Global leaders are expected to use the Connect Africa Summit 2024 platform to come up with policies that will accelerate both infrastructure development and investment in the digital economy. The summit will focus on Africa’s ICT priorities like bridging the digital divide at the same time identifying new investment opportunities as guided by the AU […]
Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui. PHOTO | File The government is planning to collaborate with the co-operatives sector to position Kenya as a leading superfood producer and exporter. Cabinet Secretary for Co-operatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Simon Chelugui said the government is zeroing in on the Ksh […]
The Kenya Port Authority (KPA) expects to receive three state-of-the-art Ship-to-Shore gantry cranes (STS) that will bolster the port’s performance. The STS that will arrive in the country on Sunday as the new port is projected to receive larger vessels. KPA Managing Director MD William Ruto Ethiopia Government has shown keen interest in using the […]
American Grammy Award Winner Chance the rapper announced his separationseparation with his wife Kirsten Corley yesterday 3, April, 2024. The couple tied the knot in 2019 and have shared five years together. During their marriage, they were blessed with two daughters. In a joint letter posted on both their Instagram, they shared that they were […]
Somalia has expelled the Ethiopian ambassador from the country and ordered the closure of two consulates. It accused Ethiopia of infringing on Somalia’s “sovereignty and internal affairs”. Somalia also recalled its ambassador from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, for “comprehensive consultations”. Ethiopia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nebiyu Tedla told Reuters news agency the government did not have […]
A DCI officer Inspector Kelian Felix Ole Kintosi, who died following an altercation with DJ Joe Mfalme and his handlers was buried in his Kajiado rural home. Kintos was buried in an emotional ceremony at his home in Kajiado County on April 2. The burial was attended by officers from the National Police Service (NPS) […]
Walter Onchonga Mong’are, popularly known as Nyambane, has been stripped of his role as the Director of Programmes, Advocacy, and Outreach in the State Department of Foreign Affairs. Mong’are was fired through an internal memo issued on Wednesday April 3, 2024, by Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Singoei stating that he was no longer authorized […]
Former US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Israel needs to “finish what they started,” adding they are losing the public relations war. “Every night, they’re releasing tapes of a building falling down. They shouldn’t be releasing tapes like that,” Trump said in an interview with The Hugh Hewitt Show that aired Thursday. “That’s why […]
Former Kisii Deputy Governor Joash Maangi’s nomination to head the high commission in Uganda faced intense scrutiny Thursday as he appeared before the Defense and Foreign Relations Committee for vetting. His nomination was overshadowed by an ongoing investigation by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) into a corruption scandal involving a National Housing Corporation (NHC) […]
Detectives in Nairobi have apprehended a prime suspect implicated in a Sh 151 million Tantalum mineral export scam to China. Agents attached to the Operations Support Unit (OSU) of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) nabbed Ulundu Patrick Lumumba, alias Gabriel Kulonda, along Harambee Avenue after arriving in the country from Entebbe, Uganda, on Friday […]
SBL Innovate Manufacturers Ltd Director Josiah Kariuki has been summoned to appear before parliament on Tuesday next week over the fake fertilizer expose. In a letter to Kariuki, the departmental committee on Agriculture and Livestock have invited Kariuki’s company to parliament to shed light on the issue of fake fertilizer. According to the letter, the […]
British lawmakers who may have been targeted in a sexting scam were urged Friday to go to police, after a senior Conservative admitted disclosing the personal phone numbers of some colleagues to an unknown individual who held “compromising” material on him. William Wragg, who chairs the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in Parliament, told […]