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Fortune Sacco football team based in Kirinyaga will battle MOFA FC in a tense playoff affair to clinch the remaining National Super League spot. After leading the league for most of the season, Fortune Sacco football club stumbled, felling 1-0 to a ten-man Omax team in a decisive encounter at the Serani Sports Complex in…
The Ollin Savings and Credit Society Limited closed the 2023 with a notable growth of more than KSh8.8 million surplus compared to the previous year. According to the report, the surplus after taxation for the year 2022 was KSh1, 108, 246, but grew to KSh1, 301,427,544 by the end of last year. Revenue additions in…
Metropolitan Sacco 46th Annual General Meeting (AGM) that was taking place today at Kiambu High School ended unceremoniously as members demanded for financial reports. According to reports, the management of the Sacco said they did not have financial reports because SASRA had not approved them yet. The reports further indicate that members of the Sacco…
Cooperatives and MSMEs Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui has said that Government will develop various apps to assist artisans market products within and outside the country. The CS said that through digital marketing, artisans will to attract potential buyers worldwide which will uplift their livelihoods. The CS spoke during the recent Kigumo basket weavers’ expo and…
Tea directors from factories in the Mount Kenya region have lamented over the resurgence of cartels who want to siphon farmers’ money. The directors hailing from Zones one to seven, said that the well-connected individuals are on a mission to sabotage tea reforms by the Government. The State has been undertaking various reforms to liberate…
The ongoing coffee reforms are bearing fruit as prices at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) shoot up to all-time highs, the last week of February auction has given the solid proof. During the week’s auction on February 27, 2024, the prices rose to $9 million (approximately KSh717. 5 million), with action volume increasing to KSh1.3…
Mentor Sacco Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Joyce Waceke Ndegwa is one of the most highly rated female leaders in the cooperative sector in Kenya. Waceke, the lead actor in this increasingly illustrious cooperative society, exhibits deep knowledge of the Sacco sub-sector. “You need to understand your industry thoroughly; new and emerging trends, and threats and…
The managements of various Saccos in Mt Kenya region have intensified campaigns to educate their members on skills for prudent management of borrowed funds in a bid to tame increasing cases of default in loan payments. Most Sacco are still grappling with recovery of funds held in defaults by borrowers mainly attributed to prevailing economic…
GDC Sacco Society Ltd (GDC) has embarked on an ambitious plan to grow its asset base to KSh8.5 billion as it seeks to be among the top 50 Saccos in the country. The Sacco which currently has over 34,000 members, who are mainly dairy farmers in the agriculture-rich Githunguri Sub-county in Kiambu County, is keen…
Investors who bought land through a Thika based land firm, the Lesedi Developers Limited, have a reason to smile after the firm began issuing them with title deeds after years of wait. Following many days of court battles between the firm and investors over the former’s failure to issue them title deeds and alleged multiple…
