OPINION: Sanitary pads will encourage girls to stay in school

By Guest Writer,

By Alvin Mwangi According to the World Bank, At least 500 million women and girls globally lack adequate facilities for menstrual hygiene managemen...

Menstrual health , sanitary pads

WAIHIGA: No emails or zoom calls, Uganda is voting

By Waihiga Mwaura,

What does it mean to be unable to access online banking for at least four days? What if the only way you could pay for your electricity was online ...

Bobi Wine , Uganda elections , yoweri museveni

OPINION: Private energy generators hold the key to cheaper electricity in Kenya

By Guest Writer,

By Jeremy Gitonga The raging debate on why more Kenyans are embracing alternative energy sources to escape the Kenya Power Limited high tariffs is ...

energy

OPINION: Why affordable housing is a game changer

By Guest Writer,

Home ownership in Kenya has generally been reserved for wealthy individuals with considerable disposable income and for bankers who have access to loa...

DIAZ: Finally some light at the end of the tunnel

By Guest Writer,

Just a few months back, we feared the worst for the world economies. As the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged through developed economies to hit at the hea...

coronavirus , Kenya economy , safe flights

BWIRE: Players in education sector should allow for alternative data sources

By Victor Bwire,

For a long time, the issue of allowing alternative ways of generating and collecting data to supplement government convention ways of data collection ...

education , ICAN

BWIRE: Education tool to help assess learners progress ahead of SDGs deadline

By Guest Writer,

With just 10 years to go before 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), experts are various of the 17 identified sectors...

SDG

OPINION: COVID-19 response is everyone’s business

By Guest Writer,

The specter of COVID-19 has developed from a public health emergency to a global economic crisis. In Africa, despite relatively low infection rates...

AMREF , coronavirus , COVID-19

OPINION: This should be the new normal when protecting our natural capital

By Guest Writer,

By Major (Rtd) Steve Leakono Sun Tzu, one of the greatest military strategists and a renowned philosopher said that the greatest victory is that wh...

OPINION: It’s been 3 weeks since we heard from MPs after Kenya confirmed first COVID-19 case

By Yvonne Okwara,

It’s been 3 weeks since we reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19. It’s also been 3 weeks since we heard from our Members of Parliament. ...

coronavirus , COVID-19

Opinion: Turnover Tax will expand the tax-base, and ease the tax burden

By Citizen Reporter,

Thursday 20th February 2020, made history as Kenya joined other African countries in successfully taxing the informal sector through the first collect...

Turnover Tax (TOT) , Turnover tax kenya

BWIRE: Let us have clean energy-powered festivities

By Victor Bwire,

Its holiday time and as Kenyans troop to the villages, eating will be a major menu on the schedules. As it were, goats, chicken and bulls will be slau...

BWIRE: Why Nairobi light rail system is the best option

By Benjamin Muriuki,

By Victor Bwire Hey wait a minute. How does the Nairobi City urban plan look like? Is it there in the first place? While the Government, mostly...

SGR

BWIRE: Why Universal Health Coverage will remain a pipe dream

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire While the intent to provide health care to Kenyans is evident, things on the ground are different; the current state of policy conf...

Beyond Zero Campaign , Universal Health Coverage

OPINION: Why trusted identities key to sustainable social & economic growth in Africa

By Benjamin Muriuki,

By Antoine Grenier African countries are looking to provide legal identity to all of their citizens so they can step up their continuous developmen...

OPINION: Digital skills training is the future of work in Kenya

By Citizen Reporter,

By Liliosa Mbirimi Muturi The Kenyan job market has witnessed technology disruption first-hand. As some top tier institutions enact job cuts, other...

Sponsored: How Zenka Finance became the most preferred non- banking platform in Kenya

By Sponsored,

The digital lending market in Kenya has been expanding rapidly since the world's first digital credit solution was launched. Soon, it became the domin...

Fintech businesses , Non-banking platform , Zenka Finance

BWIRE: Nairobi Media Summit should focus on accountability

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire Uncertain future, shattered careers, tensed and worried families, frozen bank accounts, isolated formerly highly connected individu...

Media Summit

BWIRE: Why Africa must face climate change head on

By Citizen,

By Victor Bwire Accelerated effects of climate change including prolonged droughts are taking a toll on the economies of people in the Great Horn o...

Sponsored: Transform your property today

By Sponsored,

By Gitonga Muriithi Whether you are aiming to enjoy the home you are living in more or looking to increase the resale value of your property in the...

Centum Real Estate