Price of Cooking Gas to Drop
Cooking gas could soon be affordable. This will be possible if Parliament adopts proposed amendments to the VAT Act by the Treasury. This would effectively see Value Added Tax (VAT) on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) could be waived. Finance Minister Njeru Githae said the government’s policies have promoted the consumption of LPG…
Counterfeit Phones are Here to Stay
A mobile phone user in Kenya (Photo:Africa Renewal) The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has suspended the purported shut down of all counterfeit mobile phone handsets. The industry regulator had set a 30th April 2012 deadline for shutting down the fake gadgets. An official announcement from CCK…
Fuel Prices To Go Up
Motorist refuelling. (Photo: Nation) Kenyans could be subjected to yet another blow of increased pump prices come the new month. According to a report by the Nation, The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) director-general Kaburu Mwirichia said that…
2 Million Reasons Not To Cheat In National Exams
The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has released a draft bill (download it here) in which it has proposed stiffer penalties for exam cheats, the intention being to ensure that the integrity of national examinations is upheld. This is a wonderful idea as exam malpractices have…
First Customer Experience Center Launched in Kenya
Nakumatt Holdings sets the trend in establishing customer experience centres
Kenya’s Money in the Past (Part 1)
Duncan Ndegwa is a former head of the Kenyan Civil Service and Governor of the Central Bank. He published his autobiography Walking in Kenyatta Struggles in 2006. It’s a tale of history of Kenya, struggle for independence, nation building versus devo...
Can Coins Rust?
No really, can they? If you leave a Kshs. 20 coin out in the rain all by itself, cold and lonely, when you wake up the next day, if it’ll survive the many attempts by passers-by to claim ownership of it, will it rust? Ever thought about it? The…
Happy Easter!
We would like to wish all our readers a Happy Easter. Enjoy the long weekend and have as much fun as you can. Wherever you are going, drive safe. And spend money like there is a tomorrow! …
Jack Of All Trades And Master Of None?
Multitasking (Photo: examiner.com) The preaching from morning to evening in all corners of the nation hits the message. Develop the entrepreneurial mindset. So in our thousands we have taken the cue and joined the lucrative path, some of us leaving monthly secure paying jobs as one of our writers,…
The Cost Of Living In Kibera
Many have moved to Nairobi in search of greener pastures but all they find is a greater amount of financial difficulty and constraint. Mr. Johnston Kamau, once a coffee farmer moved to Nairobi in the early 1980’s when the international coffee prices had hit an extreme low. He expected things…
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