Grateful to the @avancemedia team for the recognition as Avance Media's 2023 100 Most Influential Young Africans list (8th Edition)!
https://t.co/F2ruh4UC4l
#100MIYA#AvanceMedia#YoungAfricans
🎂 Happy #Birthday, Lionel #Messi! 🐐🇦🇷
Heute feiert Lionel Messi seinen 39. Geburtstag – und blickt auf eine Karriere zurück, die ihresgleichen sucht. ✨
🏆 Weltmeister
🏆 4x Champions-League-Sieger
🏆 3x UEFA-Supercup-Sieger
🏆 10x spanischer Meister
🏆 7x spanischer Pokalsieger
🏆 7x spanischer Superpokalsieger
🏆 2x französischer Meister
🏆 1x französischer Superpokalsieger
🏆 2x Copa-América-Sieger
🏆 3x FIFA-Klub-Weltmeister
🏆 Olympiasieger 2008
🏆 U20-Weltmeister 2005
🏆 1x MLS Cup Champion
🥇 8x Ballon d'Or
🥇 6x Goldener Schuh
🥇 16x Fußballer des Jahres
🥇 4x Weltfußballer
🥇 3x Europas Fußballer des Jahres
🥇 Golden Boy 2005
🥇 Rekordtorschütze Argentiniens
🥇 Rekordtorjäger des FC Barcelona
Von Rosario über Barcelona bis zum größten Titel von allen: dem WM-Triumph in Katar. Messi hat nahezu jeden Rekord gebrochen, jeden großen Titel gewonnen und eine ganze Generation geprägt.
39 Jahre alt. Eine lebende Legende. 🐐👑
The the FIFA World Cup kicks off today. We join millions of fans across Kenya and the world in wishing all participating teams a successful tournament, with a special salute to the African nations carrying our continent’s hopes onto the global stage.
May the competition showcase excellence, unity, resilience and the enduring power of sport to bring people together across borders and cultures.
Let the games begin! ⚽🏆
A pretty heavy National Assembly agenda starting this afternoon:
Thursday 11th June, 2026
· Pronouncement of the 2026/27 Budget highlights by National Treasury CS, John Mbadi
Tuesday 16th June, 2026
· Appropriation Bill 2026 goes through the Second Reading & Committee of the Whole House
· Finance Bill 2026 goes through the Second Reading & Committee of the Whole House. This means we should expect the Finance & Planning Committee Report to be tabled
· The Central Bank of Kenya (Amendment) Bill 2026 goes through the Second Reading
· The Kenya Revenue Authority (Amendment) Bill goes through the Second Reading
From Morocco’s Atlas Lions 🇲🇦 and Senegal’s Lions of Teranga 🇸🇳 to South Africa’s Bafana Bafana 🇿🇦, Africa will be well represented at the Fifa World Cup. 🌍⚽
Which team will you be cheering on? 🔥
"We are spending more than twice the global average on elections. And this is primarily because we are living in a very low trust political environment." - @TomMboya#TSNR
Listen to the full conversation here --->
https://t.co/kuXN3unLtr
The world has been warned El Nino is returning, so what is it, and should we be worried?
@SeabrookClimate has the details about the natural weather phenomenon
https://t.co/HBiwnKonMO
Through the ups and downs - we felt your backing every step of the way this season, Gooners 👏
We can't wait to celebrate an historic season with you later today in N5 ❤️
The National Assembly Finance & Planning Committee has been told that the argument by the National Treasury that Finance Bill 2026 will make phones cheaper by consolidating taxes on mobile phones is incorrect.
In case you are lost, here's what Finance Bill 2026 proposes:
· Delete paragraph 29, of the 2nd Schedule to the VAT Act, 2013 which currently provides VAT
zero rate on the supply of locally assembled & manufactured mobile phones
· The Bill proposes to classify as exempt the supply of imported or locally purchased telephones for cellular networks & other wireless networks
· Impose 25.0% excise rate on locally assembled phones (currently 0%) & increase the rate on
imports from 10.0% to 25.0%
· Also, the Bill shifts the excise duty trigger to the point of phone activation
· The Bill proposes to exempt imported finished phones from IDF and RDL
Sun King's core argument is that Finance Bill 2026 means that locally assembled phones will lose 3 protections they currently enjoy simultaneously:
· Input VAT recovery since they are being reclassified from Zero-rated to Exempt status
· Prior excise exemption
· While Finance Bill 2026 exempts imported finished phones from IDF and RDL, it provides no equivalent relief for imported components used in local assembly of phones
Sun King argues that the net effect of Finance Bill 2026 proposals is that:
· There will be ~11.0% retail price increase required to make the current operations for imported finished phones viable under a Finance Bill 2026 tax regime
· There will be a ~34.0% retail price increase required to make the current operations for locally assembled phones viable under a Finance Bill 2026 tax regime
Sun King argues that its Tatu City facility (Kes 25.0 million invested, 50+ direct jobs, 80,000 phones produced to date) would face closure under a Finance Bill 2026 arrangement as currently proposed.