Former Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation, Mwangi Kiunjuri has accepted the president’s decision to relieve him of his duties, saying the decision did not catch him by surprise. Addressing the media hours after the Head of State announced his removal from the Cabinet,
All content service providers will now be required to channel all payment of royalties through a single centrally-managed account at the Kenya Copyright Board. President Uhuru Kenyatta has said this will enable oversight by the regulator and ensure that the collection distribution accounts are easily audited.
The M-pesa Foundation Academy has launched an 11-month post-high school programme for its 91 form four leavers intended to assist the students to define their career and entrepreneurial choices beyond the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams. The programme will also prepare the students for
On the international scene, Iran has signaled it favors a de-escalation after 10 days of heightened tensions with the united states during which both sides fired missiles and Tehran accidentally shot down a passenger aircraft. Security was stepped up in Iran’s capital Sunday after a vigil the previous night for those
Weathermen now says Kenya will expect continued and unexpected rainfall patterns well into the long rains season as sea temperatures rise due to global warming. Kenya’s weather patterns have witnessed drastic changes from the traditional rain cycles that farmers are used to and heavily depend on for
Asian shares shook off a quiet start to reach new 19-month highs on Monday ahead of the expected signing of a phase 1 China-U.S. trade deal, although markets have yet to see the details of the agreement. European bourses looked set to take a more skeptical view of the deal,
Ford motor CO’s China vehicle sales fell for a third consecutive year, by 26.1%, as it battles a prolonged overall sales decline in its second-biggest market that has hit demand for its mass-market ford brand and sports utility vehicles. The US automaker delivered 146,473 vehicles in
Exhausted fire-fighters said they had finally brought Australia's largest "mega blaze" under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires. New south wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast gospers mountain
Kenya’s biggest bank by assets, KCB will have to inject more capital into the National Bank of Kenya if it is to turn around the mid-sized bank’s fortunes. This even as KCB announced that it has injected five billion Kenya shillings in fresh capital into NBK.
The reality of the cost of implementing the competency-based curriculum is dawning on parents of children who are learning under this new system, whose implementation begun two years ago. Although observers agree that the new system is superior to the previous 8-4-4 system, critics of the
