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How I set up my chicken, cattle and passion fruits farm with Sh. 25,000

Jane Kendi lives in Weru, approximately 17km from Chuka town in Tharaka Nithi County. She runs a three-and-a-half-acre farm which has maize, beans, chickens, pigs, goats, fish, passion fruits and a cow. Kendi keeps all the animals and grows the various...

It’s time to get quality home and kitchen appliances at a bargain

How often do you replace your household items? When was the last time you got rid of that broken refrigerator, microwave or washing machine? Chances are that you are likely still holding unto them despite their usefulness having come...

How I turned my disastrous watermelon farming around to make millions

BY JOSEPH MUCHIRI / THE STANDARD Dr. John Kanya has been a watermelons farmer since 1996. “I started planting water melons in 1996 with the excitement of a newbie. But along the way, I encountered thorns. I harvested all these tonnes of melons...

Ex Uchumi CEO Ciano escapes fraud charges

Former Uchumi CEO Jonathan Ciano has been freed over fraud charges related to the Sh. 895 million 2014 Uchumi Rights Issue. In making the ruling, Justice George Odunga found that Mr Ciano had been taken through a faulty disciplinary process,...

Parking at JKIA to cost you Sh. 500 per hour

Parking at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport just got super expensive. From now on, parking at JKIA will now cost you Sh. 500 per hour. The newly revised JKIA parking rates provided by Kenya Airports Parking Services (KAPS Ltd) will see...

4 ways to gauge if your business idea will make money

1. Join an online community. All great business ideas come from solving your biggest frustrations; the ones are also facing with similar obstacles. Want to uncover which problems you could get paid to help people solve? Join a topically relevant group on...

Train services along Kahawa-City Centre route to start on Monday

Kenya Railways (KR) has announced that it will from Monday (April 16) start commuter train services to the city centre. In a statement, KR said the move will help ease congestion at bus stations and along major roads leading in...

KRA nominated for prestigious global award

Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has been selected as one of the 39 global and only African finalist for the prestigious Oracle CX Excellence Awards to be announced this tomorrow in Chicago, USA. In a communique  from global technology firm Oracle, KRA has...

10 uncomfortable things that could make you succeed

Staying in your comfort zone means stagnation. Just as an oyster only makes a pearl when it’s irritated by a grain of sand, no one has ever accomplished anything remarkable when comfortable. These 10 uncomfortable things could see you...

We don’t regret quitting employment to start a business

Joan Muthoni and Margaret Wairimu were fortunate to secure good jobs in the legal, information technology and insurance sectors after completing their university studies. And for four years, they ran the employment course without a hitch. “Our jobs were quite...

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