Barclay Kenya scoops three banking awards
Barclays Bank of Kenya won three awards in the 2013 edition of The Banking Awards of Kenya. The Bank emerged top in the corporate banking sector and was also awarded the runners up position in the...
View ArticleHotelier calls for revision of value added Tax
A key investor in the hospitality industry wants the government to increase categories of hotel items exempt from value added tax to boost local tourism. Hemingways Holdings CEO Alastair Addison said...
View ArticleMPC rates decision postponed to today
The Central Bank yesterday moved its policy meeting to today, keeping the shilling steady in low volumes as traders awaited the outcome for interest rates. In the morning, commercial banks quoted the...
View ArticleSA firm makes Sh3 billion buy offer for AccessKenya
South African listed firm, Dimension Data, has offered to buy local internet service provider AccessKenya for Sh3.05billion. The company announced yesterday it had made an open market offer to purchase...
View ArticleRaila asked to accept verdict
KAKAMEGA Senator Boni Khalwale has asked former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to accept the Supreme Court verdict of the March 4 election. Speaking in Kakamega yesterday, Khalwale said that Raila’s...
View ArticleMurder suspect lynched in Rawa
A man who allegedly hacked his uncle to death over a land dispute three weeks ago at Rawa village in Siaya, was yesterday lynched by residents. The man is said to have gone into hiding after the...
View ArticleFlood victims get relief food
MORE than 500 families in Kamolo and Amoni locations in Teso North yesterday received government relief food and non-food items. Teso North deputy county director, Josephine Onunga and MP Arthur Odera...
View ArticleMumias Sugar shuts down for annual factory maintenance
Mumias Sugar Company has closed operations for its annual routine factory maintenance. The company’s corporate affairs manager Athman Wangara said the maintenance was being done two months early...
View ArticleMillie says MPs should be paid like 10th House
MBITA MP Millie Odhiambo has said she does not support MPs' call for an increase in salaries. Addressing the press at Mbita at the weekend, Millie said the MPs should be paid what they earned in the...
View ArticleBishop roots for women leaders
COUNTRIES which have women as leaders have low levels of corruption, a Catholic Bishop has said. Bishop Norman King’oo of Bungoma Diocese said women presidents are less corrupt. Speaking during the...
View ArticleVihiga woman injured in Imbiga rock blasts
Residents of Kituru village in Vihiga have spent seven days in the cold watching rock explosions. Imbinga rocks exploded leaving one person injured on friday night. The 50 feet tall twin rocks which...
View ArticleMasinde Muliro search for Vice Chancellor
THE vice chancellor of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology Prof Barasa Wangila is set to be replaced by the university council. Wangila has served as the university's VC since 2006 when...
View ArticleUhuru told to take up Nyanza projects
AN ODM party official in Kisumu has asked President Uhuru to tour Nyanza and initiate development projects. Kisumu Town East constituency ODM Chairman George Okwach told Uhuru to make good his promise...
View ArticleKisumu to computerise revenue collection system
KISUMU county government is exploring the possibility of automating its revenue collection systems to prevent losses through tax collection. Deputy governor Ruth Odinga yesterday said that the council...
View ArticleKhaniri links rising insecurity to inefficient police force
VIIHIGA senator George Khaniri has asked the government to tackle rising insecurity. Khaniri said the crime wave in the county has reached worrying levels and accused the police of sleeping on the job....
View ArticleFloods continue to wreak havoc in Siaya
MORE than 150 households have been displaced and more than 200 acres of crops swept away in Ugenya constituency. East and West Ugenya Wards have been affected after River Nzoia burst its banks...
View ArticleUgandans held over Bungoma attacks
A special CID unit has been sent to Bungoma to probe the spate of robberies and killings. Four Ugandans Samin Seja, Shaban Sibuor, Sadam Muhamed and Kiwanuka Rashid suspected to be behind the attacks...
View ArticleMP plans Bill to bar NCPB from fertiliser trade
Kiminini MP Chris Wamalwa will introduce a bill in Parliament to bar National Cereals and Produce Board from importing fertiliser. Wamalwa said the NCPB has been delaying the importation and delivery...
View ArticleMandago, Tarus in joint project
KACHIBORA Two counties from North Rift will cooperate in various areas of development to boosts resident’s livelihoods. Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago and Trans Nzoia deputy governor Stanley...
View ArticleSunkuli aide's burial today
THE head of communication for Narok politician Andrew Sunkuli, Moses Koech, who passed away last week, will be buried today at his Kapkee home in Elgeyo-Marakwet. Koech who used to coordinate the media...
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