Cottar’s Safari Service, an award-winning luxury safari camp located in Kenya’s Maasai Mara, hosted its centennial anniversary celebration on Thursday honoring the legacy of the African safari. Cottar’s Safari Services was one of the first to launch safaris in Africa, the first to import American safari vehicles to Kenya, and the first to launch photographic safaris in the 1960s in Kenya. Leading the celebration of the camp’s first 100 years at an event attended by more than 200 dignitaries in Nairobi, Najib Balala, Cabinet Secretary for Tourism, cited Cottar’s as a leader in the development of the kind of exceptional…
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Copia Kenya, a Nairobi-based consumer goods catalogue and delivery service, has launched its e-commerce website that provides consumers greater choice, affordability, and convenience when shopping for everyday items. The logistics firm also unveiled a Ksh 2 billion international standard, grade-A logistics and distribution hub at Tatu City Industrial Park. The 4,000 sq m modern facility helps streamline the fulfillment of customer orders and will help facilitate Copia’s expansion into Western Kenya and other parts of the country. “Copia’s rapid growth in just five years shows the demand that exists among Kenyans in both rural and urban areas for digitally-powered solutions…
The Coca-Cola System in Kenya is now rewarding loyal consumers with a three day trip to the ‘Supa Dupa Fly’ music festival in Santorini, Greece. Over 6.8 million consumers stand a chance to win mobile phones, home theatres and exclusive Coke Studio merchandise over the 12-week consumer promotion period dubbed ‘Dunda Majuu na Coke Studio’. Supa Dupa Fly is a one of a kind annual summer music festival at the Greek Island. Due to its beautiful location and wonderful music from international Deejays. Coca-Cola Head of Portfolio and East Markets, Nelly Wainaina, said for them is to consistently reach out…
The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), a government parastatal whose responsibility is to assure the quality of agricultural inputs, has failed to secure title deeds for 11 parcels of land. Esther Kimani, the KEPHIS MD on Wednesday told Parliament’s Public Investments Committee that “We don’t have have any document on the land that we own. We also don’t have any letter of allotment. But we are processing titles, but the recovery of the encroached land has been a challenge.” According to the National Land Commission, 48 private developers and grabbers have been allocated leases. In 2012, the Kenya Plant…
2023 marks 35 years after the demise of a former student leader of the University of Nairobi, Titus Adungosi. However, all this time, his family, relatives, friends, clan, and the whole nation at large have never been told exactly what transpired and happened and caused the death of Titus Adungosi while under Kenyan prison care. The late Titus Adungosi was born in 1956 as the fifth child in a family of eight children, although later his father married two more wives and had twelve more children, bringing the total number of children to 20. Adungosi`s father, the late Mzee Longinus…
Horticultural farmers in Kenya stand to benefit from pest control NEMguard, a global player in crop protection, manufactured in the UK aimed at increasing production through sustainable management of plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs). NEMguard® SC is lethal to plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs), but has been classified as having no harmful effects on humans, animals, or the environment, which means it does not appear on the MRL (Maximum Residue Limit) list regulating ingredients growers can use on exported crops. According to Barnaba Rotich, Head of Commercial at Dudutech, “By registering NEMguard® SC in Kenya, Dudutech has allowed farmers to strategically harness its…