Whether Huduma Namba is a conduit for corruption is not clear, what’s clear is that it is an outright wastage of public resources. The other thing that’s clear is that the number has nothing ..
So, yesterday I attended the University of Nairobi Taifa town hall meeting with the French Republic President Mr. Emmanuel Macron. The event was moderated by Julie Gichuru. Julie is an amazing person but she normally ..
A few days ago, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) released its inaugural Gross County Product (GCP) report. The GCP is supposed to measure economic activities at the county level, just like ..
A recent Gross County Product (GCP) report shows that Tharaka Nithi County leads the rest of the country in creating more wealth per person in real terms. The data shows that incomes per person grew faster ..
Elgeyo Marakwet is the fastest growing county in Kenya. This is according to a newly released report on Gross County Product (GCP) – a concept that is conceptually similar to county GDPs. From the report, ..
A recent report on Gross County Product (GCP) released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that counties’ growth is driven mostly by agriculture and services. An analysis of growth ..
A recently released report on Gross County Product (GCP) shows that Nairobi contributes 21.7 per cent to Kenya’s growth hence the largest contributor to Kenya’s growth. This settles the long-running ..
When he attended the 2016 World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Kennedy Kachwanya noticed one important attribute Europeans and Asians have that sets them apart from the rest of us – their level of curiosity ..
The question however is, should we rectify the 8-4-4 system or should we abandon it and move on to a brand new curriculum? CBS will see leaners go through 2 years in pre-primary, 6 years in primary, 3 years ..
Slightly more than a week ago his Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta held a round table Q & A with journalists from NTV, KTN, K24, KBC, and Citizen, in which he answered questions ranging from corruption ..
Central Bank of Kenya Governor Patrick Njoroge in June this year came out strongly against the intense and continued borrowing Kenya has been doing since 2013. According to the Governor, Kenya loans have ..
The controversy surrounding the notice that filmmakers in Kenya must obtain a filming license on or before May 28, 2018 is still brewing, with KFCB and its chair Dr. Ezekiel Mutua continuing to issue confused ..
The fact that the module for film licensing in Kenya has serious problems was brought to public attention when a week ago, on Monday May 14, 2018, Kenya Film Classification Board published a notice that ..
Nurturing Africa’s Growing Private Healthcare Market. Written by Dustin Homer, Director: Client Solutions for Fraym The African socio-economic landscape – much like its geographical landscape – is characterized ..
Last week when travelling from Nakuru to Nairobi I saw the driver tack in a shillings 50 note into his driving licence. I asked him what traffic law he had broken given that he hadn’t carried any excess ..
The Wikipedia list of countries by unemployment rate places Kenya at position five (5) from the bottom, or position 194 overall out of 199 countries. According to that list, unemployment rate in Kenya ..
Huawei P20 Pro is almost out, and it has the best smartphone camera ever made. This is despite the fact that a smartphone is a device whose top two functions are 1. Communication and 2. Content consumption; ..
Ever since I discovered Google Search in 2004, it never occurred to me that there would be a point in time when I would dump Google Search or any of its search services for any other search engine. Prior ..
It must be MPESA that is responsible Kenya’s economic stability since 2007. Let me explain: It can be confidently argued that Kenya experienced her worst economic moments during Moi era. People were ..
This article is in two parts – 1. how hacking of IEBC Servers helped in the rigging August 8th Presidential Elections through manipulation of results from some 11,000 polling stations, and 2 why such ..
Written By Jung Hyun Park, Vice President and Managing Director, Samsung Electronics East Africa The outlook for education in sub-Saharan Africa is more positive than it has ever been, with the region ..
In the course of this electioneering period, we at KachTech Media (owners of Kachwanya.com and Chetenet.com) have made three predictions in regards to Kenya Elections 2017. The first prediction was done ..
The year 2017 will probably be more associated with the forth-coming general elections in Kenya and whatever will happen thereafter but this is also the year M-PESA turned ten. M-pesa was launched ..
Uhuru Kenyatta will trounce Raila Odinga in the forth coming presidential elections with 48% against Raila’s 43%, that is according to the latest Infotrak Research Consulting opinion poll carried ..
It is that time of the year where every one, including myself, rushes to KRA website to file the annual tax returns. By the way if you wouldn’t have filed your tax returns by the end of tomorrow ..
It is exactly 16 days since the official campaigns period for this year’s general elections started. In the last 16 days, we have seen both NASA and Jubilee hit the roads to ask Kenyans to vote for them. ..
Summary stats on failed Jubilee promises Jobs tops the list of failed Jubilee promises. Jubilee promised to deliver 1 million jobs per year. They delivered 804,000 jobs per year. There were 5.1 million ..
There is turmoil in the retail industry in Kenya. Supermarket chains are reporting a drop in revenues, closing some branches in Kenya, closing operations in other East African countries, retrenching workers, ..
A PewResearchCentre 2015 report shows that Kenya’s middle class is plunging deep into poverty. The report shows that while the global middle-income population has doubled, Kenya’s middle class ..
Is ShowMax ready to take over Kenyan entertainment market? That’s the question Kennedy Kachwanya asked our readers on Friday last week, and he went ahead to explain how the business model ShowMax ..