Southern Engineering Company engineers watch as the first Kenyan built barge Alpha 2500 is towed into the ocean from the dry dock in Mombasa.[File, Standard] Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu has identified a series of irregular expenses, unexplained loans, and blatant disregard of the law by Kenya National Shipping Line’s (KNSL) management. She reveals that the firm also received funds from the Exchequer despite the 2018 changes in shareholding structure that greatly reduced Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) equity ownership in it. The latest report by the Auditor-General shows that in the 2023-24 financial year, the National Treasury pumped a Sh118 million grant…
Author: By Marion Kithi
Nancy Njau, Chief executive officer Family Bank Limited, making her remarks on May 21, 2025 at Radisson Blu Hotel in Upper Hill Nairobi. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard] Family Bank has opened a branch in Kilifi County, taking the number of its outlets across the country to 96 in an expansion plan targeting micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Speaking during the opening, the bank’s Chief Executive Officer, Nancy Njau, said the bank has over 1.2 million customers, 6,000 bank agents, and 75,000 merchants nationwide. As of December 2024, the lender had total assets of Sh168.5 billion and a deposit base of…
An underage boy drives home flock he was attending to from a rubbish collection zone in Mbita town(File/ Standard) A parliamentary committee has raised concern over the increasing number of underage children hired as herders in parts of Kilifi County. The National Assembly Departmental Committee on Cohesion and Equal Opportunities said children aged between 12 and 15 are deprived of education after they are hired as herders. Mandera West MP Adan Yussuf Haji, committee chairman, said that many young boys employed as herders in Kilifi migrate from Tana River, Lamu, Mandera, and Garissa counties. “The days when children were used…
A 15-year-old boy, arrested for allegedly assaulting his 16-year-old girlfriend, died by suicide in Bamba Police Station cells on Sunday evening. Police arrested Crispus Baraka, a Form Two student at Godoma Boys High School in Ganze, on Friday after his girlfriend’s parents filed a complaint against him. Ganze sub-county police commander Paul Yator said they arrested Baraka after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend in the nose and broke her left arm. The police boss, however, disputed the deceased’s age, saying that he was 18 years old and not a minor. “On Sunday evening, the boy went to clean the bathroom…
A 15-year-old boy, arrested for allegedly assaulting his 16-year-old girlfriend, died by suicide in Bamba Police Station cells on Sunday evening. Police arrested Crispus Baraka, a Form Two student at Godoma Boys High School in Ganze, on Friday after his girlfriend’s parents filed a complaint against him. Ganze sub-county police commander Paul Yator said they arrested Baraka after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend in the nose and broke her left arm. The police boss, however, disputed the deceased’s age, saying that he was 18 years old and not a minor. “On Sunday evening, the boy went to clean the bathroom…
Labour and Skills Development Principal Secretary Shadrack Mwadime during the launch of 483 trade testing series at Dzitsoni Vocational Training centre in Kilifi county on 10, April 2025. [Marion Kithi, Standard] The government has launched 483 trade testing centres to examine the competence of 21,582 candidates in the Technical Vocational Training and Education across the country. Labour and Skills Development Principal Secretary Shadrack Mwadime said the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) will assess the candidates. Mwadime said that the trade testing series would determine the level of competence of the students for certification and entry into employment. The PS said the testing series is 90 percent practical…