Laikipia County has licensed over 75 hotels, eateries and food outlets, most of them in Nanyuki, to reopen for business after meeting the laid down requirements regarding Covid-19, following the President’s directives that ended the cessation of movement in and out of Nairobi and Mombasa. Laikipia County relies heavily on tourism, both domestic and local,…Read More→

Expectations are high in towns transversed by the Nairobi-Nanyuki line. Residents herald the second coming of the railway as a major game-changer in their local economies. Last Friday, Governors from the Central Kenya economic block visited different sites to monitor the ongoing works. Speaking at a function in Kiganjo, the governors – Francis Kimemia, Mutahi…Read More→

Rehabilitation of the 240-kilometer old meter-gauge railway from Nairobi to Nanyuki has started, in a move expected to ease the cost of transport of goods in the Mt. Kenya region and lead to the revival of the now nearly dead former ‘Railway Towns’ in the region. Read: Top 5 infrastructure projects and their bearing on…Read More→

There is this video that has gone viral, where a student at the Mpesa Academy asks President Uhuru Kenyatta what he thinks his legacy will be. Almost dazed by the weight of the question, the President pauses, and in a pensive rejoinder, he responds, “wow!” While many would have thought that his response was to…Read More→

Steel magnate Narendra Raval, through his Devki group, officially took over cash-strapped Athi River Mining Cement (ARM) after a gruelling legal battle. The acquisition will propel Mr Raval to be a top cement producer in the region when the production capacities of National Cement, owned by his Devki Group, and ARM are combined. The transfer…Read More→

A travel advisory that banned UK nationals from travelling to Nanyuki, Meru and Narok has been lifted. The travel ban had previously asked her citizens to be weary as of terrorists. Despite the ban being lifted, the UK government has asked Citizens traveling through Nairobi and the Coastal areas to take precautionary measures as those…Read More→

30 years and still counting, the Kenya National Examinations Council’s (KNEC)  Mitihani House in Nairobi’s South C has is still under construction. Many observers are still puzzled at this building that was meant to house KNEC that has now been dubbed Kenya’s oldest construction site. The building  g has gone through many contractors, the most…Read More→

CIC Insurance is selling 712 acres of freehold land in Kajiado and Kiambu counties in transactions that are expected to earn it upwards of Sh10 billion. The disposals come as the Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed firm prepares to redeem its Sh5 billion bond on October 2. CIC has carried the land holdings at cost, meaning that…Read More→

Nanyuki is one of the towns set to benefit from the construction of the much awaited Kenol-Isiolo dual carriageway which starts next month. The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has said that this project is meant to ease transportation and trade in the Northern Corridor. KeNHA Director-General, Peter Mundinia confirmed these reports gave an order…Read More→