Nokia launches cheap smartphone to fend off competition
Nokia has launched a Sh8,500 smart phone targeted the youth to fend off competition particularly from Huawei's Idios. The low-cost touch phone Nokia Asha 501 will be available at local shops from June...
View ArticleSecond power plant adds 36MW at Olkaria III
Ormat Technologies, the private owner of Olkaria III complex in Naivasha, has announced completion of the second plant at the site with an output of 36 megawatts of electricity. The New York Stock...
View ArticleKidero promise of free land to investors
NAIROBI county governor Evans Kidero has promised to create land banks in the county to enable investors get land for development. Kidero assured all investors that as the governor of the capital city...
View ArticleStanchart to issue new ATM cards from September
STANDARD Chartered Bank Kenya will start issuance of new pin and chip cards in September to enhance security of its customers ATM cards. Speaking yesterday during the opening of its first digital...
View ArticlePosta projects Sh3.5b full year revenue
STATE-OWNED Postal Corporation of Kenya expects to rake in Sh3.5 billion revenue by end of financial year ending June 2013 a 9.4 per cent increase from last year's turnover. Postmaster general Enock...
View ArticleRegional integration key for competitiveness - WB
A “competitiveness divide” exists among African countries, which has reflected in poor performance by the continent on the Global Competitiveness Index 2013 released by the World Bank. Rankings in the...
View ArticleKNUT rejects new KNEC proposal on exam fees
Kisii County Knut chairman John Makori yesterday told Kenya National Examination Council not to draft policies without the involvement of all education players. Addressing the press in Kisii, Makori...
View ArticleDisband CDF team, MP told
Teso South constituents call for nullification of new CDF team. BUSIA Teso South residents have called for immediate nullification of the elected CDF team. Speaking to the press yesterday, the...
View ArticleMAn held over murder
POLICE in Mumias are holding a 47-year-old man over alleged murder of his neighbour in Matungu district. Police chief George Seda said Juma Masese is suspected to have contributed to the death of Musa...
View ArticleMP moves to stop floods
UGENYA MP Dave Ochieng has engaged experts to do a feasibility study on River Nzoia in a bid to end perennial flooding in the region.Speaking to the Star after chairing the District Disaster Management...
View ArticleStar reporter fear for life
The Star newspaper journalist Shaban Makokha said his life is in danger after he was threatened by supporters of Kakamega governor Wycliffe Oparanya. Makokha who is based in Mumias recorded s statement...
View ArticleUnion faults tea factories
KISII A workers union has accused tea factories in Nyamira and Kisii counties of summary dismissals. The Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union said the factories are infringing on the rights...
View ArticleDeliver services in kisumu ODM official tell Ranguma
SOME ODM party officials have lashed out at the Kisumu governor Jack Ranguma accusing him of dwelling on unimportant issues in the county. Kisumu Central and Kisumu Town East ODM chairmen Seth Ochieng’...
View ArticleMigori reps begin vetting
MIGORI county representatives have begun vetting cabinet nominees after the county parliament was adjourned indefinitely. Members of the public in the last two days have been giving their opinion to...
View ArticleMob lynches two buglars
Two suspected burglars were yesterday lynched by an angry mob in Kehancha town. The burglars were suspected to have stolen from a clothes store in the town the previous night. They were trailed by...
View ArticleBusia governor under fire over sugarcane zoning declaration.
IRATE sugarcane farmers from Busia county have faulted governor Sospeter Ojaamong over his declaration to remove zoning in sugarcane farming. The farmers said the move might destroy the sugar industry...
View ArticleMising man found buried
THE body of a 31-year-old man was yesterday found buried in a deserted house in Teso North district. Residents of Kaliwa in Onyunyur sub-location found the body of Dennis Okwara who had gone missing...
View ArticleMan searches for wife, 4 children
TESO NORTH A man has searched for his wife and four children fro two months. Fernandes Emase from Angurai village yesterday said he had not quarelled with his wife, Sylvia Asemeit when she left.“I have...
View ArticleAnti-jigger war launched
COMMUNITY Health volunteers and local leaders in virembe village in Shinyalu constituency have launched a two-month anti-jigger campaign targeting 7, 000 residents. The campaign is sponsored by...
View Article300,000 infested with jiggers in Western kenya
MORE than 300,000 people are infested by jiggers in Western Kenya, the Kenya Red Cross Society has said. Speaking at Homaline Primary School in Muhoroni during the launch of the World Red Cross day,...
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