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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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...
View ArticleClients, 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...
View ArticleSafaricom 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....
View ArticleShilling 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...
View ArticleKenya 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...
View ArticleEAC 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...
View ArticleKenya 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...
View ArticleChartis 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...
View ArticleLandlords 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...
View ArticleLegendary 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...
View ArticleCelebrating 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...
View ArticleP-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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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...
View ArticleMr 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...
View ArticleNairobi 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...
View ArticleThe 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....
View ArticlePolice 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...
View ArticleKenya 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...
View ArticleAaradhya 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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