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Security agencies main gainers in Sh17bn second mini-budget

Nairobi, June 17 -- Kenya's security agencies are the biggest winners in the freshly tabled second supplementary budget for the current 2025-26 financial year, which proposes to raise spending by Sh17... Read More


'Disclosure Day': Religion, politics and aliens play out in polarising sci-fi

Nairobi, June 16 -- Marketing can make or break a film, and in the case of Disclosure Day, I think it did more harm than good. The trailers promised something closer to Denis Villeneuve's Arrival or e... Read More


Building wealth: Why diversification could be your financial lifesaver

Nairobi, June 16 -- For many professionals in Kenya, wealth building is anchored on a salary. However, the same salary pays bills, supports family needs, services loans, and if one is disciplined, lea... Read More


How an 'inconclusive' deal left Telkom Kenya in the throes

Nairobi, June 16 -- Nearly four years after Kenya bought out private equity investor Helios from Telkom Kenya, the transaction continues to generate legal fallout, with businessman John Ngumi seeking ... Read More


Singapore dream: The middle class must trade cynicism for civic action

Nairobi, June 16 -- The Kenyan middle class is trapped in a paradox of privilege. We are highly educated, globally connected, and financially secure enough to afford private solutions to public failur... Read More


Sh280bn hidden diaspora remittances now revealed

Nairobi, June 16 -- Kenyans living abroad are sending home about Sh280 billion annually in unrecorded remittances through informal channels and non-monetary items, indicating that they are playing a b... Read More


Acquisitions loom as micro banks face higher capital limit

Nairobi, June 16 -- At least half of Kenya's 14 microfinance banks face pressure to raise an estimated Sh2.9 billion to meet newly proposed minimum core capital requirements by the Central Bank of Ken... Read More


The business of looking rich: Why Kenyans are buying knock-off brands

Nairobi, June 16 -- A pair of Gucci sneakers at a fraction of the price. A designer-looking handbag that passes for the real thing on Instagram. In Kenya's growing counterfeit luxury market, appearanc... Read More


Kenya's expanding definition of royalties

Nairobi, June 16 -- Tax authorities worldwide are struggling to adapt traditional systems to a digital, borderless economy. Modern business models increasingly rely on cloud computing, Software-as-a-S... Read More


Africa's ocean moment: From ambition to delivery

Nairobi, June 16 -- This week, as the global ocean community gathers in Mombasa for the Our Ocean Conference, Africa has an important opportunity to help shape the next chapter of ocean action, not as... Read More