Installing Microsoft Office across multiple systems has traditionally been a time-consuming task. Manual set-ups are not only time consuming but they also have room to come up with inconsistencies, error and obsolete settings. The office deployment tool solves this challenge by allowing IT administrators to customize and automate the entire process using simple configuration files. The strength of the office deployment tool lies in its flexibility. Administrators can define which Office applications are included (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint), which languages are installed, where files are saved, and how updates are managed. Installations can be silent, meaning they run in…
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A Cabinet meeting at State House, Nairobi,on Tuesday endorsed the Quality Healthcare and Patient Safety Bill, 2025, which seeks to transform the health sector by eliminating entrenched impunity and malpractices. The Bill seeks to eliminate systemic fraud, regulatory loopholes, and conflicts of interest that have long undermined healthcare delivery and public trust. It responds to glaring gaps that have allowed unqualified and fraudulent health facilities to be licensed and to operate. This lack of clear standards, coupled with weak oversight and collusion among facilities, regulators, and practitioners, has left patients vulnerable and eroded accountability. Cabinet noted that the many failures…
The Cabinet approved recommendations from the Presidential Taskforce on Religious Organisations, a landmark move to safeguard the integrity of religious practice while curbing exploitation. The proposed reforms, developed in response to the Shakahola tragedy, place religious leaders at the centre of accountability efforts, emphasising self-regulation over State control. President Ruto chaired the meeting at State House in Nairobi. Key proposals include enacting a legal framework to govern religious organisations, establishing a Religious Affairs Commission, and strengthening umbrella faith organisations for coordination. The model blends institutional autonomy with supportive oversight and calls for leadership standards, reforms to religious broadcasting, and civic…
India has said its security forces killed three militants who shot dead 26 civilians near a tourist town in Indian-administered Kashmir in April, triggering a brief military conflict with Pakistan. Home Minister Amit Shah told parliament the men had been killed by Indian forces near the disputed region’s main city Srinagar on Monday. He claimed the attackers were Pakistani nationals, a charge Islamabad denies. The men’s identity was confirmed through forensic and ballistic tests, Shah told MPs. Pakistan has not commented on the claims, which have not been independently confirmed and come amid mounting criticism of India’s government for alleged…
A gunman who killed four people when he stormed a skyscraper in the heart of New York on Monday evening left a note that appeared to blame the National Football League (NFL) for a brain injury, the city’s Mayor Eric Adams has said. The attacker, 27-year-old Shane Tamura of Las Vegas, shot himself dead after opening fire in a building where the American football league has its headquarters, but went to a different part of the building after taking the wrong lift. The gunman was carrying a note in which he blamed CTE, a brain disease triggered by head trauma,…
University of Coloradofootball coach Deion Sanders announced Monday that he had undergone surgery to remove his bladder after doctors discovered a tumor there. Sanders said, since the surgery, there are no traces of cancer, and he will continue to coach this season. In a packed Touchdown Club in the Dal Ward Athletic Center, Sanders appeared with Dr. Janet Kukreja, director of urological oncology at University of Colorado Cancer Center, and answered some of the questions that have swirled around him throughout the offseason. “It was dynamic. It was tough. It wasn’t a cakewalk. It wasn’t easy,” said Sanders, who added…
Two suspects were Monday evening shot and killed by police in a botched robbery in Mathare slums, Nairobi. The two had taken advantage of a clash that was ongoing along Outer Ring Road for the better of the afternoon to attack and rob from pedestrians along Juja Road. Police said they recovered a knife from the slain men. Another accomplice managed to escape, police said. According to the police, the men had been attacking and robbing pedestrians and had subdued one man as he walked from a mosque and started to rob him of his valuables and cash in the…
Two young witnesses took the stand Monday in the ongoing manslaughter case against controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie and 94 co-accused. The first witness, a 16-year-old identified in court only as SBB for protection, described before Chief Magistrate Alex Ithuku how his life was turned upside down after his mother withdrew him from school after receiving teachings against education after watching Times TV. He told the court how her mother sold household items to finance their travel to Malindi and then to Shakahola forest, also referred to by the followers as “Jangwani” (the wilderness). On their way to Shakahola, they were…
A young metro Atlanta inventor, who previously made headlines for his unique solution to turn waste into fuel, has been missing for two weeks, according to social media posts. Julian Brown, in his 20s, recently went viral for his invention – ‘Plastoline’ – which converts old plastics into usable fuels like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. No major outlets have reported on or confirmed Brown’s alleged disappearance. However, netizens believe he may have been targeted for his invention as he shared a few concerning social media posts before going missing. His final post read, “Something is happening keep me in…
Samsung Electronics has entered into a $16.5 billion contract for supplying semiconductors to Tesla, based on a regulatory filing by the South Korean firm and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s posts on X. The memory chipmaker, which had not named the counterparty, mentioned in its filing that the effective start date of the contract was July 26, 2025 — receipt of orders — and its end date was Dec. 31, 2033. However, Musk later confirmed in a reply to a post on social media platform X that Tesla was the counterparty. He also posted: “Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be…
Virtual private network (VPN) apps have become the most downloaded on Apple’s App Store in the UK after sites such as PornHub, Reddit and X began requiring age verification of users on Friday. VPNs can disguise your location online – allowing you to use the internet as though you are in another country. It means that people are likely using them to bypass requirements of the Online Safety Act, which mandated platforms with certain adult content to start checking the age of users. As of Monday morning, half of the top ten free apps in Apple’s app download charts in…
Kidnappers in Nigeria have killed at least 38 people they abducted from a village in northern Zamfara state despite ransoms being paid for their release, a local official told the BBC. In recent years, criminal gangs in the region, known in the country as bandits, have taken to kidnapping people as a means to raise money. In this incident, 56 people were taken from Banga village, Kauran Namoda local government area in March. The gunmen then demanded a ransom of one million naira ($655; £485) per captive, media in Nigeria report. Local government chairman Manniru Haidara Kaura said that most…
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Officials have protested after a senior ministry of interior and national administration official who has been holding two public jobs concurrently was moved in changes at the immigration department. This is despite there being a court order stopping any such movement. John Njuguna Burugu, who was the Commissioner for Refugee Affairs, was last Tuesday asked to hand over immediately and return to his other office. Barugu had been appointed by former President Uhuru Kenyatta as a member of the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC) on June 19, 2020. However, in March 2023, the then Interior Cabinet Secretary Prof Kithure Kindiki,…
Ghanaians are mourning one of the country’s best known singers, Charles Kojo Fosu, known as Daddy Lumba, who has died aged 60. A statement from the family of the legendary highlife artist said he died in hospital on Saturday after a short illness. Daddy Lumba, whose musical career spanned almost four decades, “was a cultural icon and his music touched countless lives”, the statement said. Kofi Okyere-Darko, director of diaspora affairs at the office of the president, described Daddy Lumba as “the greatest from Ghana in the last 100 years”. Daddy Lumba inspired many young Ghanaian musicians to pursue highlife…