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Ken Akoko, a Kisumu resident receives a copy of the new look Standard newspaper from reporter Kepher Otieno. (Photo: Collins Oduor)
Kisii Police Station Commander John Sankale and his colleague Inspector Volker Edambo read the new-look Standard on April 9, 2021. [Courtesy]
Officer Reuben Ombongi admires the new-look Standard newspaper outside Kisii Police Station on April 9, 2021. [Photo: Stanley Ongwae, Standard.]
A motorist admires the new-look Standard newspaper along Uhuru Highway, Nairobi. [Standard photographer]
Members of the public in Embu grab a copy of the new-look Standard newspaper. [Photos: Muriithi Mugo]
Vendors with the new look Standard newspaper along the streets of Kisumu. [Collins Oduor, Standard]
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FINANCIAL STANDARD
Screen showing stock prices at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard.]
This was as telco Safaricom continued its dominance of the bourse, accounting for over half of the shares traded in March.
The NSE’s monthly bulletin, dubbed barometer, shows that the Fahari I-Reit, Kenya’s only listed real estate investment trust, recorded the highest return at 2.4 per cent while the investment services stocks had the largest loss of 8.4 per cent.
Other top sector returns included agriculture at 1.6 per cent, banking at 1.2 per cent, investment at 1.3 per cent and insurance at 0.3 per cent.
Nairobi securities exchange chairman Samuel Kimani, flanked by Deputy President William Ruto (Centre) and Oscar Onyema (Right) president of the African Securities exchange association (ASEA) and CEO of the Nigerian stock exchange, during the launch of 7th Building African financial markets (BAFM) seminar at Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi. [Ed
The felling of the various silo walls that kept us so close yet so far apart now takes us to the next phase; the tricky part of weaving the different souls to work in concert, dance to one beat, and focus on riding the next wave into a prosperous future rather than on beating the next competitor, Lyomu said.
Robin Sewell, the Standard Group Board chairman said over the decades, The Standard has stood its corner of relevance in an ever-evolving market.
It has demonstrated an enduring spirit of dynamism, versatility and agility that has not only enabled it to remain relevant, but also a strong proposition in the marketplace for discerning consumers, he said.
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KENYA
MD Broadcast Joe Munene (from left), ICT CS Joe Mucheru, Editorial Director Ochieng Rapuro and Standard Group Deputy Board Chairman Dr. Julius Kipngetich during the relaunch of The Standard newspaper at the Standard Group offices in Nairobi on April 8, 2021. [Elvis Ogina,Standard]
As the oldest paper in the country, The Standard has evolved in the more than 100 years of its existence, adjusting constantly to the changing world around it.
During the colonial times the paper remained “a typical European people’s paper concerned with the happenings in Britain and urging subservience to the settlers”, says Absalom Mutere and John Baptist Abuogo in The History of The Press in Kenya.
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