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Advance pay for Itare dam set up Kenyans for losses The site in Kuresoi South, Nakuru County, where Itare Dam was supposed to be built. The image was taken on September 17, 2019. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP The government may have set up taxpayers for a Sh4.3 billion loss by offering...

Chicken, pizza, burger most ordered food online despite health concerns Chicken, pizza and burger dominate delicacies that are ordered online amid health concerns about fast foods, which have been associated with lifestyle diseases. A report of food analysis released by Jumia Food Kenya...

Lamu Port could fail to attract Ethiopia and South Sudan markets who might opt for the Djibouti and Eritrea ports, according to the Shippers Council of East Africa (SCEA). The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia- Transport Corridor project pegs its sustainability on the two countries. According to...

Teen boda boda rider shot dead by navy soldier in Mombasa A 19-year-old boda boda rider was on Wednesday morning killed by a Kenya Navy soldier in Mtongwe, Mombasa. Leonard Komora was gunned down at around 6.45am outside the Kenya Navy staff quarters under unclear circumstances. The young man...

Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa has said locking out Mr William Ruto and Ms Martha Karua from the post-elections violence mediation team in 2008 helped secure a power-sharing agreement between President Mwai Kibaki and Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga. Violence erupted...

Graft suspects who return money can enter plea bargain — Haji 25 October 2019 - 00:00 Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji has asked leaders and civil servants facing corruption allegations to return the stolen money threefold or face the consequences. Haji revealed that the move is...

Sh300bn road project put on hold over debt The government has suspended the construction of the Sh300 billion Nairobi-Mombasa expressway for two years over the country’s debt concerns. It would have been Kenya’s first expressway and the largest single-contract road project. The project...

Kenya debt passes Sh5.9 trillion mark TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2019 8:19 BY GEOFFREY IRUNGU Kenya’s total public debt load edged closer to the Sh6 trillion mark in the first week of this month even as it emerged that 44 new foreign loan agreements have recently been put before Parliament for...

Alarm as 2,000 people lose jobs in three months News 05 October 2019 - 05:00 Thousands of families are staring at tough economic times following a wave of employee layoffs affecting many companies. At least 2,000 workers have lost their jobs since July and many more companies have...

Taxpayers have lost at least Sh1.4 billion after the Geothermal Development Company (GDC) cancelled a controversial geothermal contract handed to a Chinese company in 2014 to drill wells in Baringo. In what makes the State corporation one of the biggest black holes in the energy sector, which...

Painful death of sugar miller that reigned for over four decades THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26 2019 Huge rollers that once pressed sugarcane juice out of the shredded stalks at Mumias Sugar Company are rotting away. Machines are quiet. The smoke that once punctured the blue sky above them is gone...

Kenya’s potential undone by barons, cartels — envoy In Summary • The Galana-Kulalu irrigation project is the first-ever government-to-government development project to fail in the history of Israel • Gendler believes there are many groups that wanted the project dead, and he believes they have...

Kenya Airways to cut flights over shortage of pilots TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 10 2019 Kenya Airways (KQ) is set to cut down on routes and hire 20 pilots on contract to reduce flight cancellations that are costing the national carrier Sh5 billion annually. In a memo to pilots, director of flight...

02 September 2019 - 05:00 If you travel frequently on Kenya Airways without baggage to check-in, chances are the chatty customer service agent with a killer smile who checks you in for your flight and wishes you safe flight” in a beautiful voice could be preying on you. The details of this are...

02 September 2019 - 05:00 Kenya Airways bought two second-hand planes at Sh2 billion from one of its major shareholders, KLM, and then sold them at just Sh200 million after five years. The transaction that was never on the KQ plans, and which one of the KQ managers said was “rushed”, cost the...

By ALLAN OLINGO Kenya Airways has cancelled more than 52 flights in the first 18 days of August and delayed 40 per cent of its successful trips this year at an astronomical cost to the taxpayer. According to a confidential memo, which opens a window into what ails the loss-making carrier...

Kenyans should expect no revenues yet following Thursday’s announcement that the country was selling its first crude oil to China. Petroleum principal secretary Andrew Kamau said the $12 million to be received from the sale will largely be used to cover for the expenses that the explorer and the...

A family in Eburinde village, Butere Sub-County in Kakamega was thrown into shock and grief after county officials forced the exhumation of the body of an employee who had been buried in service uniform. Mr Martin Shikuku Alukoye, 31, who worked with the Kakamega County Youth Service, drowned in...