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Martin K.N Siele is the Content Lead at Business Today. He is also a Quartz contributor and a 2021 Baraza Media Lab-Fringe Graph Data Storytelling Fellow. Passionate about digital media, sports and entertainment, Siele also founded Loud.co.ke

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A person using multiple smart phones at the same time. The cost of transactions on mobile money services such as M-Pesa has many Kenyans looking for cheaper ways to send money and make payments.
BUSINESSECONOMYFEATURED ARTICLEMARKETSTECHNOLOGY

Avoiding M-Pesa Charges, Kenyans Exploit CBK Directive to Enjoy Free Transfers, Payments

As the zero-rated transaction period lapsed on January 1, Safaricom cut low value M-Pesa transaction fees by up to 45 per cent in...

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A man holding up Kenyan bank notes. The government is considering introducing a Wealth Tax to shore up revenues.
BUSINESSECONOMYFEATURED ARTICLEMARKETS

Wealth Tax: Govt Plans Surprise for Kenya’s Super-Rich & High-Income Earners

The move notably comes amid a global conversation on imposing higher taxes on the rich - with a growing movement piling pressure on...

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Goods are offloaded from a Sokowatch electric tuk tuk at a shop in Uganda. The firm has prioritized innovation in a shifting business and technology landscape.
SMART BUSINESSTECHNOLOGY

Sokowatch: Innovating to Support Shop-Owners Amid Pandemic, Digital Service Tax

Sokowatch allows informal retailers to stock up their stores by ordering products via SMS, voice call, or mobile app with free same-day delivery,...

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Homeboyz Entertainment Managing Director Mike Rabar. The firm on March 9, 2021 issued a profit warning for the financial year ended December 31, 2020. (Photo: Business Daily)
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Homeboyz Issues Profit Warning 3 Months After NSE Listing

The firm which has interests in events, audio-visual production, sports and youth marketing saw its event division, in particular, take a hit during...

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Lancet Kenya CEO Ahmed Kelebi. He is seeking Ksh1.9 billion in a separation agreement with the multi-national.
LEADERSHIP

Lancet CEO Kalebi Wants Ksh2 Billion to Walk Away from Firm He Built

In 2009, Kelebi was instrumental in founding Lancet Kenya, an off-shoot of its South African parent company. It operated under Pathologist Lancet Kenya...

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

Kenya needs to consider the welfare of sex workers even as it rolls out Covid-19 vaccination in hospitals across the country. Not only...

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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

Kamiti, for instance, sits on a 1,200 acre land parcel in Kiambu with most of it undeveloped. According to the Hass Land Index...

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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

The legal battle played out barely a month after Mobius launched its new Ksh330 million production facility in Nairobi - at  a ceremony...

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