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Turf wars at anti-counterfeit agency as legal chief interdicted
A senior legal official at the Anti-Counterfeit Authority has found himself at odds with the agency for blatant disregard for laws governing conflict of interest and abuse of office.
By Macharia Kamau
5d ago
The National Treasury is facing growing pressure to meet strict parliamentary conditions required for the sale of a 15 per cent stake in telecoms giant Safaricom to South Africa’s Vodacom.
By Brian Ngugi
5d ago
By Macharia Kamau
5d ago
By Brian Ngugi
1w ago
By Graham Kajilwa
1w ago
By Macharia Kamau
1w ago
A proposal by the NSE to have the Retirement Benefits Authority revise the allocation formula of assets under management in favour of equities has been termed impractical.
By Graham Kajilwa
1w ago
The government’s IPO of Kenya Pipeline Company has breathed some life into Kenya’s equity market, with the share sale setting the stage for a new wave of State-backed listings at the NSE.
By Macharia Kamau
1w ago
Kenya has been excluded from a new, ambitious $972 million (Sh125.38 billion) regional World Bank programme designed to tackle youth unemployment.
By Brian Ngugi
2w ago
A protracted legal war that began in 2016 between businessman Peter Burugu’s Bia Tosha Distributors Limited and Kenya’s leading brewer has evolved into a long-running commercial dispute.
By Kamau Muthoni
2w ago
The sale of government assets and the proposed establishment of Infrastructure Fund appear to give ammunition to critics of President William Ruto to poke holes into his economic policies.
By Macharia Kamau
2w ago
President Ruto's Sh4.7 trillion budget plan is designed to balance the demands of a fiscally constrained government against the immediate needs of restless Kenyans ahead of the elections.
By Brian Ngugi
3w ago
On December 13, 2023, a truck left Mastermind Tobacco Ltd’s premises in Nairobi with at least 1,150 cartons of SuperMatch cigarettes, however they vanished between Eldoret-Malaba highway.
By Kamau Muthoni
3w ago
The government is pursuing creative financing options to extend the SGR from Naivasha to Kisumu and to the Ugandan border at Malaba without relying on new debt from external lenders.
By Esther Dianah
3w ago
The dealings between Kenya Railways and Afristar, which operates the SGR, are again under scrutiny as an internal audit points to breaches in the public finance management laws.
By Macharia Kamau
1mo ago
A few years ago, when the Kenyan market was struggling to access dollars as inflation surged, the interest rate regime was the preferred capital mop-up tool for the government.
By Graham Kajilwa
1mo ago
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