Vision 2030 Delivery Board Chairman James Mwangi addresses a business community at English Point Marina in Mombasa on August 9, 2018. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP Rights without responsibility is Kenya’s worst dilemma, fuelling a smouldering liberal activism now fuelling resistance to taxation to fund development. Making corruption an expensive affair will force […]
An attendant fills a tank at a fuel station in Nyeri on June 14, 2016. FILE PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NATION MEDIA GROUP The standoff between the government and taxpayers over the 16 per cent value added tax (VAT) on petroleum products since September 1 is a good opportunity for dialogue on collection and […]
National Treasury PS Kamau Thugge. He insists that the exchequer did not give permission to any private firm to collect funds on its behalf. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP By the time that the government asked the service provider, Safaricom, to stop Goldrock from collecting the money in 2014, more than Sh5.6 billion […]
A locomotive at the construction site of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 23, 2018. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images) The 2018 Forum On China-Africa Cooperation held in Beijing from Sept. 3 to 4 ended with much hype as Beijing pledged $60 billion in aid and loans to African nations. However, behind the […]
Travellers book their tickets in Kisii on September 2, 2018. Fares have been increased. PHOTO | MAGATI OBEBO | NATION MEDIA GROUP Bus companies have increased their fares following a hike in fuel prices. In Kisii, some travellers in Kisii were forced to postpone their journeys. Even transport firms like Transline and Premium, whose fares […]
Household goods company Tropikal Brands Afrika has sued Uchumi Supermarkets for Sh35 million unpaid supplies, almost a year after the firm revealed it had taken struggling retailer Nakumatt to court. The firm says Uchumi has failed to settle the debts, some dating back five years, despite the credit period within which the arrears were to […]
When a woman rises to the top rung of the traditionally all-male corporate ladder in Africa, it’s front-page news because women’s progress in business leadership on the continent continues to be achingly slow. According to a groundbreaking 2015 study by the African Development Bank (AfDB) titled Where Are the Women? Inclusive Boardrooms in Africa’s Top-Listed […]
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