An international logistics company with major operations in both Mombasa and Nairobi decided to conduct a job and salary review. In it, the firm endeavoured to investigate job descriptions, grades, reporting structures and salary levels. The leadership pondered the implications of retaining …
Tap digitisation for energy reforms
The saying problems can be the source of opportunities seems to be relevant to the energy sector in Kenya. The government’s intervention, for example, in the affairs of the debt-ridden Kenya Power presents an opportunity to reform the sector.
The energy sector could replicate the transform…
Co-op Bank profit rises 18.9pc to Sh12bn
Co-operative Bank posted an 18.9 percent net profit increase in the nine months to September on higher interest and non-interest income.
The bank’s net income in the review period stood at Sh11.6 billion, up from Sh9.7 billion a year earlier.
Total interest income rose 21.5…
Universities face closure in World Bank loan deal
SUMMARY
Thousands are likely to lose jobs under the plan to also merge the struggling parastatals.
Public universities have come under financial strain in recent years as a result of rapid expansion amid a dip in student enrolment.
The number of public universities and campuses grew fr…
Kiambu fails in bid to lift order in estate row
A court has declined a request by the Kiambu County government to lift an order halting a plan to convert a section of a residential estate in Ruiru into a rescue centre for gender-based violence survivors.
The Environment and Lands Court stopped the donor-funded project thro…
Uhuru’s budget for new President signals higher taxes
SUMMARY
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s last budget will put his successor under pressure to raise Sh342.20 billion additional revenue to implement his preferred projects.
Mr Kenyatta’s administration has proposed a budget of Sh3.31 trillion for the financial year starting July 2022, a month …
City Hall staff working at NMS threaten strike
Nairobi County staff seconded to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) have threatened to go on strike over delayed October salaries.
More than 6,000 workers say NMS that Lieutenant General Mohamed Badi leads failed to release the pay.
Kenya County Government Workers Unio…
Munya puts sugar cartels on notice in reforms push
The government has vowed to eradicate cartels exploiting sugarcane farmers.
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya termed as unfortunate that unscrupulous businessmen are making huge profits at the expense of farmers who toil to produce the key raw material for the manufacturing of the …
Court acquits four in Sh2.3bn Miwani Sugar land sale case
The Court of Appeal has acquitted four people implicated in the illegal sale of a parcel of land worth Sh2.3 billion belonging to the State-owned Miwani Sugar Company.
The appellate judges restored the ruling and order of the trial magistrate court that the accused persons ha…
Why KRA is eyeing the nice things you post on Facebook – VIDEO
On the day James Githii Mburu took over the corner office on the 3oth floor at the Kenya Revenue Authority’s Times Towers headquarters in Nairobi, he says he found a newspaper cartoon that summed up the organisation he was inheriting — a big dilapidated, weather-beaten, old land cruiser vehi…