The Safaricom Choir & the Youth Orchestra Public Premier

Date: Sunday, October 12, 2014
Venue: Safaricom Indoor Arena – Kasarani
Charges: Adults Ksh500 and Children Ksh100

UON Wins Kenya Intervarsity Debate Championship 2013

The University of Nairobi, Parklands Campus are the winners of the second Kenya Inter-varsity Debate Championship 2013.

The UoN team consisting of Bonbegi Gesicho and Eugene Kubali saw off stiff competition from Strathmore University's Edel Were and Willis Mwenda, the reigning 2012 champions.

Kenyan Budget 2013/2014

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich has just unveiled the national budget for the year 2013/2014 at Parliament.

The total expenditure amounts to Sh1,640.9 billion while the gross development expenditures is estimated at Sh447.9 billion.

The total revenue estimates for fiscal year 2013/14 stands at Sh1,027.2 billion, comprising of Sh961.3 billion of ordinary revenue, and Sh 67.0 billion of appropriations-in aid.

The total revenue estimate represents an increase of 7.5 percent over the Budget Estimates for 2012/13.

Budgetary Allocations by Sectors

Education

Sh53.2 billion has been set aside for deployment of 1.35 million laptops to class one pupils, development of digital content, and building capacity of teachers and rolling out computer laboratory for class 4 to class 8 in all schools throughout the country. (Translates to Sh 17.4 billion each financial year starting from FY 2013/14)

Sh10.3 billion will go to free Primary Education.

Sh 2.6 billion for school feeding programme.

Sh 20.9 billion for free Day Secondary Education.

Community Rugby Association Gets 5mln Boost from Unilever Kenya

The Kenya Community Rugby Association (COMRAS) has received a 5million-shilling sponsorship from Unilever Kenya, aimed at development of the sport in Kenyan grassroots.

The sponsorship which is dished through its new variant 'Omo Extra Fresh' product will be channeled towards purchasing kits and training of young players from under privileged backgrounds aged between 9 and 16 years.

Wanyama is Clydesdale Bank Young Player of the Year

Kenyan international midfielder Victor Mugubi Wanyama has been named the Clydesdale Bank Young Player of the Year.

This is the second major award the midfielder who plays for Scottish Champions Celtic has bagged after the Celtic Young Player of the Year award in April.

88mph Opens Applications in Nairobi

08.05.2013, Nairobi, Kenya 88mph, an early stage startup fund and 3 month accelerator program has opened applications for Nairobi. The program assists start-ups by giving them investment of up to a 100k, access to business networks and the know how to quickly grow their businesses. 88mph’s strategy in Africa is to fund strong teams and web-mobile ideas that have the ability to scale across English speaking Africa.

“There’s an immense opportunity to build mobile/web start-ups in Nairobi right now. African Mobile/web is hands down one of the fastest growing markets in the world and we want to reach out to entrepreneurs who build products and services for hundreds of million mobile/web users that are rapidly popping up on the continent,” says 88mph Program Director Nikolai Barnwell.

Barnwell continues,“Unfortunately, the natural course of a startup is to die before succeeding. But we provide the funding and the infrastructure to boost the odds of survival and we now want to look for the next batch of future successful entrepreneurs.”

2013 Millennium Development Goals Awards Winners

Kenya Red Cross award for MDG1 for its contribution in Eradicating Extreme Poverty & Hunger

The 2013 Millennium Development Goals Awards took place yesterday evening at the Crowne Plaza - Upper hill.

Several individuals and institutions were recognized for their outstanding contributions in driving the achievement of the eight MDG goals through their core programmes.

The Kenya Red Cross was awarded the  MDG1 for its contribution in Eradicating Extreme Poverty & Hunger as well as the MDG3 for Reducing child mortality rates and MDG7 Ensuring Environmental Sustainability award.

MKU Student Wins Wangari Maathai Award

Google Search Doodle in commemoration of Wangari Maathai 73rd Birthday

Abigael Ndinda was awarded with the inaugural Wangari Maathai Scholarship Fund on Thursday morning at the Green Belt movement offices to commemorate Wangari Maathai Day.

The second year medicine student at Mount Kenya University (MKU) was presented with the Sh800,000 Environmental Innovations Fund Scholarship award by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Green Belt Movement and the Kenya Community Development Foundation for her tree-planting initiative. 

National Art Competition: 2013 MASK Art Prize

The 2013 MASK Art Prize annual national art competition in Kenya, is now open to

- any Kenyan school (state or private, polytechnics, colleges and universities), and

- any young person up to the age of 25 who lives in Kenya or is a member of the Kenya diaspora.

ENTER the artworks to win Prizes and exhibit at the Nairobi National Museum in June 2013 and the Saatchi Gallery in London in September 2013. 

Here are the prizes up for grabs:

The three best artists will be awarded a prize of Ksh55,000 each, and one of them – a trip to London.

One school, with the best and highest number of artworks entered, will be awarded a year’s supply of art materials worth Ksh100,000.

Kibiwott Munge: Teenager Wins County Assembly Seat

19-year-old Kibiwott Munge has made history in Kenya by clinching a country assembly seat. Munge who vied on a United Republican Party (URP) ticket, bagged the Lembus Perkera Ward in Baringo County, to become the youngest Kenyan to win a political seat in an election.

Richard Turere: The Inspirational 13 Year Old

Outsmarting Lions 

 A 13-year-old boy from Kitengela, Richard Turere presented his innovative solution that keeps Lions away from Humans and livestock to over a thousand people at the TED 2013 Summit in Long Beach, California.

Dubbed 'Lion Lights' the system is made out of LED bulbs, solar panel and a car battery. Turere has installed about 75 systems in neighbouring enclosures to combat the soaring human-wildlife conflict in which the Kenyan government spends over Sh70 million in compensation annually. 

Kenyans on Forbes' Africa 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs

Lorna Rutto, Founder EcoPost

Eight Kenyans have been named in the recently released Forbes 30 Under 30: Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs.

The eight including Evans Wadongo, Mark Kaigwa, Lorna Rutto, Joel Mwale, Cosmas Ochieng, Eric Muthomi, Kimiti Wanjaria & Ian Kahara have been said to be among the top young African entrepreneurs changing the face of the continent.

Housing Finance & Vision 2030 Launch 1 Million Artisans Programme

The Housing Finance Corporation in partnership with the Vision 2030 Delivery Board (VDB) on Friday launched the Army of 1 Million Artisans programme that is geared towards training 1 million building and construction artisans in the country by 2016.

Speaking during the ceremony, vision 2030 delivery Director General Mugo Kibati noted that they will work with the mortgage lender in capacity building, benchmarking, technology and knowledge transfer through technical and vocational education and training programmes inline vision 2030.

Tuko Rada Peace Festival at KICC Courtyard

Think Big Start Small Act Now

National Youth Bunge Association (NYBA) the Kenyan leading youth network of County forums which represents the Village Youth Bunges at the National level will hold the biggest peace festival of the election year dubbed “Tuko Rada”.

Leading Kenyan artists, celebrity athletes, footballers, youth leaders, media personalities, Business leaders, peace stakeholders, NYBA County youth forum members and over ten thousand peace loving Kenyan youth from all over the country will converge at the KICC Courtyard to pledge peace in Kenya and be the ambassadors of peace in the coming months as we head towards the election.

Date: Friday, February 16, 2013
Time: 10:00 - 18:00

Pamoja Wakenya: Walk Your Peace Talk

We are celebrating peace in Kenya and would like you all to have something Kenyan on you. It can be a t-shirt, a cap, a Bandana, Flags...Great performances by poets, musicians, dancers, spoken word artists, sketch artists... Kama si sisi basi nani (Juliani)?

Otherwise, dig out your sneakers and prepare for the great walk to peace! Get in touch with https://www.facebook.com/Badiliqa For your t-shirts now.

21 Days to go: Are you ready? Let's Walk our Peace Talk on 22nd February. Prepare for one of the biggest Peace Walks ever... Kenya is beautiful; Just take one look in the mirror & my statement is confirmed! Peaceful Beauty is the result when 5 Youth Organizations come together.

Join the interesting conversation on twitter @PamojaWakenya & @PoetryHubKenya to get more info... For the photographers who wanna be part of the Exhibition and the Artists/dancers who wanna perform, please get in touch for more details. -Chris Mukasa

Venue: University of Nairobi

Kenya's 2012 Top 40 Under 40 Men

Nation Media Group's Business Daily presented the annual 'Top 40 Under 40' awards on December 4th 2012. The awards ceremony which seeks to recognise and celebrate young Kenyan's achievements in the field of business, enterprise and professionalism were graced by Chief Justice Willy Mutunga.

Speaking at the unveiling of the list, Dr. Mutunga urged professionals to uphold integrity in their undertakings. 
"For persons in business, the case of the Enron Corporation is too well known. What tends to be forgotten is that the main problem was not the profitability of the business as such, but the lack of integrity among the decision-makers within it. In other words, it was the failure and/or refusal by the professionals within the organisation to do what they should have been doing." - Dr. Mutunga

Business Daily come up with this campaign five years ago, running the women's edition for four years before the men's version was finally unveiled in 2011.

Below is the complete list many have been asking for:-

Paul Russo
Position: Head, HR, Change and Operations, Barclays Africa
Age: 36

Call For Application:1st Annual Africa Youth Assembly

To all young Africans aged between 18 to 35 years, don't miss an excellent opportunity to participate in the inaugural Annual Africa Youth Assembly. 

Participant Role:
Our goal is to ensure that at least two young people from every African country are represented at this event, all with direct experience in youth-led development, so their valuable perspectives and realities provide a new paradigm for Africa’s development.

This is an excellent opportunity for a young person (aged 18 – 35) with an interest in youth-led development and experience of working in this area, to develop their skills and experience in discussion and debate.

Youth participants will have a unique opportunity to provide their own perspectives on the discussion and offer their experiences of significant and serious contributions that young people can make in Africa’s development.

Calls for Application: OneBeat 2013 Exchange

To all Kenyan Musicians 

OneBeat is an international cultural exchange that celebrates the transformative power of the arts through the creation of original, inventive music, and people-to-people diplomacy. In the fall of 2013, approximately 25 musicians (ages 19-35) from around the world will come together in the U.S. for four weeks to collaboratively write, produce, and perform original music, and develop ways that music can make a positive impact on our local and global communities.

Apply now for this golden opportunity!

Youth Initiative & Entrepreneurship Festival 2012

The Green Emerald Company invites all youth to Youth Initiative& Entrepreneurship Festival (YIEF) 2012 happening at Central Park (Behind Serena Hotel) on Saturday, 15^th December 2012.

Participants will be exposed to entrepreneurship, meet successful entrepreneurs, and Mentors.  

Keynote Speakers: Ambassador Beatrice Ndungu (African Development Ambassador for East, Central and South Africa & Media Creative Mogul)

Emcee: Koome Kazungu

Live performances by upcoming artistes

Dance performances by platinum Dance crew Dance fashion

Time: 9.00 am to 6.00 pm

Charges: Free

Certificates of participation will be given to all attendees

For more details contact:  info (at) greenemarld.com  

E-Sir Issah Mmari

Speak of the illest rapper to ever come from East Africa; E-sir was indeed the best at what he did. Born on 28 May 1981, California Estate and brought up in South C Estate, Nairobi County. His style of rap and lyrical Swahili style reached out the youth and even the young-at-heart. Simply, E-Sir was Hip-hop at its best.