Spielworks campaigns to win at Africa Oscars
One Kenyan production house has bagged seven nominations for the prestigious African Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards 2014 (AMVCA) the awards recognise the best talent in Pan African Film and Television....
View ArticleThree day regional mobile conference set for Nairobi
NAIROBI will from tomorrow host a three-day annual mobile East Africa conference. The 2014 conference at Southern Sun hotel, the fourth meeting since 2010, will discuss and analyse the future progress...
View ArticleGender survey on boards launched
The Chartered Institute of Marketing in partnership with SBO Research has launched a study on the percentage of women on boards of Kenyan companies. According to Boniface Ngahu of SBO Research, the...
View ArticleLaptrust chief executive picked to chair ECASSA
East and Central Africa Social Security Association has appointed Laptrust CEO Hosea Kili as its new chairman. The umbrella body for the social security sector and pensions schemes in East and Central...
View ArticleEssar workers want pay deal before planned sale
EMPLOYEES of Essar Telkom which runs the yU mobile network want to negotiate their retrenchment terms before a sale deal is made. The employees who moved to court to block the sale of the company and...
View ArticleJudge Joanne: Kenyan artistes operate in fear!
Reality TV dance judge Joanne believes that "Kenyan artistes’ are sometimes scared to work with each other" because of competition and fear of being overshadowed. Judge Joanne told Word Is, "I know...
View ArticleKenyan personalities take on how you should sleep
A number of Kenyan celebrities will be telling you how you should sleep at night. In a new malaria education campaign, top Kenyan personalities will encourage families to use mosquito nets and other...
View ArticleSafaricom and Equity killed M-Kesho - book
MISTRUST between mobile operator Safaricom and Equity Bank could have strangled the first mobile phone banking and savings platform called M-Kesho, a new book on the history of M-Pesa reveals. The...
View ArticleTwists and turns at EAPCC over board chairmanship
The appointment and installation of William Lay as the new East Africa Portland Cement Company chairman was yesterday revoked after the High court reinstated Mark ole Karbolo. Lay was introduced to the...
View ArticleSenate begins probe on Wambora impeachment
THE Senate yesterday began a probe into Embu Governor Martin Wambora's impeachment. This is despite a High Court order obtaained by Wambora barring the Senate from instituting the impeachment...
View ArticleWomen deny Sh18m fraud
KIAMBU:Two women were yesterday charged with obtaining goods worth Sh 18 million by false pretenses. Joyce Wanjiru and Jane Wanjiku allegedly obtained Mwea Pishori rice worth Sh 18 million the property...
View ArticleNditi ready to face Senate
EMBU: Deputy Governor Dorothy Nditi on Friday said she is ready to face the Senate committee probing her impeachment after a high court sitting in Kerugoya failed to issue injunction barring the team’s...
View ArticleMPs root for education shift
POLITICIANS and teachers in Kakamega county have differed over devolution of education. While MPs want the national government to transfer all education services to the county governments, teachers in...
View ArticleRutto defends counties' expenditure
Bomet Governor Isaac Rutto has defended county governments over allegations of lavish expenditure. Ruto, who is the chairman of the Governor's Council said it is natural for county governments to spend...
View ArticleMP to boost education
MURANG'A: An MP will work with teachers and parents to raise the poor education standards in her constituency. Kandara MP Alice Wahome has said she is committed in to bringing her constituency back to...
View ArticleRachel launches Table Banking
DEPUTY President's wife Rachel Ruto has said the poverty eradication programme started in 1999 has not achieved much. She was speaking over the weekend at the Siaya Cathedral ACK church. More than 100...
View ArticleKisumu majority leader slams Sh18 billion deal
A group of MCAs have told off Kisumu MPs for trying to undermine them over solid waste management in the county. Majority leader Samuel Ong’ow said the county is not ready to be 'robbed' a lot of money...
View ArticleYouth attack two at AIC Biribiriet church
Trans Nzoia political and church leaders have condemned a group of youth for attacking some people during a fundraiser at a church. AI C Biribiriet church chairman Eliud Sanga and former Cherengany CDF...
View ArticleNewsvendor murdered
A boda boda operator was on Sunday night killed in Migori town and his bike stolen by gangsters. Residents of Oruba Estate found the body of Harrison Ogolla Odhiambo, 32, on the road side. Odhiambo...
View ArticleNo sewerage system in Nyamira
NYAMIRA county commissioner Wilson Wanyanga has asked local politicians to support development initiatives by the national government. He said both the national and county government will work together...
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