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South Africa’s private education firm Advtech will open a school under its Crawford Schools brand in September in Kiambu’s Tatu City, continuing its aggressive expansion drive in Kenya. The Sandton-based firm, which is also listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), recently acquired the Makini Group of Schools. Executives of The Crawford International School Kenya […]

A partnership between Tatu City and the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) has seen the rehabilitation of a key borehole in Masol Ward, West Pokot County, benefiting more than 5,000 people. The project was made possible with a Ksh3 million donation by Tatu City. The rehabilitation works were completed in February 2018 and the borehole […]

Africa Logistics Properties (ALP) has signed a long term lease for nearly 4,500 sqm of its flagship ALP North Logistics Warehousing Complex with Copia Global, the fast growing e-commerce FMCG distributor that specialises in supplying rural Kenya. ALP is currently constructing Kenya’s first international standard grade-A logistics warehousing on two sites in Nairobi. ALP North, […]

The first group of 25 students have graduated from the Tatu City Training Academy. The students, drawn from local communities surrounding Tatu City, took a six-week accredited course in masonry led by training partner Arc Skills. The training academy is designed to provide vocational skills relevant to the construction industry and includes topics such as […]

Vision 2030 Delivery Board and Tatu City developers have formed seven working committees to put in place right policies, offer statutory and infrastructure support to accelerate implementation of the 5,000-acre development. The membership of the committees will be drawn from the Vision 2030 Delivery Board comprising of Principal Secretaries in the Education, Water, Energy, Transport, […]

The first Nova Primary School will work to model implementation of Kenya’s new national curriculum in support of Ministry of Education vision. Nova Pioneer Education Group, a Pan-African independent school network that focuses on leadership and innovation, has announced that it will be launching its first primary school in Kenya starting January 2018. The primary […]

Tatu City, in partnership with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the U.S.-based architecture, engineering, and urban planning firm, hosted two University of Nairobi students for a two-week training course in London. Naomi Wangare and Boniface Nyaila, from the university’s Real Estate and Construction Management department, were given rigorous work experience in the fields of architectural […]

  Africa Logistics Properties (ALP) has announced the signing of Kenya’s largest ever warehousing lease, with Freight Forwarders Solutions Ltd (FFS), the contract logistics arm of leading regional logistics group Freight Forwarders Kenya (FFK). FFS has signed a 10-year lease for ALP’s entire first Nairobi warehouse complex of 14,000 square metres, equivalent to the size […]