On May 23, 2024, David Muriithi Miano woke up to find money gone from not one, but two of his savings accounts at Fortune Sacco. He had never signed up for mobile banking. He had never authorised a single transaction.…
Picture this: it is Wednesday morning, the pump attendant replaces the numbers on the board, and just like that, the price of 95 unleaded petrol clears R30.25 per litre in Gauteng. A R3.33 jump, overnight, without warning, without apology. For…
Kenya’s Roads Are Killing Us, and the Numbers Aren’t Going Down The National Transport and Safety Authority has identified more than 270 road crash black spots across Kenya, with 199 of them concentrated along the Mombasa-Malaba Northern Corridor — even…
Kenya’s coffee sector just posted its best numbers in years. Sh41 billion. Forty-seven million kilogrammes. A 15 percent jump from the previous year’s Sh35.6 billion. On paper, this looks like a win. But if you’re a smallholder farmer in Meru…
Mobile money giants M-Pesa and Airtel Money will be legally required to immediately disclose cyber incidents — including mobile money fraud and hacking attacks — to the Central Bank of Kenya under sweeping new regulatory proposals designed to protect millions…
The Work Was Done. The Money Never Came. Imagine showing up to teach, doing the work, marking the papers, and then waiting — not for weeks, not for months, but for an entire decade — to be paid. That is…
People are dying. Not on a battlefield, not from a disease with a complicated name — they are dying in Kiambu and Kirinyaga because someone, somewhere, mixed chemicals in a backroom and sold the result as alcohol. Deputy President Kithure…
The Money Is Already Moving Before a single barrel of oil flows through the proposed Lamu refinery, the contracts are already flying — and the early winners are not Kenyan firms. The Sh2.1 trillion Dangote Industries refinery project, designed to…
The Ground Beneath Their Feet Long before Aliko Dangote’s billions arrived in Lamu, the people of Chandavai were already there. They farmed the land. They buried their dead in it. They built mosques and homes on it. For generations, this…
Something is quietly breaking inside Kenya Power’s business model, and the numbers don’t lie. Despite connecting more Kenyans to the national grid, the utility giant is watching revenue from new customers collapse — down a staggering Sh1.07 billion in the…
