Science and Engineering Experts have called on young female students to pursue professional carriers in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in Nigeria. The experts who were drawn from the public and private institutions in Nigeria, as well as the development sector, made this call recently at the Engineering for Girls Symposium, organized by the Center for Economic and Leadership Development, an NGO in special consultative status with the United Nations, ECOSOC. The event, which was held at the Baze University, Engineering Auditorium in Abuja, was attended by the wife of the Deputy Governor of Delta State,…
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Family Bank has entered into a partnership with Simba Corporation Limited in a deal that will enable Small and Medium-Sized customers in the agribusiness, trade and logistics businesses to conveniently purchase Fuso trucks, Mitsubishi and Mahindra products at competitive interest rates. Business owners in the agribusiness sector and the education and religious institutions will be able to access 100% financing with a five-year repayment period while other business enterprises access 95% financing repayable in a period of up to 60 months. Other customers, including Public Service Vehicles, will be able to access up to 80% financing repayable in a period…
Kenya’s Xers are well aware they should be saving and investing more for retirement but are too muddied in outstanding bills and debt and find it easier to prioritise other things BY BANCY KALELI Many Kenyans grossly underestimate how much they will need to retire. Part of this obliviousness is due to a lack of understanding of what it will really take to retire comfortably meaning that even those who think they are prepared for retirement are not able to justify their preparedness. Apart from millennials aged between 22 and 34, the cohort closest to a financial turmoil is Generation…
BY CYNTHIA WAIRIMU The choice of makeup seems infinite today. But while some shades highlight our best features, others don’t let them shine. Such things depend on a number of different factors. NBM’s CYNTHIA WAIRIMU talked to Wanjiru Kanyanjua, a professional makeup artist for four years now and winner of Mashujaa Awards, Make-up artist of the year 2016/2017 and 2019/2020 on how to choose a foundation and what works for different skin types. Cynthia: How do I know what shade fits my skin? Kanyanjua: To start with, people have different preferences when it comes to make up application. Some may prefer using…
I realized that I did not take care of my mother. Even when I saw that she would not survive, I still went back to South Africa yet she needed care giving. She wished me happy birthday before she died. Ms Wanjiku Kairu is the founder and CEO of Purity Elderly Care Foundation, an organization that cares for the elderly. She spoke to NBM’s Jacob Oketch about what inspired her to establish the organization, her goals and objectives, challenges and the milestones she envisages for the organization. In her own words… I founded Purity Elderly Care Foundation in honour of…
BY NBM WRITER A fairly recent book by veteran Kenyan writer Muthoni Likimani. A unique and kind of book that everybody who is concerned about one of the most evil practices on earth – modern slavery and human trafficking, has to lay their hands on. Written in the form of fictional anecdotes and true stories, My Blood is Not For Sale combines creative excellence and reality to strike a very powerful code with the readers. The author gives a powerful flashback of what Kenya underwent during the colonial times in her prologue. She reminds readers of the hardships that Kenyans encountered…
BY GAD WESONGA This short story was published in 1989, foreshadowing Ken Saro Wiwa’s own death six years later at the cruel, brutal and unscrupulous hands of Nigeria’s military regime of Sani Abacha. Written in the form of a letter to an old girlfriend from a prisoner on the night preceding his execution, Africa Kills Her Sun is a satire on the endemic sleaze and corruption, rampant at all levels of Nigerian society and with it, the evaporation of any form of optimism among the masses. To illustrate the gravity of corruption in society, Bana, the narrator confesses that though…
Persistence was just a loophole created to give men more room and ways of disregarding their responsibilities as heads of families BY BRENDA VIOLA There he stood, a couple of tears slipping from his eyelids, tears of joy I supposed. In his well pressed black tuxedo, he stood tall above the rest. His bow tie in place. His pocket square sat seamlessly in the breast pocket of his suit. From where I was, he looked contented, eager, and even hopeful; a look every bride wished to see on her groom as she walked down the aisle to meet him on…
Documenting of all the resentments affords one an opportunity to prioritize what to deal with and what to put aside for mulling and even what, at the moment, seems unsalvageable BY JACOB OKETCH Writing about staying away from alcohol is a very hard thing to do because the norm is to do the opposite. The immense pull in alcohol, generating tonnes of money for advertisements, for example, makes it the king. Some dailies have, for instance, given acres of space to review watering holes and brands of liquor on the market. Other writers just marvel about the thrill of the…
BY YOMI KAZEEM OKash and OPesa, the Africa-focused consumer lending apps of Opera, the Chinese-owned internet browsing giant, appear to be flouting Google’s Play Store policies. In a recent report, equity research house Hindenburg Research suggested that Opera’s Android-based lending apps in Nigeria, Kenya and India typically require loan repayments within a 30 day period—less than Google’s stipulation of 60 days with steep interest rate payments. Hindenburg Research also highlighted discrepancies in information contained in the apps’ description online and their actual practices. While they require payments in a shorter time-span, the apps list repayment periods that fall within Google’s stipulation…