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The African Telecommunication Union is now receiving applications from ICT innovators for this year’s continental competition. Now in its second edition, the ATU Africa Innovation Challenge seeks to support solutions that will boost innovations that address the continent’s challenges. Mr John Omo, secretary general of the ATU said, “this initiative will be instrumental in supporting institutional solutions that will boost innovation...

Citizens and businesses within Trans-Nzoia County will now go cashless as the devolved unit seeks to boost service delivery and revenue collections. From parking, to cess and market fees among other levies, all payments will now be run on M-PESA after the devolved unit partnered with telco giant Safaricom to roll out a new payment system. To pay for the county...

You will now be paying for your parking fees, trade licenses as well as other fees in Nairobi City County through a new revenue system which is under a firm grip of the taxman. For businesses and individuals to access services of Nairobi Revenue System (NRS), customers are required to set up an account on the portal nairobiservices.go.ke; downloading the Nairobi e-Services mobile app...

Residents in 13 counties across western Kenya will be subjected to tighter Covid-19 containment measures for the next 30 days from today as the region continues posting the highest number of positive cases. For the past two weeks, the counties of Kisumu, Siaya, Busia, Vihiga, Nyamira, Bomet, Trans Nzoia, Migori, Kericho, Kakamega, Homa Bay, Kisii and Bungoma have been new virus hotspots, accounting for...

From trials conducted across the US and Mexico, a small America firm Novavax reports that its vaccine was highly effective against the coronavirus and also protected against variants in a large. Results show that the vaccine is about 90 per cent effective with preliminary data indicating it is safe for use. Novavax’s trials involved about 30,000 people who are 18 years...

The World Bank and the African Union has struck a deal to speed up COVID-19 vaccine roll out for about 400 million people across the continent with a target to inoculate at least 60 per cent of the population by next year. The two partners would provide the needed resources to the Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team initiative, allowing countries to buy and administer...