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The initiative as explained by Kevin Mathews Okeyo, Senior Manager, Digital Experience (Digital Financial Services) at KCB is part of the bank’s ongoing efforts to digitize operations, simplify banking, and provide convenient access to financial services anywhere in the world.
In a notice published in the Kenya Gazette, the authority said importers and consignees with overstayed cargo must enter and remove their goods from the depot within 30 days. If they fail to do so, the items will be auctioned between November 10 and 14, 2025, through an online bidding process on KRA’s official portal.
Mbadi said the proactive move aims to manage upcoming Eurobond maturities and prevent debt distress.
This fresh demand from the tax authority adds to the growing list of problems facing NG-CDF, which is scheduled to be wound up by June 30, 2026, following a court ruling that declared the fund unconstitutional.
The electronic system was first introduced at the regional level in November 2024 by Eswatini, Malawi and Zambia as pilot countries. Zimbabwe and Kenya have now joined the programme, bringing the number of participating member states to 21, while other countries are in the process of integrating the system.
The PS in a statement issued on October 2, 2025, said the development follows consultations between the Republic of Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
“Memories” over the past eight years. The Memories feature is one of Snapchat’s most popular tools, enabling users to keep their past snaps within the app rather than losing them to its disappearing-message format.
Fresh data from the central bank shows that DIB Bank Kenya, Consolidated Bank of Kenya, Co-operative Bank of Kenya, Kingdom Bank, UBA Kenya Bank, Diamond Trust Bank Kenya, Premier Bank Kenya, and Access Bank Kenya have all raised their overall weighted average lending rates in the year to August.
The development was unveiled by a team at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, who trained the tool to find structural brain abnormalities that are often missed on standard Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans.
The rise, announced on Monday, September 29, 2025, highlights increasing pressure on household budgets, particularly from food price hikes.
Kinyanjui noted that Kenya’s competitive edge lies not only in its relatively low tariffs but also in its youthful workforce, wide trade agreements, and nearly 93% renewable energy mix.
Appearing before the National Assembly Committee on Public Debt and Privatization, Kenya Airways chief executive officer Allan Kilavuka gave a detailed account of how the 2012 expansion plan aimed at transforming the airline into Africa’s leading carrier by 2021 turned into one of the country’s most costly corporate failures.