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June 28, 2018 Newsroom

GSMA certification, what this means for Kenya

It is the thirteenth day of October 2009.

Corporate

June 27, 2018 Newsroom

Bamburi tests Sh4 billion plant ahead of launch

Bamburi Cement says the contractor is about to complete new Sh4 billion plant that will help it on board two new cement products.

News Sports

June 27, 2018 Newsroom

Predictions and Permutations for Group E and F : Last 16 World Cup qualifiers

The battles to advance to the last 16 of the FIFA World Cup continues today, Wednesday 27th June, after France and Denmark qualified from Group C and Croatia and Argentina qualified from Group D, thanks to a great goal by Messi that is certain to go down as one of the goals of the tournament.

Sports

June 26, 2018 Newsroom

2018 FIFA World Cup: Predictions and Permutations for Group C and D

After a night of high drama, beautiful dreams being achieved by the Iran goalkeeper and VAR coming to the fore again, Russia, Uruguay, Spain and Portugal advanced to the last 16 of the World Cup. Russia will play Spain while Uruguay will face Portugal. Today, Tuesday, 26th June 25, 2018, Group C and D will have protagonists facing off to join them. The winners of Group C face the runners-up of Group D, while runners-up of Group C face the winners of Group D.

Corporate News Technology

June 25, 2018 Newsroom

Fortunes change for a Meru Digi-farmer

Scattered-rainfall patterns caused by the rain shadow of Mt Kenya had led one Geoffery Kimathi, now a mixed farmer in Meru County to plant only maize and beans. He was reluctant to the idea of growing other cash crops for fear of incurring losses owing to this rainfall uncertainty.

News Sports

June 25, 2018 Newsroom

Permutations and predictions of Group A and Group B of the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup

After one and a half weeks of non- stop football, the FIFA World Cup enters its midway stage. All teams have played two group games, and some teams have already been knocked while others are preparing for the knockout stages. From today Monday 25th June 2018 to Thursday 28th, every day two groups will play their final two games in unison. The reason for this to avoid a situation such as the Sporting Disgrace of Gijon we highlighted in an earlier post, whereby two teams played out a mutually beneficial result because they knew the result of an earlier game.

Sports

June 22, 2018 Newsroom

The world cup so far

The world cup continues apace and has now settled into a nice rhythm. At the time of writing, 23 matches of the 64 in total have been played, and some definitive solutions can be made.

Sports Technology

June 21, 2018 Newsroom

The VAR World Cup

The video-assisted referee (VAR), according to a Telegraph article, is meant to assist the referee to make decisions that may have skipped his attention during a match, or correct the wrong ones he makes. The Russia world cup is the first world cup ever to use VAR. There are only four things that the VAR can be brought in to use, goals, penalties, straight red cards and my personal favorite, mistaken identity. (Arsenal fans with long memories will remember a game against Chelsea where the referee, Andre Marriner, sent off Kieran Gibbs instead of Alex Oxlade Chamberlain)