James Oundo

Flat broke Laico Regency collapses, fires all its employees

Laico Regency which was formerly and popularly known as the Grand Regency is flat broke. The hotel has no signs of ever making a come back. With zero cash flow, Laico Regency has now started terminating contracts of its...

KRA freezes all KU bank accounts over Sh. 2 billion unpaid taxes

KU Bank Accounts: The Kenya Revenue Authority has frozen all bank accounts belonging to Kenyatta University over unpaid taxes amounting to Sh. 2 billion. According to a report that appeared in the Sunday Nation, the KRA resulted to blocking...

Ukur Yatani diverted Sh. 18.1 billion fuel subsidy to Chinese firm

Fuel Subsidy Scheme: The National Treasury under cabinet secretary Ukur Yatani diverted Sh. 18.1 billion fuel subsidy funds that were meant to cushion motorists from high fuel prices to the Chinese firm running SGR. This has been revealed by...

Salaries paid to Uhuru, Ruto staff rises to Sh. 8.64 billion in 12 months

Presidential Staff Salaries: The salaries and allowances paid to the staff of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto increased four times to Sh. 8.64 billion in the year ended June 30, 2021. According to the Controller of Budget,...

Sh. 2 billion money heist attempted at KCB

Kenya Commercial Bank has revealed that it suffered an attempted Sh. 2 billion money heist. The theft was attempted by a gang of hackers, who the bank did not identified as local or international. “In 2020, the KCB Group successfully...

Chinese firm to make over Sh. 106 billion profit from Expressway toll fees

The China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) that is constructing the Nairobi Expressway will rake in profit worth over Sh. 106 billion for the twenty seven years that it will operate the expressway. This means that the firm will...

1.23 million jobless Kenyans give up on ever finding jobs

Unemployment in Kenya: Over 1.2 million Kenyans who are jobless have given up on searching for jobs. The Kenyans, who total 1.23 million, have given up following fruitless searches for work. The majority of these are Kenyans aged between...

How you can own a home with 40 per cent of your pension benefits

Pension Mortgage in Kenya: In July 2021, the Co-operative Bank of Kenya  launched the first pension-backed mortgage loan facility in Kenya. This mortgage loan facility has been targeting members of pension schemes in the country. It is meant to enable...

Joseph Gitonga: What losing millions in land deals taught me

Joseph Gitonga is the Director of Sales and Marketing at real estate firm Username Investment Limited. We didn’t have much capital when we started this business. During our first land purchase process, we paid for a property that had been...

Safaricom to earn billions from installing smart water meters

Leading telecommunications firm Safaricom could earn billions of shillings in annual revenue from installing smart water meters. The firm is seeking to install the smart water meters on behalf of water companies across the country in a bid to...

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Equity Group, AMREF university partner to strengthen healthcare education and innovation across Africa

Equity Group Holdings and AMREF International University (AMIU) have signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen healthcare education,...