16 Hot Braid Extensions Styles For Women Not Afraid Of Color

  By JEMEDARI Mwanawakiume

Have you ever wanted to try a new color with your hair but didn’t want to permanently dye it?

What about a bold color like purple, red, pink, blue, green, or even grey? Well, we have a simple solution for you. Braids or twists are easy ways to try out new bold colors without altering the color of your hair.

These 16 beauties are rocking bold and daring colored braids. What color will you try?

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Kenya Revenue Authority punishes non compliant taxpayers

Press Release.

1.7 million Kenyans met the deadline for filing their returns by yesterday midnight (June 30, Thursday, 2016).

Kenya Revenue Authority commends taxpayers for turning up in large numbers to meet their tax obligation.

This is a true show of patriotism that should be embraced more in the new financial year.

The Authority would like to reiterate that the deadline for filing returns has not been extended and will not be extended.

Consequently,Kenya Revenue Authority informs taxpayers that according to the Tax Procedure Act 2015, Section 83, late filing of returns attract penalties as follows;

• For employment returns, the higher of 25% of tax due or KSh  10, 000.

• For Turnover Tax return – KSh 5, 000.

• In any other case, 25% of the tax payable under the return or Ksh 25, 000 whichever is higher.

• For failure to submit a document other than a tax return, Ksh 1, 000 for each day or part day of default but the total shall not exceed KSh 50, 000.

Taxpayers should seek to know the specific penalty that applies to them.

iTAX Support Centers will continue to operate under normal working hours to assist those filing their returns late.

iTax was introduced by the taxman as a means of getting a 360 degrees view of thee taxpayer in an effort to enhance tax compliance.

Safaricom brings in new top boss from Vodacom Tanzania

Press Release

John, joined Safaricom from Vodafone Tanzania, where he held the roles of Acting Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.  He is an original member of the Qatar start-up team which was founded in 2008 and has built a population market share of 48% within 2 years. 

John first joined Vodafone in New Zealand in 2003, and has since held senior financial roles in both mobile and fixed telecommunications operations.  He is a Board member of Vodafone Qatar, and was previously a Board member of Vodafone Fiji. 

Prior to joining Vodafone, John was a management consultant with clients across a variety of industries.

John is a 49 year old New Zealander and has a Bachelor of Management Studies, with majors in marketing and accounting.

Safaricom has today announced the appointment of Sateesh Kamath as it’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Executive Board Member of Safaricom Ltd., effective August, 2016.

Kamath joins Safaricom from Vodacom Tanzania Ltd, where he was the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director on the board of Vodacom Tanzania.
With over 19 years’ experience in both mature and emerging markets across Asia, Europe and Africa, Kamath has a strong background in strategic performance management and building robust operations across the telecoms, FMCG and manufacturing sectors.

Prior to his former position at Vodacom, Kamath has held senior roles for the last 12 years at both a global and local level for Vodafone operations in London, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey and Fiji.

He is also non-executive Director in other group companies and investments.
Kamath succeeds current CFO and Executive Director John Tombleson, who took up the position in 2011.

As Tombleson comes to the end of his five year term, he will be returning home to Vodafone New Zealand to take up a new opportunity as the Integration Director of the recently announced merger between Vodafone New Zealand and Sky New Zealand.

A senior Vodafone resource,  Tombleson joined Safaricom from Vodafone Qatar, where he held the position of Ag Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

Tombleson first joined Vodafone in his home country of New Zealand in 2003, and has since held progressively senior financial roles in both mobile and fixed telecommunications operations.

“Kamath will join the company to steer its next phase of development as we work towards becoming ensuring our business continues its sustainable growth,

“As Tombleson’s tenure comes to its close, we are pleased that he will leave the company to return to his home town leaving behind a strengthened investor relations portfolio and strong relationships with our shareholders,

“As a seasoned financial executive,  Tombleson leaves the company having steered the company through its most robust and fruitful years. He has been an invaluable resource to the executive team,” said ,” said Bob Collymore, Safaricom CEO.

See the phone that Uhuru Kenyatta uses

You probably use a phone twice expensive as Uhuru Kenyatta’s. Mine ranges within the same pricing. Really.

Uhuru Kenyatta uses a secure phone for his official communications. A phone that he was recently photographed holding at a function he was a guest at.
Uhuru Kenyatta, we’ve figured out, uses an android phone. After-all.

On scrutiny, it turns out that the president uses a Blackberry Priv. A secure mobile phone that runs on an android operating system- so maybe when he is relaxing in the evenings at home, he plays Candy Crush saga. Yes?

Uhuru Kenyatta bares his Black Berry Priv’s phone at a recent function.

It has an 18 megapixel back camera and can take videos of 4K resolution- that is just in case the president notices something amusing and he chooses to record it for his High Definition  amusement purposes.

The president can store up such HD videos or his favorite hip hop music to the 32 GB’s internal memory of the phone while enjoying that the phone is a touch screen that comes with a slide-out physical keyboard.

The Black Berry Priv. It has two keyboards- a touch screen and a slideout physical keyboard just for giggles. Photo Source:crackberry.com

On Amazon, the phone is priced at slightly over KSh 42,000. Here in Kenya,  new one would probably set your bank account KSh 50,000 back  or slightly more.

In 2015, Nairobi Senator, Mike Senator showed off his gold encrusted phone. A Vertu designer luxury phone that cost him an excess KSh 1.3 million shillings.

On Relationships: 13 Extremely Hilarious Quotes Romoured to be President Robert Mugabe's

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By JEMEDARI Mwanawakiume

“If your girlfriend/boyfriend has not taken a picture with you before just make that request and stop forcing Photo Grid to bring you together.”

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1. “Some women’s legs are like rumors, they just keep on spreading”

2. “It’s hard to bewitch African girls these days because each time you take a piece from her hair to the witch doctor, either a Brazilian innocent woman gets mad or a factory in China catches fire”.

3. “If you are ugly; you are ugly – stop talking about inner beauty because we don’t walk around with X-rays”.

4. “Dear sister, don’t be deceived by a man who text you “I miss you” only when it’s raining. You are not an umbrella”.

5. “Check your girlfriend’s body, if she has more tattoos or piercings, you can cheat on her. She is already used to pain.”

6. “Dating a slim or slender guy is cool. The problem is when you are lying on his chest then his ribs draw adidas lines on your face”.

7. “It’s better for a man to be stingy with the money he has hustled for, than for a woman to deny you a hole that she didn’t even drill it herself.”

8. “Some of you girls can’t even jog for 5 minutes but expect a guy to last in bed with you for 2hours??? Your level of selfishness demands a one week crusade”.

9. “If your girlfriend/boyfriend has not taken a picture with you before just make that request and stop forcing Photo Grid to bring you together.”

10.”God is the best inventor ever. He took a rib from a man and created a loudspeaker”.

11.”If women think having their period (menstruation) in a whole month is a difficult task, they should ask the men how difficult is it to control an erected Penis in public.”

12. “Some girls don’t attend the gym but look physically fit because of running from one man to another”

13. “When you kiss a girl from another nationality, do it well because you represent the whole country”

Photos of Queen Elizabeth meeting 11 US presidents

Queen Elizabeth II with US President Barack Obama (2009-2016). Image: Getty

Queen Elizabeth with George W. Bush (2001-2009) Image: Getty

Queen Elizabeth with Bill Clinton (1993-2001) with his wife Hillary and their daughter Chelsea. Image: Getty

Queen Elizabeth with George Bush senior (1989-1993). Image: Getty

Queen Elizabeth with Jimmy Carter (1977-1981). Image: Getty

The Queen with Gerald Ford (1974-1977). Image: Getty

Queen Elizabeth II with Richard Nixon (1969-1974). Image: Getty

The Queen with John F. Kennedy (1961-1963). Image: Getty

The Queen with Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961). Image: Getty

The Queen with Harry S. Truman (1945-1953). Image: Getty

Meet the Form 3 girl from Meru who's 6 feet 9 inches in height

A 15-year-old secondary school girl in Meru county turns heads wherever she goes, owing to her startling height.
Jackline Mwende, a Form Three student at Gikurune Girls High School in Imenti South stands at a towering height of 6 feet 9 inches, taller than even most of her teachers, let alone schoolmates.

At that height, the teenager is taller than top American basketballer LeBron James and nearly the height of legendary NBA player Shaquille O’neal, who is 7 ft 1in.

During a previous media interview with The Standard, Mwende said that at first, she was conscious of her height and hated the stares, but with time, she came to appreciate her uniqueness and is even glad to pose for photos with strangers who request her.

“At first, I was not comfortable with people stopping their activities to watch me walk past as I accompanied my school mates or grandmother during the holidays. This made my grandmother Abishag Mbae very protective of me. Purity Mbae, my mother, is currently away studying and working, so I live with my grandmother at Nthimbiri, in Imenti North. It became a habit for my grandmother to accompany me on most outings. She is a very helpful companion. With time, however, my confidence grew and I began to appreciate my uniqueness. Today, I am honoured when someone asks me to pose for photos with them!” said the girl, an only child to her parents of Meru origin, but are abroad in Australia.

In school, she has a challenging time walking into regular height doors, sitting in desks or the school bus, but she welcomes all this as what comes with her unique nature.

“When her grandmother told us that she was very tall and would probably be a challenge to us, we had no idea she was this tall. When we eventually met her, we thought her height might affect her self-esteem, but were pleasantly surprised to learn that it was the opposite. She is very likable and assertive. When she has a problem, she raises it without fear. She also makes friends easily. In fact, when she joined our institution, Mwende turned down an offer to have a special bed and locker made for her. She wanted to have the same facilities and treatment as other students and we respected that,” commented the school’s principal Purity Riungu, who described the girl as an obedient and keen student.

Mwende, an active member of the basketball team in her school, hopes to join the media for a career in journalism, when she grows up.

Thousands in last minute rush to beat tax returns deadline

Thousands of taxpayers thronged KRA offices on Thursday to file their tax returns in a last minute rush to beat the June 30 deadline.

A spot check at Times Tower, the GPO and City Square Huduma Centres revealed long queues of people who were waiting to file their returns amid claims that services on the online portal were down.

"If you are here for services to do with KRA, we cannot help you because our systems are down," a female attendant at the City Square Huduma Centre told a group of taxpayers who had turned up for the filing.

"If you need help on KRA, go to railways centre or Times Tower, huko system zao zinafanya (systems there are working)," the lady said.

An almost similar response met tax payers who had sought to file their returns in cyber cafes.

"Tuko na net but site ya KRA haifanyi. (We have network but the KRA portal is unresponsive)," an attendant at a cyber café on Tom Mboya Street told a customer who had sought to know if he could file his returns.

The tax agency on Tuesday said that at least 1.2 million taxpayers had filed their returns through the online platform.

Kenyans have been filing their returns in 37 Huduma centres situated across the country.

Failure to file returns on or before the due date attracts a default penalty of Sh10,000 up from the previous penalty of Sh1,000.

See these beautiful artworks made by a young Nigerian

How else could one describe these works of art if the words genius and tenacity are not being used. Nigerians are certainly not holding back anymore when it comes to talent and we would not stop displaying the beautiful works they create too. We presented to you the pictures of car made by bamboo like two weeks ago; remember we have also showed you pictures of the young man who made a storey-building with sticks and bamboo too.
This piece will twitch the artistic part of you and in spire you to do something different too. The works of art you would be seeing below were shared by Olobo Harry, a young man in Portharcourt.
Find below some of these pictures:

 1. See this beautiful building

 

2. Awwwww

3. Awesome

 

4. Magnificent

5. Simply beautiful

 

6. Only a talented person can pull this off

Mandera only allowing Somalis to travel to and from county

Mandera county has banned the travel plans of  non-Somali citizens in and out of the county until Ramadan is over.

According to the Daily Nation, a bus company manager working in the region who spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity said the police commander called a meeting for all bus companies and directed them no to allow non-Somalis on board.

Only Somalis have been travelling in and out of the county since Tuesday, June 28.

Acting Mandera East Deputy County Commissioner Yonah Nyawir said that it was a short term move aimed at reducing tension and allow for the reorganization of security operations.

“We are not barring people from traveling from either Mandera or to Nairobi. We’re saying that they should use alternative means because threats have been eminent for the last 10 days of Ramadan,” explained Nyawir.

He also said that security organs did not want to expose the lives of non-locals and has therefore given them alternative routes.

“They can either use aircraft of use pick-ups plying the Mandera-Takaba-Moyale-Marsabit route until the situation returns to normal after Ramadan. In the meantime, we will be repairing police vehicles and coming up with better security plans,” added Nyawir.

An air ticket out of Mandera to Nairobi costs KSh 16,000 one way according to a local who wanted to travel to Nairobi to attend to his sick spouse.
However, a police source who spoke to Daily Nation said officers assigned to escort buses had downed their tools due to the challenges they were dacing.

“The Kenya Police Reservists are performing the duties right now because their bosses refused to listen to them and provide extra escort vehicles,
“We asked them to rearrange the seats in the cars so that we could face side ways to monitor the roads but we still seat facing each other making it difficult to escape and fight the enemy if we are attacked,” said the police officer.

Earlier this month, intelligence reports said that al-Shabaab militant group had threatened to attack Kenyan soil during the month of Ramadan.
A list of possible target locations included Mandera, Wajir, Nairobi, Mombasa and Garissa.

In the ensuing weeks, a number of attacks were reported out of North Eastern counties after police officers were attacked and five killed in the ensuing fire exchange.

Others were attacked using improvised explosive devises.
Al-Shabaab claimed that the attacks were done to avenge the death of their commander who had been killed in an AMISOM operation near Mogadishu.

In the last two weeks, they have attacked locations close to the Kenya Defense Forces affecting communication and water sources.