Edwin Okoth
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KRA now targets casual workers, board members in housing levy deductions
KRA will also be targeting directors of companies earning sitting allowances whenever they hold meetings as the Kenya Kwanza government sets eyes on delivering 200,000 units per year.
Bitter stand-off over national power outage
Citizen Digital has established that engineers sent to inspect the 310MW power plant in Loyangalani were locked out the whole day while trying to extract information critical to determine how the power blackout happened.
Petrol cheaper in Kisumu than Nairobi and other EPRA pricing ‘errors’
A litre of petrol retailed at Ksh.182.04 in Nairobi where transport charged for its piping from Mombasa should be cheaper compared to what would be charged in Kisumu where it retailed at Ksh.181.87 per litre.
Kenyan engineer wins international award for innovative traffic management system
Engineer Nicholas Airo's company NAS International Holdings Limited designed the intelligent system that can give traffic from each side of the road time to move or stop.He was awarded the Excellence in Roads Africa award in Ghana on Wednesday.
Tough times for Treasury as lenders hold back, demand high returns
Raising debt from investors after showing signs of being broke and even failing to pay salaries for a section of civil servants has become a tall order as investors seek to cover risks by demanding high returns.The attempt to raise Sh30 billion from the domestic market saw the reopening of a 15-year...
Treasury seeks to breach Ksh.10 trillion debt ceiling
Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung'u proposes tying the debt limit to no more than 55 percent of the country's GDP in order to increase borrowing capacity.
State signs credit oil supply deal with Arab suppliers to ease dollar pressure and lower pump prices
The government-to-government (G to G) deal will see Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, advance diesel and Dual-Purpose Kerosene (DPK) twice a month with the payment falling due six months after the deliveries.Kenya hopes to relieve the dollar pressure by delaying the payments for petrole...
World Bank: Economies to lose billions for ‘ignoring women's equal rights'
Studies estimate global economic gains of $5 - 6 trillion if women started and scaled new businesses at the same rate as men do.The World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law index rose just half a point to 77.1—indicating women, on average, enjoy barely 77 per cent of the legal rights that men do.