Elijah Ntongai

The National Assembly has approved an additional KSh 14,801,023,911 in exchequer funds and KSh 6,102,000,000 in aid appropriations under supplementary funding for the 2025/2026 financial year The State House, the Office of the Deputy President, the National Police Service, and the National Intelligence Service have emerged as major beneficiaries The approved bill also unlocked KSh 1.5 billion to clear long-standing arrears owed to teachers who served as invigilators and examiners during the...

Parliament has approved additional funding for the 2025/2026 financial year, clearing an overall budget increase of about KSh 18 billion Payments for invigilators and examiners are now expected to be processed before the close of the financial year on June 30, bringing relief to thousands of educators who have waited months for their dues Elijah Ntongai is an experienced editor at TUKO.co.ke, with more than four years in financial, business, labour and technology research and reporting.

Six African countries now require more than 2,000 units of their local currency to purchase a single US dollar, with Sierra Leone's leone and São Tomé and Príncipe's dobra topping the list of the continent's weakest currencies The weakness of these currencies, measured against the benchmark US dollar, tells a story of import dependence, political instability, commodity price volatility, and the outsized influence of external economic forces Several East African countries are on the list of...