BY BENARD AYIEKO Shelter, food and clothing are the traditional basic human needs – they are the fundamental elements that one requires for survival and normal mental and physical health. Housing is one of the essential human needs and the constitution guarantees every citizen the right to access adequate housing, and to reasonable standards of sanitation. It is often said that the Kenyan Constitution is the most progressive document in the world partly because of the provisions in Chapters four and six on the Bill of Rights and Integrity and Leadership respectively. The Constitution in Chapter four under Article 43,…
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BY DAVID ONJILI With five games to spare, Gor Mahia FC continued to cement her place as the undisputed kings of Kenyan football by clinching her fourth title in five years. Defending champions Tusker were a pale shadow of themselves finishing a distant six while former giants like AFC Leopards and Mathare United were fighting against relegation. The gulf in class between Gor Mahia and the rest of the league is self-evident week in week out and this should be a wakeup call to all football stakeholders on the dwindling standards of the game. This has been replicated at the…
Tamarind Tree Hotel is Nairobi’s newest 4-star hotel operated by Tamarind Management Limited under the Tamarind Tree Hotels’ brand. Tamarind Tree Hotel is located 15 minutes from Nairobi City center, 20 minutes from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport via the Southern Bypass, 10 minutes from Wilson Airport and 5 minutes to the Nairobi National Park, Langata Gate and a 5-minute walk from the world-renowned Carnivore restaurant and Simba Saloon. The hotel has 160 guest rooms including 15 Suites, 45 standard twins, 96 standard doubles, and four paraplegic rooms for physically challenged and 12 Inter-connecting rooms. The hotel features a Tamambo a la Carte…
“It’s really important that students don’t think of education solely as preparation for the next stage of their life.” Sir Michael Barber has been at the forefront of global thinking in education for the past twenty years. He served as Chief Education Advisor to Pearson. He is the Founder and Chairman of Deliinery Associates. In the past, Barber has served as the head of the global education practice at McKinsey, advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair, and as a global expert on education reform and implementation of large-scale system change. Additionally, he has been a consultant to governments around the…
BY KENYATTA OTIENO An old acquaintance once told me that he is not planning to leave Nairobi even if he loses his job. The guy had managed to escape the poverty of Nyalenda Slums in Kisumu so there was no way he was going back to a life he was trying his best to forget. “If you happen to hear of my death, make sure that I’m transported in a hearse while my head is facing Nairobi. If that wish is not honoured my hearse will not get to Kisumu,” he hilariously told me. Those words might have been said…
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, recently announced results from the first ever study on the impact of mobile attacks in enterprise environments. Findings from the research are based on data collected from more than 850 organisations spread across four continents and are stark: enterprise mobility is found to be susceptible to attack on both major mobile platforms, Android and iOS. Threats to mobile users are capable of compromising any device and accessing sensitive data at any time. These threats impact every type of business from financial services to government to manufacturing. Some…
BY PETER WANYONYI In January 2017, this column ran an article titled “2017 – Year of the Cloud in Kenya”. Indeed, 2017 has been a good year for cloud adoption in Kenya, even though recent surveys have found that many organisations – including the Government – still persist with traditional investments in on-premise IT infrastructure. To recap, cloud computing is, effectively, leasing computing capacity – storage, infrastructure, even software and applications – from an internet-based provider, and thus paying just for what is consumed. So, instead of investing millions of shillings in servers to install on the organisation’s premises (with…
New research indicates that criminals are increasingly exploiting the growth of ‘fake news’ for commercial gain. The growth of so-called fake news has traditionally been associated with the political sphere and executed for ideological purposes. However, research conducted by analysts at Digital Shadows reveals the growth of toolkits and services – available for just $7 – that are aimed specifically at causing financial and reputational damage for companies. In particular, Digital Shadows has noticed a recent trend towards the growth on the dark web of so-called ‘Pump and Dump’ services. These are designed to work by gradually purchasing major shares…
BY ALASTAIR PATERSON While Equifax is the latest major data breach to hit the headlines, we know it will not be the last. How prepared is your organization if you were similarly targeted? As we all know, the impact of the Equifax breach is widespread, potentially affecting 143 million individuals in the U.S, Canada and the UK whose personally identifiable information (PII) and (to some extent) financial information was accessed by malicious actors. The exact impact is yet to be seen and depends on the motives of the attackers and the ways in which they plan to use the data, but…
By NBM WRITER They said that necessity is the mother of invention. They weren’t wrong. A group of traders at the famous Gikomba market have devised new ways to beat the competition and make a life in these hard economic times. Instead of confining themselves to stalls or hawking their wares in bulk, as is often the norm, this small band buys a single item then moves away to sell it to another customer at a small profit. Some even buy for their own consumption only to sale to the next person who shows interest – a concept made popular…