Kenyan taxpayers will now enjoy an online dispute resolution services from the tax man following the launch of the ADR
To safeguard taxpayers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has established measures to support taxpayer access to all essential services online.
Fresh data from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) shows that lending rates averaged 12.19 percent in February, the lowest since January 2005 when it stood at 12.12 percent during the reign of former governor Andrew Mullei.
Kenya in November scrapped the cap on commercial lending rates, which had been blamed for stalling lending to small businesses and individuals. The removal of the legal cap led to fears of a likely to return to the era of high lending rates, which had at one point hit a high of up to 25 percent.
Marking its 50th anniversary, University of Nairobi’s school of law has joined the prestigious Global Campus of Human Rights.
The Africa Union (AU) has appointed 3 University of Nairobi dons to its Science Technology and Innovations (STI) for Covid-19 interventions .The three are Professor Francis Mulaa, Prof. Ratemo Michieka and Prof Dimbson Bulimo.
For a few years now, Dr. Collins Odote has been using digital technologies to teach and supervise his postgraduate students.
The Corona Virus pandemic is a global phenomenon that has affected all sectors in every country in the world including higher education. Universities and colleges were forced to abruptly close and ongoing teaching of various courses was abandoned midstream. As a result, managers of universities and colleges with thousands of stranded students have been left wondering how to fill the gap and at the very least maintain some semblance of normality.
Barely a week after Kenya approved Google’s Loon Internet Project, the first two balloons have arrived in the country’s airspace, in Ngomeni.
The balloons, dubbed HBA092 and HBAL125, will be joined by two others, expected to arrive in through Somalia from Seychelles.READ MORE..
The e-AIE platform reduces the number of approval steps previously between 12-13, down to 5.
In addition, without the need to move paper from one office to another, the entire approval process can be completed in 48 hours (assuming all the paperwork is in order).
Safaricom share has gained more than Sh160 billion in valuation in the last five trading sessions to lift the Nairobi bourse from a 17-year low caused by the coronavirus pandemic that has triggered a sell-off by foreign investors.
The share was trading at 28.60 on Friday, up 16.7 percent from Sh24.50 on Wednesday, March 25, when the market was at its low point. It had closed Thursday at Sh28.25 a share.
