Year: 2021

2133 Articles
Kenyans Investing in the USA real estate market
REAL ESTATE

Kenyans Investing in Real Estate in The USA

Often, Kenyans in the USA typically invest their earnings back home. However, there is a new trend where a growing number of Kenyans...

PEOPLE

Top 10 Most Influential Women In Kenya – 2021

March 8 is International Women’s Day. This article is part of a week-long series from Business Today celebrating African women and highlighting their challenges...

Affordable plots in Nairobi and Ruai
REAL ESTATE

How Real Estate Firms Are Readjusting Post Covid-19

As soon as the novel coronavirus disease struck in early 2020, reality checked in and everything changed, but not for good. Each and...

Sex workers pictured in Nairobi. Commercial sex workers are calling on the government to include them in the first phase of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in Kenya.
BT memoFEATURED ARTICLEOPINION

Covid-19 Vaccine: Why Kenya’s Sex Workers Should be First in Line

UNAIDS data indicates that there are more than 136,000 commercial sex workers in Kenya. Nairobi alone has over 20,000. Over the past year,...

IBM has collaborated with more than 65 ecosystem partners to build secure cloud services helping clients run workloads in any environment via IBM Cloud Satellite.
BUSINESSECONOMYTECHNOLOGY

IBM Cloud Satellite Makes Services Available for Any Environment

IBM has announced that its hybrid cloud services are now generally available in any environment - on any cloud, on premises or at...

A gate at the Lang'ata Women's Prison. Interior CS has proposed that prisons in Nairobi be moved to other towns.
CITY DIARYECONOMYREAL ESTATE

Free Up Prime Land by Moving Prisons Out of Nairobi – Matiang’i

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i has proposed the moving of key prisons in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area out of the city - including...

BUSINESSCITY DIARY

6,000 Nairobi Bars, Restaurants to Receive Covid-19 Safety Training

Six thousand bars and eateries in the Nairobi Metropolitan region are set to receive training on COVID-19 safety protocols by June this year...

Team members look on as a Mobius II rolls off the ramp at the firm’s new factory in Narobi during a launch ceremony in January 2021. The firm secured court protection after KRA slapped it with a Ksh73 million tax bill.
BUSINESSECONOMYMARKETS

KRA Tax Bill Threatens to Kill Mobius Motors’ African Dream

Mobius Motors, the Kenyan car manufacturer famous for its made in Africa, for Africa SUVs, sought court protection as tax demands from the Kenya...

BUSINESSECONOMYMARKETS

CitiBank Announces Ksh300 Million Facility for 25,000 Women-Owned Businesses

On Friday 6th April 2021, CitiBank announced the Supply Chain Finance Programme supporting women-owned Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in partnership with 4G...

A Stanbic Bank branch in Kenya.
BUSINESSECONOMYMARKETS

Stanbic Braves Covid-19 Storm to Record Ksh5.2B Profit for 2020

Stanbic Holdings Plc braved a difficult operating environment in 2020 to record a profit after tax of Ksh5.2 billion, down from Ksh6.4 billion...