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FKF North Coast branch call off ties to honour deceased

SOCCER fields in the Northern Coast region will be deserted this weekend as fans across the region join hands to pay their last respect to the four departed players who perished last weekend after a...

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Off to Dubai

Dasani Gala winners jetted out to the Middle East brimming with confidence Winners of the Dasani Golf Gala grand finale jetted out of the country yesterday brimming with confidence ahead of the...

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Clients, Allow Agencies To Take Creative Risks

As the story goes , the wrangling couple and their child find themselves in front of a judge. “ Can I send you to live with your dad ?” The judge asks the little boy . “No! No! He beats me.” The little...

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Safaricom Moving Towards The Sh5 IPO Price

The Nairobi all share rallied 0.54 points to close at 93.13. The all share is +36.895487% in 2012 and this is a fresh 17-month closing high. The Nairobi NSE20 firmed 13.49 points to close at 4171.87....

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Shilling rises modestly vs dollar on tea inflows

THE shilling rose slightly against the dollar yesterday, supported by tea exporters selling dollars, but traders said greater dollar demand ahead of the Christmas holidays was likely to put pressure on...

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Kenya buys oil products and crude for 2 months

Kenya has agreed to buy more than 440,000 tonnes of oil products and 160,000 tonnes of Murban crude for delivery over December to January, consistent with previous volumes, traders said. The country's...

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EAC bloc wants joint geothermal policies

East African countries are exploring a possibility of joint geothermal development plans and funding to fast-track projects. Speaking at the ongoing African Rift Geothermal conference, Ugandan minister...

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Kenya ahead in mobile money

Kenya is ahead of the curve in fostering mobile payment services, providing fertile ground for adoption of international remittance services via mobile phones, a World Bank brief on global migration...

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Chartis goes back to AIG to reclaim lost glory

INSURANCE firm Chartis Kenya has reclaimed its US based parent company's brand name AIG after it said over 90 per cent of its clients preferred the former identity despite the woes that led to the...

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Landlords may soon share their data with tenants

KENYA Revenue Authority is seeking to make it “legally mandatory” for landlords to share their personal details with tenants to curb non-compliance in the rental market. Commissioner General John...

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Legendary playwright looms in the future

We have killed our past and are busy killing our future – Francis Imbuga In the land of the distant past, it is reported that a poet seeking to pick the brain of his interlocutors on the nature of...

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Celebrating Francis Imbuga, the quintessential playwright, author

Prof Francis Davis Imbuga touched many facets of my life. As a lecturer I remember coming to your office at KU to show you a script that I had written for you to peruse. Having gone through it, you...

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P-Unit to launch video at 'Hyped East Africa' Finale

HipHop sensation P-Unit and rapper Collo will be releasing the video to their much hyped song, You Guy this Saturday November 24 at Skyluxx, Westlands. There will be a live TV recording which will see...

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Starshot

Kristen Stewart will return to Snow White without Rupert Saunders Kristen Stewart will star in a Snow White and the Huntsman sequel, but director Rupert Sanders will not be returning. The Twilight Saga...

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Mr Lenny makes a comeback at the Guiness football challenge

Football fans who turned up for the Guinness Football Challenge auditions during the weekend were treated to a pleasant surprise after musician Mr Lenny who has been out of the limelight for a few...

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Nairobi Half life bags audience award in UK Festival

Kenyan gangster thriller, Nairobi Half Life bagged the Buni TV-sponsored Audience Award at the Film Africa festival’s closing ceremony in London on Sunday. Buni TV had partnered with three high-profile...

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The changing fortunes of Garissa town

From the safest town in East and Central Africa, the town is now the epicentre of retaliatory attacks by al Shabaab sympathisers Interpol once voted Garissa the safest town in East and Central Africa....

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Police Chiefs Goofed In Baragoi Massacre

In the most macabre attack against the Kenya Police force, more than 45 police officers were felled under heavy bandit fire in Suguta Valley last week; many more remain maimed and wounded. Barely a...

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Kenya To Join Middle Income Status 2025

Hardly a week goes by without an African investors’ conference or growth summit. Portuguese professionals are looking for opportunities in Angola. Silicon Valley companies are coming to Kenya to learn...

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Aaradhya Bachchan Turns One!

When I was one, judging from the photographs, I got a cake, a new pink dress, a set of rattles and I think I could see a huge teddy bear that my Grandpa had gifted me for my birthday. It seems like the...

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