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The Kenyatta’s are arguably one of the wealthiest families in the country. Known for business cutting across the breadth and width of the country, the family’s wealth runs into billions of shillings. But in a bid to exactly ascertain what the family owns, sources indicate that about 40 auditors have been over the last 18 […]
January 19, 2011
Barclays Bank has reported that it will be sending home about 200 mid-level managers. read it here This comes only days after we reported that the planned operational review at Kenya Commercial Bank, which would see them too send packing most of its bloated work force. read it here The story by wire service, Reuters, […]
January 14, 2011
The country’s commercial banks are under attack from within. Thieving employees of the banks continue to pinch millions of shillings everyday from account holders with only few cases being reported. In a front-page story carried by the Daily Nation on Friday, the figure is estimated at almost half a billion shillings every month. However, these […]
January 13, 2011
Simply put, this is a failed promise. The Digital Villages concept is fast approaching a dead-end, if it has already not hit one. And unless there is a serious re-think to the concept so that a new strategy is employed, this once promising idea may not be saved from its eminent deathbed. The mainstream media […]
January 12, 2011
Employees of Kenya Commercial Bank now risk facing the sack after the bank brought in consultants to review its operations and make recommendations. The story appearing in a section of the newspapers indicated that the bank had appointed McKinsey and Company, who will be engaged with it for the next five months. But more telling […]
January 11, 2011
Behind the flamboyance and fiery arrogance in the person of Central Organisation of Trade Union (Cotu) Secretary General Francis Atwoli, coils a worried man. Mr Atwoli is a man under siege and he could be hanging in his current position by the grace of the judicial system that he has in some instances attacked scathingly. […]
January 10, 2011
The success of Kenya Premier League 2010 season is –to a large extent -attributed to the resurgence of Gor Mahia Football Club. The team whose supporters have aptly maintained that they are followers and not fans raked in Sh200 million in what is known as Advertising Value Equivalent in local media between March and November […]
January 7, 2011
Line managers at Safaricom House finally have a voice of their own. But this is subject to keeping it in line with the company’s objectives and vision. New head honcho Bob Collymore has given them a free hand to talk on behalf of the company, a thing that was unheard of during the tenure of […]
January 6, 2011
The coming of Bharti Airtel to Africa is highly hyped to change the landscape of the field of Public Relations in Kenya. Under the charges of Ogilvy Africa, the Indian firm has based its regional headquarters in Nairobi. It is reported that by this decision, its PR managers had to follow suit and move their […]
January 5, 2011
Barely a month after the Kenyan government introduced a retail price ceiling for petroleum products, new reviews are set to beat the aim of the action. The Energy Regulatory Commission has already indicated that new reviews expected on January 15 might be higher than current pricing. The news reported by the Radio Africa Group (Kiss […]
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