BY MICHAEL BALL According to the government’s power development plans, the next decade will see many new solar PV and wind power plants added to the national grid. This new capacity would support in supplying the country’s growing electricity demand, resulting from the continued economic growth and broadening electrification targeted under Vision 2030. The growth of these renewable technologies is expected to deliver considerable benefits to the power sector in the form of lower greenhouse gas emissions, lower baseload utilization of thermal power plants, and reduced dependency on drought susceptible hydropower. Despite these benefits, the high degree of intermittency of…
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Crawford International School has been rated as one of the top ten schools in Kenya by the Excelligent Magazine, an educational paper that researches and highlights institutional groups. It did not only shine because of cutting edge educational and extension programs, school life experiences and leadership but also a wide variety of subjects offered through the Cambridge syllabus. The school recently introduced A level program after achieving good results in the Cambridge IGCSE 2019/20 examinations Besides extension programs such as philosophy for children and leadership, the school has succeeded in offering aviation studies, young innovators, world scholars, Middle School United…
For the 50th year running, motoring event focused on rewarding owners of the best kept cars and motorcycles, Golden Africa Concours d’Elegance, is set to take place at the Nairobi Racecourse on September 26th. Entries received so far are Tumaini Muthiga’s 1967 Ford Taunus and his Morris Marina. He will also be competing with his Harley Davidson which was placed first in the class for over 1200cc street bikes. Another competitor who will be dividing his time between the car judging line and the motorcycle enclosure is Peter Wanday who has entered two Alfa Romeo GTVs and a 1956 BSA.…
The 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results officially released Thursday show that 1,179,192 candidates sat the examination in 28,460 centers across the country. While the top candidate, Faith Mumo of Kari-Mwailu School, scored 433 marks out of 500, it is important to note that 8,091 scored more than 400 marks compared to 9673 in 2019. Yvette Wesonga and Angel Gakenia of Chogoria Girls and Maseno Girls boarding school respectively tied at position two with 432 marks. According to Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha, the learners performed better amidst Covid-19 pandemic that put them in a tight corner for…
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…
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.…
