Through much of his first term, conspiracy theorists wondered and tweeted that US President Trump must be a Russian agent
It’s the international friendships where one can most clearly see the costs mounting in real time. Just look at the statements coming from that mountain redoubt of global capitalism at Davos: Canadian prime minister Mark Carney – the leader of our closest ally and largest trading partner, whose military is now modelling doing battle with the US across what has long been the world’s longest unguarded border – got a standing ovation for a speech in which he proclaimed, “Let me be clear: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”
Privatisation: Kenya Pipeline Company Ltd launches largest ever IPO and first fully electronic public offer in Kenya’s capital markets history
Anchored by KPC’s strong fundamentals, including revenues of Ksh38.6 billion and after-tax profits of Ksh10.37 billion, for the financial year ended 30 June 2025 and supported by its 1,300-kilometre pipeline network that underpins national energy security and regional trade, the IPO marks a defining step in transforming a profitable state enterprise into a people-owned company while strengthening long-term economic resilience.
Child trafficking? Police in Kisumu rescue 12 Grade 10 students from fraudsters who had promised them scholars
Upon visiting the scene, police officers found a group of nine girls and three boys aged between 15 and 17 years, waiting near Manyatta Primary School with their luggage, dressed in different school uniforms.
Wastage in Kenya’s education system rises to all-time high as 700,000 students to drop out of school
Released in August 2023, the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform (PWPER) proposed the scrapping of the four-tier clustering of public secondary schools in favour a career-oriented categorisation that puts schools into three categories. The Prof Raphael Munavu-led team recommended three broad clusters namely; STEM, Social Science and Arts, and Sports Science.
Coffee auction at Nairobi Coffee Exchange rakes in $19 million with 40,918 bags sold
New KPCU PLC traded 6,107 bags at Ksh359 million, Kirinyaga Slopes Coffee Brokerage sold 5,461 bags at Ksh356 million, Kipkelion Broker Company Ltd traded 4,454 bags fetching Ksh254 million and Minnesota Coffee Marketers Ltd closed five top brokers with 2,392 bags that earned Ksh85.7 million.
KRA sets revenue collection record with $2.7 billion banked in December driven by robust oil sector and customs
This historic performance is largely attributed to strong growth in oil taxes, which grew by 23.9 per cent and recorded a performance rate of 103.7 per cent.
Catholic cardinals worried US foreign policy is driven by polarisation, partisanship, narrow economic and social interests
In a joint statement, Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of Washington and Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, warned that without a moral vision, the current debate over Washington’s foreign policy was mired in “polarisation, partisanship and narrow economic and social interests.”
South African firm eyes multimillion dollar geothermal deal in Kenya with potential to generate 10 gigawatts
Nakuru Deputy Governor David Cones announced that a team from the devolved unit will work with GDC and Iroko in carrying out the studies at Menengai Crater Geothermal-Powered Industrial Park, noting that besides electricity, geothermal energy provides direct heat to industrialists.
State moots Lower Turkwel Irrigation to put 3,000 hectares under crop in Kenya’s north-western drylands
Speaking during a high-level consultative meeting on the project held at the Hazina Trade Centre in Nairobi, Cabinet Secretary for ASALs and Regional Development Beatrice Askul Moe said irrigation remains central to the government’s strategy of transforming ASAL regions and delivering on the food security pillar of the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda.
State takes national identity cards civic campaign to remote and ‘hardship’ regions of Kenya
The principal secretary encouraged citizens to acquire national IDs to access government services, highlighting that over 400,000 users access the eCitizen platform daily, all of whom require a valid ID.
