Author: Francis Muli

Bitcoin scammers on Wednesday night took control of Us prominent personalities’ verified Twitter accounts, posting Covid-19 ‘charity’ messages to scam followers. Among the people whose accounts were compromised include Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Uber Technologies Inc., Apple Inc. and Michael Bloomberg. The message posted promised followers double the money they send to the address provided within 30 minutes. According to TrendsMap.com, the phrase “I am giving back to my community due to COVID-19” was tweeted 3,330 times in a span of four hours. Addressing the issue, Twitter said it was…

Mr Ceda Ogada from Kenya has been named as the Secretary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Director of the Secretary’s Department. The appointment was announced by Ms Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of IMF on Wednesday. Mr Ogada succeeds Mr Jianhai Lin, whose retirement was announced recently. “Ceda has outstanding institutional knowledge, strategic and intellectual heft, and people leadership. His unparalleled ability to bring people together, combined with his profound appreciation of the Fund’s institutional history and legal principles, as well as strong service orientation, will help the Fund to even more effectively serve our member countries in…

South Korea has imposed a fine worth about Sh17 million on video-sharing app TikTok. The Korea Communications Authority (KCC) fined the company over allegations of mishandling children’s data amid growing concerns regarding users’ privacy. According to KCC, TikTok collected users’ data from children under 14 years of age without consent from their guardians. The sensational social media platform responded that it was “deeply committed” to meeting the requirements of the law. The investigation which started last year revealed that the app had collected more than 6,000 records involving children for over six months, contrary to the local privacy laws. The…

The New Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) has stopped supplying milk to the Tuskys Supermarkets following non payment of debts running into millions of shillings. The new KCC disclosed that the retailer had accrued high debts prompting the supplier to suspend dealings with them. They said that they would not be supplying any types of milk to the Supermarket Chain. This comes after Tuskys exceeded its 60 days credit period without issuing any payments to the supplier. The Supermaket has been delaying payments to suppliers, citing low business brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic prompting intervention from the Competitions Authority of…

The Kenyan skies roared with life this morning as domestic flights resumed operations to a number of destinations within the country. The airlines briefed eager travellers on the new protocols in place as the country continues to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. A quick check with some airlines revealed their itinerary for flights across the country starting today. Safarilink took its first flight to Lodwar this morning with plans to fly to Diani beach, Vipingo and Lamu Island today. Fly 540 itinerary consists of flights to Mombasa twice a week, daily flights to Malindi, Lamu, Eldoret, Lodwar and Kisumu six times…

MTN Uganda is required to list at least 20 percent of its shares on the country’s stock exchange within the next two years. This was one of the conditions given to the South Africa telecommunications company for renewal of their permit  in Uganda for 12 years effective July 1. The Uganda Communications Commission(UCC) said that when a company gets a National operator licence, they will be required to list at least 20 percent of its shares on the stock market. According to UCC Public Relations Officer Ibrahim Bbosa, the listing must be effected within two years of the date of…

Huawei generated CNY454 billion (approximately Ksh7 trillion) in revenue for the first six months of 2020, a 13.1 percent increase year-on-year, with a net profit margin of 9.2 percent. Huawei’s carrier, enterprise, and consumer businesses achieved CNY159.6 billion (Ksh2.5 trillion), CNY36.3 billion (Ksh556 trillion), and CNY255.8 billion (Ksh4 trillion) in revenue, respectively. The financial data disclosed are unaudited figures compiled in compliance with the International Financial Reporting Standards, Huawei said. “As countries around the globe are grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, information and communications technologies (ICT) have become not only a crucial tool for combating the virus, but also an…

Athi Ward Representative Peter Kilonzo alias Tangawizi has postponed the motion to impeach Kitui governor Charity Ngilu that was set to be tabled tomorrow, July 15. In a letter to Ms Ngilu, the Kitui County Assembly speaker George Ndoto did not state the reasons behind the postponement of the motion in the last minute, but only cited “unavoidable circumstances”. “This is to inform you that due to unavoidable circumstances, the motion mover has called off the tabling of the motion referred to in my letter under reference. The same was due for tabling on the floor of the house on…

The price of Super Petrol, Diesel and Kerosene will increase by KSh11.38, KSh17.30 and KSh2.98 per litre respectively as from July 15. Super Petrol will now retail at Ksh100.48 in Nairobi, Diesel at Ksh91.87 and Kerosene at Ksh65.45. In Mombasa, the prices will be relatively lower at Ksh98.11 for Super Petrol, Ksh89.50 for Diesel and Ksh63.09 for Kerosene. This is according to new prices announced by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA), which has announced a new levy on fuel. “The prices are inclusive of the revised rates for Petroleum Development Levy on Super Petrol and Diesel as per…

The United Kingdom has officially banned Huawei from its 5G telecom network. This is a reversal from its original decision in January this year to allow Huawei a limited role in building the country’s 5G network. U.K’s Digital Secretary told the House of Commons the decision, which was arrived at following sanctions imposed on Huawei by the U.S. with claims that the Chinese firm poses a threat to National Security. The new move will delay U.K’s 5G rollout by a year as the country hopes to have removed all the Huawei Kits by 2027. “This has not been an easy…

Kenya has deployed the use of technology in the fight against the locust menace. A team of locust scouts trained by local aid group, ACTED, with the help of United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) working with the Turkana County Regional Government are using an application dubbed E-locust to spot and report sightings of the locusts. The information is sent in real-time to a database in Lodwar, Turkana’s main town, and is then used by the team deployed to spray the insects with pesticides in efforts to hinder formation of bigger swarms. Christopher Achilo is one of the scouts…

A plane belonging to Bluebird Aviation company has crash-landed in Beletwein, Somalia. Reports reaching Kahawa Tungu indicate that all the three crew members who were aboard the plane are safe. It is not yet clear what caused the accident of the Dash 8-400 PF plane manufactured in Canada. The plane is registered under registration number 5Y-VVU. https://youtu.be/9TDP92zqj8Q Email your news TIPS to Editor@kahawatungu.com or WhatsApp +254707482874. You can also find us on Telegram through www.t.me/kahawatungu

Parkland MCA Jayendra Malde says that anti-graft agencies have been ignoring his complaints over grabbed Ksh2 billion land that was meant for construction of a health facility. In a Facebook post on July 10, Malde said that he was contemplating on resigning, after he all efforts to reclaim the land bore no fruits, even as the grabber continued constructing a residential apartment on the land. “I am ready to resign as the MCA of Parklands Highridge ward. I have fought for the Highridge clinic every single day and yet construction is going on,” he wrote. In letters seen by Kahawa…

SnapChat is making more changes that could see it challenge TikTok more directly. The social media app is testing a new experience that will allow users move through content by a swipe. The gesture is already popular on TikTok, where users can navigate through videos by a vertical swiping motion. The test feature will only target content posted publicly on SnapChat discover and not on people’s private stories. However, since stories can have multiple parts, users will still need to tap to advance through, as before. In the new experiment, a horizontal swiping motion to the left or right will…

On June 7, 2013, a four-month pregnant woman, Ms Irene Ager Awuor was driven to a city hospital while bleeding, after being directed there by her alleged boyfriend. The alleged boyfriend was Mr Kituku Kinyae, husband to Dr Doreen Lugaliki, who recently died of Covid-19. On the fateful night, Ms Ager said she was chatting to her Ugandan boyfriend, Mr Eric Pepah, who worked for Mr Kinyae. She said Mr Pepah was using Kinyae’s phone. Ms Ager says they chatted with her boyfriend the whole day till 9pm, when Mr Kinyae took his phone. Unfortunately at around 11pm, she started…