Your county government flew its officials to Dubai and Singapore to learn “emotional intelligence” — while leaving local suppliers owed a combined Ksh.172 billion. This is not a rumour. It is the official finding of Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o,…

Here is what tax evasion looks like in practice: you import over 55,000 smartphones, tell the Kenya Revenue Authority you only brought in 3,000, and hope nobody checks the boxes. Someone almost pulled it off. The Kenya Revenue Authority has…

There is a quiet lie that Kenyan politics has told for generations: that age equals wisdom, that grey hair means good governance, and that young people should wait their turn. It has never been true. But it has been useful…

Every bottle you throw away is someone’s paycheck. But that someone is working the hardest and getting paid the least — and the system designed to fix this is failing them. The Hidden Economy Beneath Your Feet Walk past any…

Imagine spending years servicing a mortgage, finally settling into a home you planned to pass down to your children — and then being told to pack your bags because the building might collapse. That is exactly what is happening right…

Here is something the financial headlines won’t tell you plainly: Kenya’s Central Bank just walked away from Sh31.2 billion — real money, sitting on the table — because the investors offering it wanted too much in return. That decision, made…

For over a decade, the Dangote refinery was a promise. A massive, expensive, politically loaded promise that many Nigerians quietly doubted would ever be fulfilled. Then, in 2024, it started producing fuel — and suddenly, Africa’s most audacious infrastructure bet…

A Farm Wiped Out Overnight Peter Gitonga Kimani had 156 pigs. He had a plan. He was holding his stock until mid-term, waiting for the market price to peak, calculating the kind of return that takes years of grinding work…