Car and General has added a construction equipment range, a 12 tonne ACE soil and asphalt compactor, in a move that is expected to commercially empower players in the construction space. The company whose services and products range from supply of generators to motorbikes, three wheelers and lawn mowers, construction equipment, power generation and engineering products backed by service and repairs, is vying for a piece of the construction sector, so it seems. ACE is fitted with a turbo charged water cooled fuel efficient engine to ensure no loss of power at high attitudes and an adequate size fuel tank…
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Milestone Games Ltd, which trades as SportPesa, has partnered with Heels4Pads, an internal initiative by the company’s employees dubbed “SisterSpeaks”, to donate sanitary towels worth Sh200,000. The financial support is part of an internal initiative by SportPesa employees who have donated heels in the past month, worth thousands of shillings towards this initiative that batters the shoes in exchange for menstrual pads. The partnership, which is just one of many that SportPesa Foundation is supporting, will effectively help in distributing pads to 400 girls the next two school terms. s“This initiative is driven by our staff,” said SportPesa Foundation’s project…
BY JACOB OKETCH Recent political happenings in the country indicate that leaders have started to position themselves for the 2022 presidential elections. A new alliance comprising ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka, Ford Kenya boss Moses Wetangula and KANU supremo Gideon Moi has emerged. It is believed to have the tacit support of state functionaries. This alliance is largely a group of politicians who honed their skills under the tutelage of the late retired President Daniel Arap Moi. Given that President Uhuru Kenyatta too came from this mould – it gives us an understanding of why he may…
BY EDWIN WANJAWA It is official. The third wave is here. The Government has locked down the five counties of Nairobi, Machakos, Kiambu, Kajiado and Nakuru that bear the highest brunt of the disease in order to flatten the curve and not overwhelm our health facilities. In addition, we are called to maintain the basic Covid-19 safety protocols of social distancing, masking up and regularly washing hands with soap. However, all these are stop gap measures. To get us out of the woods, we need herd immunity and our best shot at that is to get a significant part of…
It is important for educators to ensure their students become empowered to navigate what lies ahead, rather than just prepare them for those jobs that currently exist BY JENNY COETZEE AND ANGELICA OUYA If anyone doubted that the world of work was changing, the pandemic must surely have removed those doubts. Now is the time to ensure that schools are mindful and deliberate in developing those skills which will be in high demand and necessary for success in a reconstituted future. Looking toward the future, schools which have not yet done so, must start focusing on more than academics, and…
BY DAVID ONJILI On the eve of the game, I had predicted that Egypt’s attack would predominantly come from the right and specifically through Salah’s intelligent play exploiting Eric Ouma’s limited defensive abilities. That Salah would replicate what he does for his club, Liverpool FC, tuck inside the right channel and give room to Mohamed Moursy to advance. This overload down the right would deliver dangerous crosses with Hegazi as the target. Well, 90 seconds into the game and Salah had dispossessed Eric Ouma, squared it to the overlapping Ahmed Hegazy who played a diagonal ball into the penalty area.…
BY AAMERA JIWAJI For as long as he can remember, Ibrahim Chitayi had wanted to own a restaurant. It was a dream that began watching his mother prepare meals for her small delivery business from their home kitchen in Mombasa. In January 2020, it seemed that the fates were about to align. Chitayi had collected enough savings to start a restaurant without taking an interest-heavy loan from a bank. He had identified the perfect space to rent, and he had found a chef to prepare the Swahili-fusion meals that he wanted to develop a reputation for among Mtwapa and Shanzu…
BY PETER WANYONYI “We in the World Health Organisation do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of [Covid-19]. The only time we believe lockdowns are justified is to buy you time to reorganise, regroup, rebalance your resources…”. These are the words of Dr David Nabarro, the WHO’s special envoy on Covid-19. He could have been speaking directly to, and about, Kenya. There is no doubting the devastating effects of COVID-19 on individuals. But lockdowns such as the one President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on 27 March simply make the situation worse: as Dr Nabarro said, “Lockdowns just make…
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) board has appointed Ms. Lilian Anyango Nyawanda as Commissioner of Customs and Border Control and Dr Edward Kinyua Karanja as Commissioner of Investigation and Enforcement. This, the authority’s commissioner general said in a media communiqué, is part of an ongoing leadership capacity enhancement programme, adding that the two roles are key pillars in delivering KRA’s vision to be a globally trusted revenue agency facilitating tax and customs compliance. “We are pleased to welcome aboard Commissioners Ms. Lilian Anyango Nyawanda and Dr. Edward Kinyua Karanja in their new roles, which are crucial leadership appointments. The two…
BY JACOB OKETCH This is a collection of poems by Alexander Nderitu, a seasoned Kenyan writer who happens to share a birthday with literary giant William Shakespeare. This collection is unique in several ways. Nderitu writes in such a way that he incorporates various devices in his work. The poems are narrative in form – he employs dialogue in most of his pieces and introduces several characters in his verses. In a sense, his poetry is an amalgamation of narration and versification. Unlike most poets, the author does not go out of his way to economize words to suit the…