in 7years.
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Lack of transparency in a previous deal comes back to haunt Airtel Telkom merger
The planned Airtel Telkom merger has now been put on freeze after anti-corruption sleuths opened a probe into allegations of misappropriation of public funds in the process of the recapitalization and restructuring of the balance sheet of Telkom Kenya Limited, in 2012.
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Kenya could get caught up in the escalating trade war between the US and China
That the US-China trade war has escalated and has now morphed into a ‘cat and mouse game’ is no news.
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Safaricom generates Ksh 75 Billion dividend payout
Shareholders of the largest telco in East Africa have today agreed to distribute amongst themselves, a special dividend of KES 0.62 per share, amounting to Ksh 24.84 billion and a final ordinary dividend of KES 1.25 per share totaling to Ksh 50.08 billion.
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Kenya flags off her first crude oil shipment bound for China
Mombasa, Kenya (26th August) – President Uhuru Kenyatta today flagged of Kenya’s very first Crude Oil shipment of 200,000 barrels valued at Ksh 1.2 Billion. The inaugural shipment bound for China marked Kenya’s entry into a prestigious league of Oil exporting nations.
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When ‘Sudan’ the rhino died; plight of a wildlife ranger
It’s the afternoon of the 19th day of March 2018. Sudan, the last Northern Male White Rhino had just died. Mr. Peter Ekale, a forty-five year-old head ranger at Olpejeta Conservancy sat quietly on a stack of hay.
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An over reliance on rain fed agriculture is hurting farmers in Makueni, but there’s hope.
About twenty-five kilometers off a road intersection at Emali in Makueni County lays kwakakulu village. There, Mr. John Ndisu, a green gram farmer gracefully winnows his bowl to separate the good grain from the chaff.
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