Mumias Resident professional Dismas Indiza is a heart beat away from winning the third round of the KCB East African Tour following his brilliant display at the par 70 Nyanza Golf Club. Oozing confidence from his opening shot, Indiza maintained his lead into the second day but went to bed knowing a slip up in today’s round could cost him the Sh110,000 prize money stake for the winner. Yesterdayhe scored an impressive round of 4 under par 66 for a total of 10 under par 130. On his way up, Indiza sunk four birdies in the first nine and three in the second...
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Indiza holds on to lead after Day Two of KCB Tour
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Fan gets life ban
Axe falls on football fan caught on camera causing trouble at Leopards and Chemelil game In a move meant to send a strong message to fans who breach the peace at match venues, the AFC Leopards identified as Mr. Dennis alias Derrick (pictured in yesterday’s newspapers being held back by Leopards steward Mulamula and police officers) has been banned for life. he has been barred from entering any stadium during football matches...
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Nakuru best at athletics show
Jeruto runs away with the steeplechase gold medal at Moi. Kasarani finals Nakuru region dominated the athletics programme of the Brookside Kenya Secondary School Sports Association finals came to a close at Moi-Kasarani yesterday. The 2011 Commonwealth youth 2,000m champion Norah Jeruto of Nakuru returned a time of 10:11.4 to grab the 3,000m steeplechase title. The elder sister of Africa 2,000m youth champion Daisy Chepkemei, could not hide her joy after winning her first ever national title. “I am very happy,” said Jeruto. “The race was tough but I had prepared adequately...
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Miss World Kenya's day out
Miss World Kenya 2012 Shamim Nabil visited New Life Homes in Nairobi, an institution which cares for vulnerable children. She was accompanied by Ashleys CEO Terry Mungai. They presented food donations to the home. Shamim Nabil recently confessed that she is l ooking for a job as a Swahili news anchor. The 20-year-old model has taken an interest in the silver screen and is determined to get a screen test in as many TV stations as possible. She told Word is, “I would like to get into media. Even as an intern. I’m a fast learner and I have a passion for the media profession.....
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Nairobi phase of Project Ten Cities begins
After the launch in Luanda last year, followed by phases in Lagos and Johannesburg, the Ten Cities project that brings together 50 DJs, producers and musicians from Africa and Europe is set to hit Nairobi. The first sound bites of the Nairobi co-operation will be performed at a concert on April 27 at the Marshalls Service Workshop. Notable Lisbon-based DJs Batida and Octa Push will be producing new tracks with Just A Band and Camp Mulla among other artistes, as well as exchanging knowledge about the club scenes in their respective countries...
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Kenyans qualify for Pan African football contest
Four Kenyan teams have qualified for the Guinness Football Challenge Pan African phase that is schedule to start next week in South Africa. The four pairs from Kenya - Francis Ngigi and Kepha Kimani, Kenneth Kamau and Willis Ogutu, Ephantus Nyambura and Samuel Papa, Kenneth Muturi and Chris Mwangi - will join one team from Tanzania, five teams from Ghana and five teams from Cameroon in the contest that will see the overall winner crowned the Pan African champion and a cash prize of $250,000 (Sh21.25 million)...
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Camp Mulla to launch solo careers
Plans are at an advanced stage for hip-hop award-winning group, Camp Mulla, to launch solo musical projects. Speaking to Word Is, one of the group members, Shappa Man, said in about two months, the group will be launching solo singles, throwing speculation of whether the group is headed for disintegration. "There is a time at some point as a group when you feel the push to establish your individual members to the fans, and this is what we are trying to do. This may be the start of a journey to our individual solo careers but not yet...
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Spotted
Spotted: Citizen TV news anchor Janet Mbugua walking along City Hall Way in Nairobi on Tuesday morning. She had a pair of grey jeans and black sweater and was carrying a red handbag.
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East African Staple Foods cookbook launch
With the Kenyan lifestyle undergoing dynamic change, the Eastern Africa Grain Council launched a cookbook manual that outlines and informs the public on eating nutritional and healthy foodstuffs. The 82 Staple Foods cookbook was unveiled at a function held at the Safari Park Hotel on Thursday. The book taps into the rich African heritage of delicate cuisine, explores new methods to prepare our foods and enhances nutrition and gastronomy in our pursuit of achieving food security and good nutrition...
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Leaders should get their priorities right
When Kenyans went to the polls on March 4, hopes were high that the incoming leaders would be different from their predecessors. It was the expectation of the electorate that the new leadership will have the best interests of Kenyans top on its agenda. It is now more than a month since the elections were held and the new leaders have settled in their offices. But to the utter surprise and disbelief of many Kenyans, the new leadership appears more actuated by its own interests than the well being of Kenyans...
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Rains have wreaked havoc in game parks
Deputy President William Ruto was quoted as saying that Kenyans have a special way of doing their thing. I certainly concur with him. After such a grueling period of politicking, competition, winning and losing, things seem to have come back to normal all over the country. What is noticeably abnormal is the rains. Rains have been falling much like the El Niño times. But unlike the El Niño, the rains are falling erratically. I had an opportunity to go round the traditional tourist circuit and what I found out was amazing. In Amboseli, the rains have not reached there yet...
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Where are the fanatics who could kill for Uhuru or Raila?
I wonder how all those people who spent time feuding over their support for Uhuru Kenyatta or Raila Odinga after the March 9 Supreme Court decision must have felt on Saturday last week when these supposed enemies were seen laughing fit to split their ribs on the State House Nairobi veranda? I've said it before and I'll say it again, ordinary voters have no idea about the agenda of the people they elect and get all fanatical about and those people have very little if any time for you and your hurt feelings...
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Letter To My Friend Ngunjiri Wambugu
My dear friend Ngunjiri Wambugu: Allow me to vehemently disagree with you over your recommendation that the International Criminal Court (ICC) cases on Kenya should be withdrawn now that at least 6.1 million Kenya voted for the Jubilee Coalition ticket comprising ICC suspects President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto. For if, today, 40 million Kenyans collectively and universally voted that we should immediately commit suicide, should you or I be bound to national hara kiri? Can popular vote or will trump fundamental rights and the human values that undergird any democracy?...
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Kenya's Fly In The Soup Challenge
For 50 years, Kenya’s branding challenge has remained remarkably the same: how to diminish - to insignificance - the ugly in the beautiful. Or, to use a more graphic, if somewhat revolting metaphor, how to avoid the ‘fly in the soup’ curse. (By “fly in the soup’ I mean it plainly, not as the usual joke!). The ‘flies in the soup’ in Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s years were the assasinations of Tom Mboya, Josiah Mwangi Kariuki and others, detentions and tourture, and the seeds of corruption and ethnic division...
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Kenya Railways slashes off-peak fares
Kenya Railways has slashed fares to Sh30 for a one-way ticket during off-peak hours as it targets mass commuters on the Syokimau train service. The firm has been charging Sh100 for a return ticket, peak and off-peak, translating to Sh50 one way. "The introduction of the new fares is as a result of an assessment of commuter trends and travel habits in Nairobi. The reduced fares are aimed at stimulating demand for off-peak train services," managing director Nduva Muli said...
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Dollar demand slightly affects shilling
The Kenya shilling weakened slightly early on Friday, weighed down by dollar demand from importers and banks covering their positions before the weekend. But traders said the local currency could firm next week aided by foreign investor inflows into bonds. Leading commercial banks quoted the shilling at 83.80/84.00, slightly weaker than the 83.70/90 it closed at on Thursday. It is 2.6 per cent firmer so far this year...
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Naikuni denies reports 'he is leaving KQ for Cabinet post'
KENYA Airways CEO Titus Naikuni has refuted reports that he has resigned from the company. Speaking yesterday at the airline's Pride Center in Embakasi, Naikuni termed the reports as non factual adding that he does not know what the future holds and as such will not speculate. "I am here, i have not resigned. I do not know about the future, tomorrow the situation could change," said the KQ boss. Rumours of his resignation spread fast yesterday on twitter and facebook with one media house picking the reports to announce the alleged resignation by Naikuni...
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High staff costs eating into banks earnings - report
Commercial banks are grappling to keep their employees costs down as they seek to save their earnings. The banks were last year hit by a 13 per cent increase in employment costs which out-paced the annual rate of inflation at 9.4 per cent. According to an analysis by audit firm RSM Ashvir, the employment, costs including directors remuneration, for banks accounted for 17.2 per cent of the total income for banks...
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KRA collects Sh179bn from January to March
The Kenya Revenue Authority has collected Sh179.7 billion between January and March, rising by 12 per cent over Sh160.4 billion in a similar period last year. The taxman said performance in the third quarter was mixed, with January posting a strong growth of 25.3 per cent followed by a sharp slowdown in February and March at an average 5.8 per cent. Cumulative revenues for the nine months to March have increased to Sh560.4 billion from Sh498.6 billion collected in a similar period a year ago, a 12.4 per cent growth...
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Just one bank yet to meet core capital law
One bank is yet to meet the minimum core capital requirement of Sh1 billion as set out by the Central Bank of Kenya. According to CBK, as per the 2012 audited financial statements, two banks had not met the minimum core capital levels of Sh1 billion but one of them complied in February through a shareholders injection. A summary of the 2012 financial results show the banks that were under Sh1 billion core capital mark were Equatorial Commercial Bank and Dubai Bank. Equatorial Commercial had Sh547.7 million core capital while Dubai had Sh893.3 million by the close of the year...
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