James Oundo

KCB Bank Kenya raises interest rates on new and existing loans

KCB Bank Kenya has raised its lending rates on new and existing loans. The bank has announced that the new base lending rates will come into effect on May 27 2024 for new loan facilities and July 1 2024...

Details of Sh. 472 billion new Nairobi-Mombasa Expressway deal

The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has signed a multi-billion new Nairobi-Mombasa Expressway deal. The new deal has been entered into between KeNHA and US infrastructure investment manager Everstrong Capital. The new deal is a $3.6 billion (about Sh. 472...

KCB overtakes Equity with Sh. 16.5bn net profit, Sh. 1.99 trillion assets in Q1

KCB Group has overtaken the Equity Group on net profit and total assets in the first quarter of the current 2024 financial. This comes after KCB Group announced a 69 per cent net profit jump to Sh. 16.48 billion in...

JKIA stuck with one runway as Rwanda, Ethiopia building new mega airports

For many years, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport was the hub of continental and international air travel in the Eastern Africa region. This glory has faded over the last few years as countries in the region which once looked...

RwandAir and Qatar Airways building new Kigali airport to rival Ethiopia’s Bore

RwandAir and Qatar Airways are constructing a mega airport in Kigali, Rwanda, that is expected to rival the Bore International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This international airport is expected to open sometime between 2027 and 2028. The project was...

KCB Group starts shifting to solar power to avoid Kenya Power outages

KCB Group has become the latest major company in Kenya to embrace solar power as an alternative to Kenya Power. The bank has announced that it has installed solar power in two of its branches as it seeks for...

Matatu Sacco Nicco Movers acquires 30 buses in Co-op Bank financing deal

Matatu Sacco Nicco Movers Ltd has acquired 30 brand new buses in a financing deal with the Co-operative Bank. The Sacco on Thursday received the second batch of 8 out of the 30 buses that have been financed by...

Co-op Bank’s net profit rises to Sh. 6.6 billion in first three months of 2024

The Co-operative Bank had announced a net profit of Sh. 6.58 billion in the first three months of the current 2024 financial year. This represents a profit growth of 7.7 per cent compared to the Sh. 6.11 that the bank...

Eliud Kipchoge caught up in married couple’s Sh. 100 million property fight

Kenya's most prominent marathon runner of all time Eliud Kipchoge has been dragged to court over a multi-million property dispute. Kipchoge has been dragged to court together with three others over the ownership of a property valued at Sh. 100...

Co-op Bank to lend Sh. 3.32 billion to women-owned SMEs across Kenya

The Co-operative Bank is set to start funding small and medium enterprises that are owned by women. This is after the bank received Sh. 3.32 billion long term loan for onward lending to this category of small and medium...

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Households risk jail, Sh50,000 fine for paying house helps less than Sh18,000

Households and other employers who underpay domestic workers risk prosecution, including fines of up to Sh50,000, the government has...